Caption: Left to right: Judy R. Glass, G. Alexander Bryant and Kyoshin Ahn, the three NAD officers, pose for a photo after division secretaries and treasurers were voted in on July 8, 2025. | PC: Ronald Pollard
Bryant, the division’s current president, began his presidency in July 2020, when the GC executive committee elected him to replace the late Daniel R. Jackson, who retired on July 1, 2020. Bryant was elected by the General Conference in session in 2022.
Following his election, Bryant shared a few remarks. “I’m very humbled at the opportunity to serve the church here in the North American Division and [by] the confidence that the people, the nominating committee, my [NAD] caucus, and this entire body have placed in me,” he said. “In the [NAD], our theme has been Together in Mission, and I believe the Lord wants us to double down on that,” he continued. “We look forward to every entity in our North American Division territory ... working together to help finish the work so we can go home and see our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
Bryant has served as North American Division president and world church vice president since 2020. From 2008 to 2020, he served as executive secretary of the NAD and associate secretary of the General Conference, after being elected to those positions at the GC Annual Council in Manila, Philippines. Before his tenure at the NAD, he held several leadership positions in the Central States Conference. In 1990, the conference voted him in as temperance director, youth/Pathfinders/National Service Organization director, and superintendent of education. In 1997, he was elected president.
During the morning business meeting on July 8, NAD executive secretary Kyoshin Ahn and treasurer Judy R. Glass were elected to serve another term when session delegates voted to approve the nominating committee recommendations for all 13 division secretaries and treasurers. Ahn and Glass are set to serve the 2025–2030 term.
Ahn has served as NAD secretary since his election in August 2020. He previously served as the NAD’s undersecretary from 2016 to 2020 and associate secretary from 2013 to 2016. Over the past two decades, Ahn has assisted in planting churches for Korean congregations division-wide, trained local church clerks, led seminars and conducted evangelistic campaigns.
His pastoral ministry began in 1995 in the Potomac Conference, where he served until 2001. From June 2001 to October 2005, he served as president of the Korean Churches Association in North America. Before joining the NAD, from 2005 to 2013, Ahn held the role of executive secretary for the Illinois Conference.
Meanwhile, Treasurer Glass grew up in northwest Minnesota on her family’s farm and graduated from Maplewood Academy in Hutchinson, Minnesota. She attended Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in business with emphases in accounting and management.
She started her church career early, completing an internship with GCAS in the Southwestern Union while in college. Her first job after graduation was a brief stint at the Minnesota Adventist Book Center. Glass subsequently spent 15 years in education working at Great Lakes Adventist Academy, College View Academy, and Spring Valley Academy.
Glass began working as the chief financial officer (CFO) for NAD Retirement Plans in 2006, the first to hold this position. While working for Retirement Plans, she completed her MBA. She subsequently worked as the CFO for AdventSource, where she served for 11 years before rejoining the NAD in 2019.
Glass, who was elected in June 2023 and became division treasurer on August 1, 2023, is the first female treasurer of the NAD.
The NAD is the church’s largest division in territory, spanning nine countries and territories and 14 time zones. The NAD has more than 1.3 million members in almost 7,000 congregations, worshiping in more than 50 languages, across Bermuda, Canada, Guam, Micronesia and the United States.
Compiled from articles written by Christelle Agboka, North American Division communication department. More information available at nadadventist.org/news
