Ramiro Cano Re-elected President of Central California Conference

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CLOVIS, CALIF., — DEC. 8, 2019, Central California Conference (CCC) Executive Committee, which convened today, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019, has elected Ramiro Cano as conference president for the ensuing five-year term.

The vote, usually residing on the floor of the constituent body, was referred to the Executive Committee after the 34th-Constituency Session nominating committee of the Central California Conference (convening on Nov. 17, 2019, at Fresno Adventist Academy) was unable to bring a name to the floor before the meeting concluded that day at 5 PM — and the business of electing a president went unselected.

Ramiro Cano, president for the last nine years, shared the following, “I am humbled and privileged to continue to serve the Central California Conference with the team elected to serve alongside me. We will prayerfully lean on the Lord as He guides our every step to prepare a people for His soon return.”

Officers elected on Nov. 17 are as follows: Ronald Rasmussen, Executive Secretary; Mayra Thompson, Treasurer; Antonio Huerta, VP for Ministries; and Jounghan “Justin” Kim, associate executive secretary. Elected Directors are as follows: James Scarborough, African American Ministries; Manuao Maui’a, Asian Pacific Ministries; and Ricardo Viloria, Hispanic Ministries.

This press release was written by Cindy Chamberlin, Vice President for Communication, Central California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and originally appeared on the CCC’s website.

Image courtesy of the CCC.

Further Reading:

“Central California Conference Constituency Meeting Ends without the Election of a President” by Bonnie Dwyer, November 19, 2019

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A president imposed by executive committee against the will of constituency. I think Ricardo Graham could have called for a new constituency session. There are problems with this :

  1. Executive committee is conference employees plus lay members but there are more employees than lay members .
  2. Cano will serve a divided constituency, really divided .

The thirst for power is too much . They needed to bring someone who could bring unity to the conference.

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No such person exists, I think, because the conference consists of the ultra-conservative Central Valley and the usually-progressive San Francisco Bay Area.

There is little in common between the two areas.

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#4

Perhaps choosing a person who can do the least harm might be the best option…

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I don’t know what all the issues are,
BUT perhaps there might be allowed a lot of Autonomy to
EACH congregation in certain areas.
Letting Progressives progress.
Letting Conservatives be constrained on how their
congregations operate and allow.

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#6

I believe this is the Conference where Doug is building his
“School of Theology”.
He has a huge following.

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#7

The veracity of that statement would depend on the constitution or bylaws governing election of CCCSDA officials. My bet would be that the bylaws state if the constituency is unable to elect a president, Vice president, etc., the responsibility reverts to the Executive Committee. If that’s the case, and the constituency doesn’t like it, then it would be their responsibility to make sure the issue is placed on the agenda for the next constituency session.

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#8

DB is in Northern California Conference. Central California is when SB is. And South Eastern California is where Randy Roberts is , Southern California is where Ryan Bell was.

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#9

They should consider “redistricting” … :innocent:

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“Me Too!”
–18-19-20

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We don’t know if it was against the will of the constituency because the name was not brought to the constituency delegates for a vote opportunity. It was against the will of the nominating committee. The CCC bylaws offer clear protocol for resolving the issue when an officer position remains vacant at the end of the constituency meeting.

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The session delegates with policy manuals knews that failure to elect the next president would revert to the EXCOM

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#13

I would have preferred that the people have taken that vote. But CCC is a strange group of people. They were given the option of having more time to elect a president and they voted that motion down .So they got what they deserve.They should have explained to the constituency why they were not bringing Cano name: Nepotism , too old ?He is at least 70!

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#14

“…as He guides our every step to prepare a people for His soon return.”
What exactly will the conference administration be doing to prepare people? Reducing committee meetings? Abolishing tithing because it’s not needed in the light of the “soon coming”? Annulling fundamental statements? Voting equality for women? Will there be equality for women in heaven? It might be a better idea to have a separate heaven for women. After all, women are inherently highly-strung, fickle and fidgety. No women should be allowed into the male headship community to threaten their sound judgment and tempt them to eat apples off forbidden trees. Oh dear!! I’m digressing.

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#15

This is true, but if the constituency had wanted the status quo, it would have voted to continue him in office. It did not.

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By re-electing the former President, people are asking for just more of the same. Whatever was done before “to prepare people,” should be expected to be done again. …

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In the end it doesn’t matter what the constituency wanted because they were schizophrenic in their desires and effectively voted for nothing. The bylaws governing the process played out and the constituency got what they didn’t want by default. The results of their own inability to decide.

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John –
In addition it FURTHER DIVIDED the SDA church congregations
in the Conference.
Weakening the “work” effort without promoting the goals and
objectives of the spread of the Gospel in that area of America.

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It was not an inability to decide.

It was an inability to for those wanting change to amass a group large enough to persuade those that wanted the status quo. Thus, those wanting to change the status quo were prevented from moving forward by a minority of those wanting the status quo to remain intact. And when they successfully blocked change, it reverted to the committee to do what could not be done at the constituency meeting: Keep the status quo.

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All of which amounts to an inability to decide. You can’t have it both ways. They. Didn’t. Decide. They couldn’t decide. They were unable to come to a decision. No decision was made. The meeting closed with a prayer and no decision. It was an inability to decide! LOL

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