Andrews Alumnus Elected as Union President

Marcellus T. Robinson, president of the Allegheny East Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the United States since October 2022, has been elected as the new president of the Columbia Union Conference. The union Executive Committee made the decision at a special session on March 24. Robinson started his new role immediately after the vote, while still serving as president of the Allegheny East Conference for a period of time.

Though he was offered a full-ride baseball scholarship to Virginia State University, Robinson turned it down because the games were on Friday nights and Saturdays. Through a miraculous series of events, he was able to complete a bachelor’s degree in theology and an M.Div. from the Seventh-day Adventist Seminary at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. In 2008, he completed a D.Min. at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary on the same campus.

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