JUVENTAL BALISASA
Adventist University of Africa
Laurel,MD
1
Certification
29
years of professional experience
Short Term: Being a Daily Witness for Christ through competent, committed, and Christlike educational expert services
Long term: Maturing into a Christlike Educator for selfless service to humanity and a citizen of the Kingdom of God
Work History
Education Associate Director
4 MonthsDevelop and evaluate educational resources and systems for alignment with organizational goals and standards of excellence.
Education Director
10 Years 5 MonthsAdjunct Professor
11 Years 5 MonthsAssociate Pastor
6 YearsSenior Chaplain
5 YearsAssistant Professor
12 YearsAssociate Chaplain
3 YearsAmerican High School Certificate-Biology Teacher
3 YearsChurch Pastor
4 YearsAssociate District Pastor
3 YearsAssociate Project Director
3 YearsSenior Chaplain
3 YearsIntegrated Science Teacher
3 YearsAssistant Chaplain
3 YearsMathematics & Integrated Science Teacher
3 YearsScience Teacher
1 YearEducation
MBA - Quality Management Systems & Leadership
PhD - Religious Education (Emphasis on Spirituality in Academic Environment)
M.A - Religion (Emphasis on gender-related issues in family and Gospel ministries)
Ingéniorat d’Etat (BSc/MSc Equivalent) - Agronomy (Emphasis on Plant Organogenesis through In vitro cell culture)
Skills
Computer Literate; adequately familiar with Word
PPT
Excel
Very conversant with Computer Assisted Statistical Analysis packages (especially SPSS) for qualitative & quantitative research
Experienced in e-learning and e-teaching
Strategic Planning and Proposal Writing
Plant amelioration
and Agricultural & Rural development
and small-business advisory
Ability to work under pressure and no supervision
Premarital & Family counseling writer and TV speaker
Ability to adapt to several working conditions
Efficient analysis of academic systems
and processes
Accomplishments
- Developed 70 different educational lectures/seminars/workshops and presented them in more than 100 educational seminars/advisories/workshops within and without the WAD territories
- Successfully coordinated the training of 30 leadership trainers across the WAD territory in collaboration with the Global Leadership Institute of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
- Streamlined the WAD policies for the creation and management of schools at all levels
- Organized 15 successful Division-wide leadership seminars that brought together a total of 1580 Church field officers, Pastors, and institutional leaders between 2022 and 2025
- Organized a very successful Division-wide Faith & Science Conference that gathered 1601 participants for 10 days in 2023
- Carried out over 50 educational advisories in 17 countries within the WAD territory
- Drafted the WAD strategic framework for 2020-2025, coordinated its development, and supervised its implementation in the Unions from 2020 to 2022
- Conducted research and presented results at various forums on the following themes:
- 2016-2018: appraisal of WAD education policies and their impact on institutional health (presented at the WAD Executive committee year-end meeting, April 2028).
- 2018-2019: Children's ministries leaders’ perceptions on the impact of home leadership on children's wholistic education (presented at the several forums including the WAD-wide children's ministries congress)
- 2019-2020: Secondary school Students' perceptions on the impact of home ethos on their educational success (presented at educational advisories in WAD)
- 2022-2023: Comparative study of ministerial performance and its impact on stewardship and membership retention in WAD (presented at several forums including the Union Presidents' council, 2023)
- 2023-2024: Perceptions of Adventist teachers on the impact of working conditions in Adventist schools on their calling and commitment (Excerpts presented at several teachers' conventions/congresses in ECD and SID)
- 2024-2025: Youth's perceptions on parents as role models for their children (shared with WAD youth department; yet to be presented in the public)
- Provided training to institutions (AUA, AUC, AUWA, VVU) of higher learning on the creation and Implementation of Spiritual Master Plan
- Guided higher educational institutions in WAD toward academic expansion through the introduction of more than 50 new academic programs, including cutting edge ones such as LLM & PhD Law, Engineering, MSc. One Health.
- Provided several orientation sessions to Governing Councils, and new Administration teams in higher education within WAD.
- Coached local churches through proposal writing for establishment of new school, adult literacy, and city centers of influence resulting in $450,000 grants from higher organization of the Church.
- Guided Missions and Conferences toward the establishment of nearly 100 new schools between 2017 and 2024
- Successfully coordinated over 20 higher-education accreditation visits in WAD, service as visiting-team secretary.
Certification
Pastoral: ordained minister of the Gospel (2003)
LANGUAGES
Satisfactorily speak, write, and understand French, English, and Kinyarwanda
Fairly understand, speak, read, and write Asante Twi and Kiswahili
Moderately read, write, and understand Latin
Basic knowledge in biblical Hebrew and Greek
Interests
Music Composition
Reading & Writing
Swimming/Playing Basketball
Research
Timeline
Education Associate Director
General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
02.2026 - CurrentRead More
Education Director
WAD
01.2016 - CurrentRead More
Associate Pastor
Bethel Church, Abidjan
01.2016 - 01.2022Read More
Adjunct Professor
Adventist University of Africa
01.2015 - CurrentRead More
Senior Chaplain
Valley View University
01.2011 - 01.2016Read More
Associate Chaplain
Valley View University
01.2008 - 01.2011Read More
American High School Certificate-Biology Teacher
Valley View University
01.2005 - 01.2008Read More
Assistant Professor
Valley View University
01.2004 - 01.2016Read More
Church Pastor
Valley View University
01.2004 - 01.2008Read More
Associate District Pastor
Bekwai, Ghana
01.2001 - 01.2004Read More
Associate Project Director
South-Central Ghana Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
01.2001 - 01.2004Read More
Senior Chaplain
SDASS, Ashanti Bekwai
01.2001 - 01.2004Read More
Integrated Science Teacher
SDASS, Ashanti Bekwai
01.2001 - 01.2004Read More
Assistant Chaplain
ASTS, Techiman B/A, Ghana
01.1998 - 01.2001Read More
Mathematics & Integrated Science Teacher
Adventist Secondary Technical School, Techiman B/A, Ghana
01.1998 - 01.2001Read More
Science Teacher
SDA Preparatory School, Techiman, B/A
01.1997 - 01.1998Read More
Université Mouloud Mammeri de Tizi Ouzou
Ingéniorat d’Etat (BSc/MSc Equivalent) from Agronomy (Emphasis on Plant Organogenesis through In vitro cell culture)
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Andrews University
M.A from Religion (Emphasis on gender-related issues in family and Gospel ministries)
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Andrews University
PhD from Religious Education (Emphasis on Spirituality in Academic Environment)
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National Institute of Business Management
MBA from Quality Management Systems & Leadership
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SAMPLES OF INVOLVEMENT IN ADVENTIST EDUCATION
- April 2025: Speaker at the Zambia-Zimbabwe Twin Teacher’s Convention where I made several presentations on campus industries and the etiquette of true Adventist educators
- April 2025: Main speaker at the Teachers' Seminar at Adventist Hope Community Church in Kajiado County, within the Nairobi Metropolitan Region where I made several Presentations on how to manage homes and churches as schools.
- December 2024: Speaker at the teachers’ convention of the East-Central Africa Division where I made presentations on educational policy and school management dynamics in Africa
- July-August 2024: Evangelistic campaign in Rwanda resulting in 63 baptisms
- December 2023: Speaker at the teachers’ convention of the Southern Africa and Indian Ocean Division where I made presentations on faith-integration in education (IFL, IFT, IFS).
- December 2023: Commencement speaker at Helderberg College of Higher Education
- December 2022: Participated accreditation visit to Malawi Adventist university in the Southern Africa and Indian Ocean
- 2020-2021: online ministry to African families and their erring youth in the diaspora through educational and spiritual counseling during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- 2021-Date: Member of the board of the Hidden Treasurer International, Inc.-a USA-based non-profit organization that seeks to assist schools in Africa to utilize their lands for financial sustainability and support for needy students
- November 2019: Member of accreditation visit teams to 4 institutions (Asia-Pacific International University, Naga View College, Mountain View College) in the Southern Asia Pacific Division
- January 2019: Daily Devotional speaker at the GCAS' weeklong retreat in Dal-Es-Salam on the theme with presentations on auditing services in the context of the Investigative Judgment.
- August 2018: Workshop on Integration of faith and teaching at Adventist university of Central Africa (AUCA)
- July 2017: Evangelistic campaign in the Southeast London SDA church (UK) resulting 11 baptisms
- May 2017: Week of Spiritual Emphasis at Adventist University of Central Africa (AUCA)
- February 2017: Main Colloquium speaker at the at Adventist University of Africa (AUA) with presentations on IFT, IFS, IFL
- 2015 to date: Adjunct professor at AUA where I have been regularly teaching Issues in Religion and Science & and sometimes Leadership and Spirituality at AUA where I have also served as primary advisor on several theses and dissertations
- February 2014: Guest speaker at the Pastors and Elders' Retreat of the Southern England Conference on the theme
- July 2012: Guest speaker at the All Nations Church in California on the Church's 20th anniversary celebration
- July-August 2011: Evangelistic campaign and Camp Meeting speaker in the Netherlands and Germany
- August 2009-2016: Preached in several church in the USA including south Dakota, Allegheny East Conference, and Michigan Conference
PUBLISHED BOOKS
- Whom Shall I Marry? (Book, 2015, 2025)
- Change your World (Book, 2014, 2025)
- Witnessing for Christ: Key to Spiritual Personal Growth (Book, 2014)
- Sugardaddism: The Mysteries of Bitter Sugar (Book, 2014, 2025)
- Topnotch Tetragrammatic Transformation: An Imperative for Young African Intellectuals (Book, 2009)
- Exhaustive Notes on Integrated Science for Senior Secondary School (Textbook, 2002)
SAMPLE ARTICLES ON KEY ISSUES IN ADVENTISM
- The Mustard-seed Principle for post-Covid19 educational revamping (Paper presented at the SID Higher Education Advisory, Harare, March 2026)
- The Tripod of Transformational Training for the 21st Century (Paper presented at the Zimbabwe-Zambia SDA Teachers' Convention, April 2025)
- Toward harmonizing strategic planing and spiritual master planning for wholistic growth in faith-based higher education institutions (Paper presented at Adventist University of Africa, April 2024)
- New educational trends in Africa: Implications for repositioning private education for meaningful partnership (Paper presented at ECD Teachers' Convention in Arusha, December 2023)
- Eschatological perspective on the Faith-and/or-Science debate (Paper presented at the Faith and Science Conference, Babcock University, 2023)
- Critical components of character building for effective integration of faith and learning (Paper presented at Naga View College, November 2019)
- Parental Role in developing essentials leadership skills in children (Paper presented at the WAD Children Ministries Convention, Abidjan March 2018)
- Contextualizing vs. Syncretizing Biblical Hermeneutics: A Critical Reflection on the Leading Trends in Africa (Conference paper at Adventist University of Africa, September 2017)
- Jesus' Baptism as springboard for Integration of Faith and Teaching (Paper presented at the Theological Seminary, Andrews University, June 2015)
- The Technicalities of effective Implementation of Integration of Faith and Teaching (Paper presented at the Valley View University Faculty Orientation, August 2014)
- Mysticism and the Christian Religious Experience (American Psychological Journal, June 2012)
- Perceptions of Seventh-day Adventist Pastors on the Ordination of Women as deaconesses: A case Study in West Africa (Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Board of Ministerial and theological Education, Ilishan-Rhemo, Ogun State, Nigeria, February 2012)
- Transphrastic Analysis of Genesis 1 & 3: Theological implications for ecological models in the 21st century (Presented in Greece, June 3, 2011, at the International Conference on Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics; Published in 2012)
- The Impact of Evolutionary Thought on Morality in Education: A Reflection on Christian Higher Education in West Africa (Paper presented at the International Conference on Higher Education, Accra, October 2011)
- Elements of Continental Shift in Genesis 1: 9, 10 and 7: 11(Published in VVUJT, May 2011)
- “Man in Our Image according to our likeness” as a Condition Sine Qua Non for Viable Ecological Models in Africa: A Transphrastic Analysis of Genesis 1:1-2:3 (presented at the Annual Conference of the Ghana Association of Biblical Exegetes, February 2011)
- Vashti’s Deposition: A Critical Reflection on Woman’s Dignity In the Bible and African Society (paper presented at the Ghana Association of Biblical Exegetes, GABES, 2008)
- Creationism and Evolution: Common Challenges for Further Explorations (paper presented at Loma Linda University—California, 2007)
- Toward Reconciliation Between 1 Peter 3:1 And the Current Quest for Gender Equality (Article in The Integrator, Valley View Publications, 2006)