Nathaniel Joshua Sevilla
Garden Grove,CA
Summary
Compassionate spiritual care professional with experience in providing emotional and spiritual support to patients and families in hospice settings. Strong focus on team collaboration, adaptability, and achieving meaningful outcomes. Skilled in grief counseling, patient advocacy, and end-of-life care, with calm and empathetic demeanor that fosters trust and comfort.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Hospice Chaplain
Green Meadows Hospice
09.2023 - Current
- Responsible for spiritual care services to patients and family/caregivers. Acquires and documents spiritual assessments, facilitates individualized plan of care, coordinates with community chaplains and spiritual counselors, attends patient care conferences/IDT, provides consultation, education, to interdisciplinary group on spiritual care. Recruits chaplains, priests, pastors, other spiritual leaders to meet patients care and need, provides funeral and memorials for patients, and works with HospiceMD.
Associate District Pastor
Orange & Anaheim SDA Church
01.2020 - Current
- Duties include leading the church board of leader monthly meetings, organizing for finance committee meetings, create annual master preaching calendar and preach weekly, facilitate and delegate small groups, give various types of bible studies including baptismal studies, home and hospital visitations and funerals to members member families and cold calls from community, facilitates needs based community outreach programs- AA for men and women overeaters anonymous, etc, yearly public evangelism, and all things ministry oriented both inreach and outreach.
Hospice Chaplain
Infinite Care Hospice
09.2023 - 10.2024
- Responsible for spiritual care services to patients and family/caregivers. Acquires and documents spiritual assessments, facilitates individualized plan of care, coordinates with community chaplains and spiritual counselors, attends patient care conferences/IDT, provides consultation, education, to interdisciplinary group on spiritual care. Recruits chaplains, priests, pastors, other spiritual leaders to meet patients care and need, provides funeral and memorials for patients, and works with HospiceMD.
Hospice Chaplain
Valley Community Hospice
03.2023 - 06.2024
- Responsible for spiritual care services to patients and family/caregivers. Acquires and documents spiritual assessments, facilitates individualized plan of care, coordinates with community chaplains and spiritual counselors, attends patient care conferences/IDT, provides consultation, education, to interdisciplinary group on spiritual care. Recruits chaplains, priests, pastors, other spiritual leaders to meet patients care and need, provides funeral and memorials for patients, and works with HospiceMD.
‘Cruise-with-a-Mission’ Director
Center of Youth Evangelism (CYE)
01.2020 - 01.2023
- “Cruise with a Mission” is a nonprofit organization established in 2007 at Andrews University Theological Seminary in Berrien Springs, MI to grow and expand the faith of young adults across the western world. We take an annual week cruise, worship each night, and do mission work at every port stop. This is ‘cruising with a mission.’ We recruit, gather, and mobilize young adults from around North America and Canada and beyond through our 10 sister universities, churches across the country, and everything in between. New friendships are born, faith is reignited, the seeds of service are planted, and the locals are forever grateful. The director coordinates the leadership team, communicates with Holland America Cruise Line, and works with administrators at all union church headquarters levels, all 10 university campus missions teams, and local community nonprofits.
Associate Young Adult & Family Pastor
Laguna Niguel SDA Church
01.2016 - 01.2020
- Duties include annual vision casting with Pastor Team for the church board of leaders, facilitates annual budget with finance committee, monthly preaching, leads small groups directed for young adults and young families, writes and gives bible studies directly for young adults and young families, home and hospital visitations to elder members of the church and young families, partners with existing ministries to execute community outreach events (Spanish ministry Health Fair, vacation bible school to community, blood drives 2x a year, Grief Share with community, rotating speaker for public evangelism, and all things ministry oriented both inreach and outreach.
Academy PE teacher & Campus Chaplain
Victor Valley Academy K-8th grade
08.2014 - 06.2016
- Teach, organize, and sponsor T-ball, kickball, Volleyball, basketball, and soccer. Give counsel to students and connects families to school and church.
Associate Pastor for Youth
Victorville SDA Church
01.2012 - 01.2016
- Duties include annual vision casting with senior pastor in preparation with church board leaders, participates in annual budget with pastoral team for finance committee, preaching monthly, leading small groups with youth and families, topical/ doctrinal/ and needs based bible studies for youth and their families, home and hospital visitations to elderly and sick church members and funerals, food and clothing pantry for homeless and community outreach, counsel homeless and at risk individuals in need, participates on pastoral team for annual public evangelism, and all things ministry oriented both inreach and outreach.
Associate District Youth Pastor
Celebration Center and Riverside Community Church
05.2012 - 09.2012
- Duties include participating in church vision casting for the church board, participates in finance committee plans and discussions, weekly preaching to at-risk youth and monthly preaching to congregation, leads weekly small groups to youth, bible study topics of all kinds-doctrine/needs based topics, home and hospital visitations to church members and the sick, and all things ministry oriented both inreach and outreach.
Volunteer Youth Pastor
South Bend First SDA Church
01.2010 - 01.2012
- Duties include observing pastoral team vision casting for the year through the church board, observes finance committee discussions on budgets and annual goals, monthly preaching, leads Youth/Young Adult Sabbath School small groups, bible studies to youth, and all things ministry oriented both inreach and outreach.
‘Fusion’ Worship Director
Andrews University
08.2009 - 05.2010
- Andrews University’s student body gathers monthly for a ‘Fusion’ Friday night worship experience of all 10+ ministry clubs for a powerful revival experience. Director works with all ministry club leaders and campus administrators to cast vision for the year, theme, participants, and works with media and tech teams. These Friday Night Vespers require recruiting, training, encouraging, maintaining, and directing ushers to open doors, take tickets, direct seating, collect offering, and pray for worshipers as needed.
Volunteer Youth Pastor
Rancho Cucamonga SDA Church
01.2008 - 01.2009
- Duties include participating in annual visioning with pastoral team and with the church board, observes finance committee making annual budgets and financial plans, monthly preaching to congregation, leading small groups to youth, bible studies for baptism, doctrine, and needs based and all things ministry oriented both inreach and outreach.
Home-Base Ministries Leader
La Sierra University Club Ministries Team
09.2007 - 01.2008
- La Sierra University Club Ministries Team aka “Home-Base Ministry” is the place students can call ‘home’ to connect to Jesus and each other. We are the official university’s traveling ministry of students that leads worship on campus and to local churches in need of leading a worship service; we do the preaching, Children’s Story, Prayer, Skits, and Worship Music, and whatever else is needed.
Education
Board Certified Chaplain -
World Spiritual Health Organization
08.2025
Masters of Divinity - Masters of Divinity, New Testament
Andrews University Theological Seminary
Berrien Springs, MI05-2012
Bachelor’s of Arts - Religious Studies/ Pre-Seminary, Biblical Languages
La Sierra University
Riverside, CA06-2009
Skills
- Spiritual care
- Pastoral care
- Crisis Intervention
- Grief support
- Homiletics
- Active listening
- Public speaking
- Community outreach
- Cultural Sensitivity
- Confidentiality
- Leadership
- Adaptability
Certification
- Board Certified Chaplain Completed 5 CPE Unit, August 2025 World Spiritual Health Organization
- Green Meadows Hospice January 2025-March 2025. Temporary Bereavement Coordinator
- Life Insurance Agent 2021-March 2025. Revolution Financial Management CEO: Johanna Mockett
- Ordained Minister April 2018 Southeastern California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
- Marriage Counselor 2015-Present. Prepare and Enrich Training https://www.prepare-enrich.com/facilitators/
- Victorville School Chaplain 2014-2016. Spoke with parents and students on issues related to faith, school, and home dynamics. While being the bridge between school and home, was also a ladder heavenward for spiritual discussions.
- Funeral Officiant 2012-Present. Conducted over a dozen funerals through church experience while ministering to families, unchurched, and community seeking pastor presence and last rites.
- Spiritual Counselor 2011-Present. Counseling Education Minor-Andrews University-Master’s Units. Counsel youth and family; Relational, Familial, Substance abuse, and suicidal thoughts.
Languages
Spanish
Limited Working
Timeline
Hospice Chaplain
Green Meadows Hospice
09.2023 - Current
Hospice Chaplain
Infinite Care Hospice
09.2023 - 10.2024
Hospice Chaplain
Valley Community Hospice
03.2023 - 06.2024
Associate District Pastor
Orange & Anaheim SDA Church
01.2020 - Current
‘Cruise-with-a-Mission’ Director
Center of Youth Evangelism (CYE)
01.2020 - 01.2023
Associate Young Adult & Family Pastor
Laguna Niguel SDA Church
01.2016 - 01.2020
Academy PE teacher & Campus Chaplain
Victor Valley Academy K-8th grade
08.2014 - 06.2016
Associate District Youth Pastor
Celebration Center and Riverside Community Church
05.2012 - 09.2012
Associate Pastor for Youth
Victorville SDA Church
01.2012 - 01.2016
Volunteer Youth Pastor
South Bend First SDA Church
01.2010 - 01.2012
‘Fusion’ Worship Director
Andrews University
08.2009 - 05.2010
Volunteer Youth Pastor
Rancho Cucamonga SDA Church
01.2008 - 01.2009
Home-Base Ministries Leader
La Sierra University Club Ministries Team
09.2007 - 01.2008
Board Certified Chaplain -
World Spiritual Health Organization
Masters of Divinity - Masters of Divinity, New Testament
Andrews University Theological Seminary
Bachelor’s of Arts - Religious Studies/ Pre-Seminary, Biblical Languages
La Sierra University