Recognizing Lives of Dedication in the Mountain View Conference

Story by Liz Bailey

Recently, the Mountain View Conference (MVC) celebrated ordination services for three of its pastors.

When Tony Garcia accepted God’s call to ministry, he and his family attended Change School of Evangelism, a program at Burman University in Canada. There, they embraced a passion for personal ministry. Garcia went on to serve as a Bible worker, assistant pastor and senior pastor, eventually becoming the director of MVC’s Personal Ministries Department. Recently ordained, he also pastors the Grace Outreach church in Logan, W.Va.

Jeremy Garlock, pastor of the Boulevard church in Charleston, W.Va., was also recently ordained (see above). Garlock entered the ministry at the New York Conference in 2001. For 14 years, Garlock served as a multigrade teacher and then as a teaching principal of a one-teacher Adventist school. Along with two other families, he also planted a new church in Baldwinsville, N.Y. In 2015, he became the Education superintendent and associate youth director for the New York Conference. In 2019, Garlock spent two years in the Pennsylvania Conference as Education superintendent and then moved back to the New York Conference for three years, serving as the Union Springs Academy principal, pastor of the Baldwinsville church and Education superintendent before accepting a call to the MVC. In this role, he serves as Youth and Young Adult Ministries director and Education superintendent.

The most recent pastor ordained is Miguel Bernedo, who comes to MVC from Arequipa, Peru. Bernedo served as a literature evangelist for one year in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador, and then studied theology at the Peruvian Union University, where he graduated in 2016. He also worked four years at the Ellen G. White Research Center in Peru. His first position at MVC was in the cities of Charleston and Lewisburg, establishing new Hispanic churches.

Currently, Bernedo serves as a pastor of the Spencer and Ripley church in West Virginia, and pastor of the Parkersburg (W.Va.) Spanish church plant.