How We Serve
The vice president for Multilingual Ministries is dedicated to promote awareness of needs and opportunities in order to reach non-English-speaking communities for Christ. It advocates the establishment of structures among existing multilingual ministries in the conferences with the purpose of maximizing successful methodologies, church resources, and training opportunities. It also sponsors unionwide events and initiatives to inspire an evangelistic movement among believers, congregations, and church leaders. It is our deep desire to see Jesus coming soon. Therefore, depending on the power of the Holy Spirit, we are committed to conclude the work the Lord has entrusted to us.
About José D. Espósito
José D. Espósito serves as vice president for Multilingual Ministries and Evangelism at the Columbia Union.
Espósito is the third son of a family of Seventh-day Adventist missionaries. Having more than 38 years of experience in pastoral ministry, he has served as an evangelist, a director at ADRA, and a youth, Pathfinder and ministerial director in South America.
From 1997–2006, he served in the Potomac Conference as a district pastor and evangelist. In 2007, he was elected as Hispanic Ministries director and Ministerial associate director for Potomac, serving in that capacity for 15 years. He has served in his current position since January 2022.
Espósito has a bachelor’s degree in Theology from the Adventist University of the Plata in Argentina. He also holds a master’s degree in Public Health from the Adventist University of Chile through Loma Linda University (Cali.) In 2010, he finished a doctorate degree in Pastoral Ministry from the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary (Mich.) His doctoral thesis was based on home churches/small groups as a healthy growth model for the church.
He has presented evangelistic series and seminars for pastors and laity in almost every country in North America and South America, as well as places in the Caribbean and Europe. An author, he has published three books and numerous articles in denominational magazines.
Espósito is married to Carmen, a guidance counselor at Chesapeake Conference’s Spencerville Adventist Academy (Md.). They have three adult children: Paolo, who works as a pastor, and daughters Romina and Melisa, both medical doctors.
His passion is to present Christ in evangelistic series, train new evangelists, and involve every person so that evangelism—the Good News—becomes a lifestyle. One of his favorites verses is:
“For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power” (1 Cor. 4:20, AKJV).
Getting in Touch
Office of Multilingual Ministries
Telephone: (410) 997-3414
Vice President for Multilingual Ministries: José D. Espósito
Office: ext. 585
Email: jesposito@columbiaunion.net
Administrative Assistant: Domitila Rosette
Office: ext. 586
Email: drosette@columbiaunion.net