South Central conference Executive Committee voted to assign Pastor Debleaire Snell to serve the Oakwood University Church as its 22^nd Senior Pastor.  Pastor Snell follows Dr. Carlton P. Byrd, who accepted a call to the Southwest Region Conference last May.  Pastor Snell recently served as senior pastor of the two campuses of the First Seventh-day Adventist Church (First Church and “The Bridge”) in Huntsville, Alabama.  His dynamic ministry has enhanced the members and the community over the past eleven years. Pastor Snell was also names as the Breath of Life Ministries Speaker/ Director-elect in July.