Meet Our Pastoral Staff
Our Pastor
Pastor Jim Berglund and family
Pastor Jim Berglund joined the Caldwell Church family in January of 2008. He came to us from the Valley View Seventh-day Adventist Church in Medford, Oregon. Pastor Jim his wife Shelly and children Shelina, JaLynn and Josh.
Pastor Jim has also pastored in the Washington and Idaho Conferences. He has a bachelor's degree in theology from Walla Walla College and a master's of divinity from Andrews University. He is currently working on his doctorate.
At sixteen years of age, Pastor Jim fell in love with Jesus. He shares, "Overwhelmed with joy, I felt drawn to share with others the One who gave me purpose for living. This is how God called me to ministry. My personal mission: To have for myself a deep personal transforming experience with Christ, to lose self to the point that others experience Christ through me, and to encourage others in their next step with Jesus."
Associate Pastoral Staff
Youth and Children's Ministries Director
Joshua Ro
A June, 2011, graduate of Walla Walla University with a bachelor of science in psychology, Josh is taking a year out of his schooling to spend with us. He feels this will be good preparation for his next stop: law school. His family home is in Tacoma, Washington, and is the oldest of two boys born into a SDA family. The activities that he enjoys personally - reading, personal fitness, outdoor activities, and working on cars should be a good fit for his sojourn here in Idaho.
He comes with a good background for working with our youth. To help defray university expenses, he worked with youht at SDA elementary and high schools levels and at an alternative school in Walla Walla, WA.
His goals for the program here include increasing youth attendance at group activities and helping to build a cohesive group of young people in love with Jesus and all that means in their lives.
Board of Elders
Head Elder
Additional responsibilities of the head elder: work closely with the pastor for organization of the elders and for meeting agendas, coordinate the work of the elders according to their various abilities, schedule and chair meetings of the elders, and schedule platform duties for the elders.
Troy Voth currenty serves as the head elder in the Caldwell SDA church. He has been a Seventh-day Adventist his entire life and credits his mother, Christian education and reading both the Desire of Ages and Great Controversy by Adventist pioneer Ellen G. White in sixth grade for the base for his continued walk with Christ. He has served in various leadership roles: as an elder, teacher or leader in adult and children’s Sabbath school classes, Pathfinder leader and adult Sabbath School superintendent. He has also done mission service in Japan and Korea; perhaps inspired by his stint as a student missionary in the Marshall Islands.
He is married to Margie with one teenage daughter and currently works as an English teacher in a local high school. In addition to his family, he has many interests. Many of his hobbies focus on outdoor activities but he also enjoys a good discussion on many different ideas.
Portions of a favorite quote from The Great Controversy, pp. 677, 678 will help to introduce you to Troy. The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire universe is clean One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the vast creation…From the minutest atom to the greatest world, all things, animate and inanimate…declare that God is love.
Elders for Discipleship: Education
Margie Voth, Douglas Miller, Herb Stratton
Margie Voth was born into a Seventh-day Adventist home. In addition to being a high school counselor, she is the mother of one daughter and the wife of Troy Voth. She has served as a teacher in both the Primary and Junior Sabbath Schools and as deaconess. She was a student missionary in the Marshall Islands and an English-as-a-Second-Language teacher in Japan and Korea. As a discipling elder, her specific area of responsibility is education, particularly in relation to adult and children’s Sabbath School ministry.
For fun outside her home, she enjoys “ATV-ing” and snowmobiling. Archeology is a topic of interest and she reads as she has time.
Douglas Miller was also reared as a Seventh-day Adventist and has served in several different areas of church leadership: Pathfinders, business manager, elder, deacon and Sabbath School teacher. He, too, serves as a discipling elder with education for the Sabbath School ministry being his area of specific responsibility.
Doug is married to Jodi, a RN, and has a son and a daughter. He particularly enjoys outdoor activities: camping, sailing, motorcycles, hiking and winter sports. He currently is the office manager for a commercial landscape contractor’s office.
Herb Stratton is a Seventh-day Adventist by birth and choice, being baptized at age 13. Currently retired, he spent 35 years moving household good for pastors, teachers and medical personnel of the Seventh-day Adventist church. He and his wife, Marie, have two grown daughters and three grandchildren. He has served as an elder and SS teacher. His current responsibility as a discipling elder is education associated with Sabbath School ministries.
He enjoys his family and friends, camping, reading and traveling. He occasionally preaches at local, smaller congregations.
Elder for Discipleship: Training
Salvador Aguirre
Salvador Aguirre became part of the Seventh-day Adventist community at age five when his family became members. He and his wife, Diane, are both employed by Pacific Press Publishing Assn. He has served as a Bible worker, in Pathfinders and other youth ministries. As a discipling elder for training his areas of responsibility include, among other things, new member assessment, new ministries development, finding resources for training and spiritual gifts testing.
Salvador is the father of three young daughters. He also enjoying gardening.
Elders for Fellowship:
Thelma Rice, Dave Gatton
Thelma Rice is a retired elementary teacher who has served and continues to serve her curch in many ways: child evangelism, assistant treasurer, investment secretary, visiting and mentoring, and mending for Community Services to name a few. She was an adult convert to the Seventh-day Adventist church as the result of a visit to her home.
She enjoys walking, sewing, knitting, quilting, reading and traveling. She has a grown son and daughter.
Dave Gatton currently works as sales manager at Pacific Press Publishing Association. He and his wife, Cheri, are adult converts as the result of attending an evangelistic series in 1992. They have two married, adult children. Most important to him is family time but when he can get in some golfing or motorcycle time, that is good, too.
He and Thelma share the responsibilities associated with fellowship.
Elder for Worship:
David Jarnes
David Jarnes is an elder for exaltation (worship) serving as an advisor to those involved with the worship services of the church. Several groups use him as their resource: the worship team, those serving in the audio-visual ministry and music for services.
David is works as an editor at Pacific Press Publishing Association and has served the church as a pastor. He and his wife, Jeanne, have two grown children and two grandchildren. He enjoys reading and outdoor activities such as hiking, skiing, boating and camping.
Elders for Ministry:
Sarah Taylor, Len Kelley, Marvin Moore
Sarah Taylor has responsibilities for working with the deaconesses and committees such as for flowers, weddings and showers.
Born in Guatamala City, Sarah has had an interesting professional, working for the World Health Organization, and spiritual life. She had never heard of Seventh-day Adventists before meeting her husband Jim. God used her in-laws, SDA schools for her children and at least two evangelists before she accepted the Bible as taught by Seventh-day Adventists. It was a slow process but after making a full commitment she found that she had finally found what she had been looking for all of her life; a God who would fill the emptiness of her heart.
Sarah has four grown children and she enjoys her grandchildren, traveling and reading.
Len Kelley serves the lay workers who are deacons and works with capital development and maintenance of the church facility. Born into a Seventh-day Adventist family, he has served the church in several ways: deacon, adult Sabbath School superintendent and as a Sabbath School class teacher.
Before retirement, Len taught school and worked a variety of trucking jobs. Now he and his wife, Mary, enjoy traveling, camping and spending time with their children and grandchildren.
Marvin Moore serves as chairman of the church board. Born into a Seventh-day Adventist family, he has served his church in a variety of ways both as a lay leader and professionally. He has authored several books and is the editor of the church’s outreach magazine, These Times, published at Pacific Press Publishing Association. He works with church finances and education of members regarding giving and church budget needs.
Married to Lois, he enjoys writing and short-term mission trips to India. They have two grown children.
Elders for Evangelism:
Lois Moore, Casey Baker, Cheri Gatton
Lois Moore was born and reared in a Seventh-day Adventist family and by her own description grew up “loving and serving Jesus.” She has served her community of faith in many ways: personal ministries, community service and outreach and as a RN in health ministries. She and her husband, Marvin, are the parents of two grown children and a granddaughter. She enjoys cooking, sewing and hiking. One of her unique ministries is to travel to India almost every year and educate Indian women basic health measures. She also works closely with Children of India, an organization helping to provide schooling for children.
As an elder, she continues to work with the outreach programs on which she has honed her skills over the years.
Casey Baker was reared a Seventh-day Adventist but states that he and his wife, Marty, accepted Jesus as their Savior in 2002 and were baptized together. He has serves as an adult Sabbath School superintendent and teacher and in personal ministries, reaching out to others to lead them to Jesus. That is the area of responsibility he serves as an elder as well.
Casey and Marty have three children and 8 grandchildren. In the past they have enjoyed camping and day trips to forested areas. He works at Idaho State School and Hospital.
Cheri Gatton, was baptized along with her husband, Dave, as a result of evangelistic meetings in 1992. The intensity with which Cheri lives life has been demonstrated in work in the corporate rat race, as a homeschooling mom and now in various areas of ministry in the Seventh-day Adventist church. She is mom to two married, adult children. She also has a personal speaking ministry to share Jesus with others.
Her responsibilities as an elder are to aid in outreach and specifically she works with the children and youth of the Caldwell church under the umbrella of Youth Ignite.
