Pastor Alberto Frederico

Pastor Alberto Frederico, our new associate pastor
for evangelism, comes to us from the Hacienda Heights
Adventist Church where he served 13 years as senior
pastor. All of his pastoral service since 1977 has been
assignments here in Southern California.

He sees his assignment here as one of support to
pastor del Pozo; taking on such tasks and assignments
as seem best to our senior pastor. They have worked
together on a team recently, helping plan and bring
about a series of revival meetings in West Covina.
Pastor del Pozo preached there and pastor Frederico
was in charge of the platform.
Prior to that, Pastor Ben helped pastor Albert conduct
a bi-lingual funeral service. Although pastor Albert was
born in a Mexican-American family, he was not taught
fluent Spanish. He says it was the prevailing thought
at that time and regrets not speaking Spanish more
capably. In fact, his parents were raised in Boyle Heights,
attending nearby Roosevelt High School.
Pastor Albert told the WMC Blog that he is enjoying
his various assignments at our Church and getting
acquainted with the many members. One of his most
enjoyable tasks is to teach a class on "Basics of Our
Beliefs" during Sabbath school. Also every Sabbath
morning he can be found directing the Children's
Story Hour during Worship Services. He looks forward
to begin training others to take over this duty. He is
also heavily involved in the afternoon "Praise Service"
called "Worship at the White." Then his Sabbath activities
are rounded up by going to the hospital to participate in
the singing band that brings Christian cheers to hospital
patients.

When reached for this article, he was just finished with
the Tuesday evening "Prayer Meeting." He conducts
this meeting every week and is teaching through Matthew
24 and 25, Jesus preparation of His disciples for the last
days. The attendees seem to really enjoy the meeting,
but pastor Albert thinks he gets as much from it as they
do because their questions and remarks are so "insightful
and spiritually minded."

Don Molander and Pastor Albert are collaborating on
preparations for the weekend evangelistic series featuring
Amazing Facts speaker Doug Batchelor. While it has been
announced for November 19, it was just moved up to
Friday and Sabbath, November 12 and 13.

Pastor Albert's wife is the former Linda Ludden. She
was born in Japan of missionary parents, but she is not
Japanese. She works as a nurse anesthetist at the Veterans
Administration Hospital in Los Angeles. She enjoys having
the church located right on her way home from work. The
Fredericos make their home in Arcadia, in the San Gabriel
Valley. They have two sons: Joel is a physics graduate
student at Stanford University; Jon is a physical therapy
graduate student at Loma Linda University.
The WMC Blog asked Pastor Albert what he believes
our strongest asset to be. He insisted that we talk first
about the strongest asset of all Seventh Day Adventist
churches. "Our message and mission is sharply defined
by the Lord Jesus, uniquely prepared for the events of
the Last Days in which we live." Specifically he sees that
we here at the WMC have a great location to meet the
needs of our neighbors. He says he has been very impressed
with the church's commitment to young people.
He told the WMC Blog: "I thoroughly enjoyed the
Adventurers and Pathfinders investiture and celebration
dinner. And I really think the Urban Embrace summer
camp is great."

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