ROSEVILLE, CA—On September 10, Adventist Health announced a '“transformative” 2030 vision that will be implemented by three individuals. The three individuals are Joyce Newmyer, Alex Bryan, and Jason Wells.
Joyce Newmeyer
The bejeweled Joyce Newmyer was raised Adventist. Mrs. Newmeyer was previously the president of Washington Adventist Hospital and is current president of Adventist Health Services in Oregon.
According to NAD Adventist News, she was chosen to be part of this new Transformative 2030 initiative due to her expertise in “diversity, equity and inclusion.” Translation: Leftism, feminism, and leftism.
Alex Bryan
Alex Bryan was chosen to be part of this team to “transform the future of healthcare and through “bold moves” to help create a “wider perspective of mission.” Translation: Bryan will continue the progressive (mystic) spiritualism that he popularized at the One Project and Walla Walla University Church.
In the 2030 Transformative agenda he will be given even greater influence as a guiding thinker of Adventist Health.
Fulcrum7 readers may remember Alex Bryan recommending as “must reads” emergent author Brian McClaren’s heterodox book a Generous Orthodoxy , along with contemplative pastor Eugene Peterson’s material, and universalist Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis. Here’s an article by ChurchMouse.
Jason Wells
Jason Wells is the third member of this newly formed Transformative 2030 Vision team. Wells will be responsible for consumer services, experience design, marketing and brand, public affairs, and strategy activation. Translation: Wells will help to change Adventist Health through innovation, leading stakeholders to accept the new vision.
Wells was raised Adventist, attended Walla Walla college, and also earned an MBA at Benedictine University, a private Roman Catholic University in Illinois. While at the Florida Hospital in Orlando as Director of the Experience Network, he collaborated with the Disney I.D.E.A.S. team seeking to create the ultimate patient experience for patients and guests.
Adventist Health is an integrated healthcare system that serves more than 80 rural and urban communities on the West Coast and Hawaii.
The Agenda
The vague NAD press release on this new ‘Transformative Vision’ is long on newspeak, and short on details about what they hope to accomplish, and how.
By calling their agenda “transformative” we can confidently reason that they hope to significantly change something. By calling it the 2030 vision, it raises questions about a possible alignment or association with the United Nations Agenda 2030 (or Sustainable Development). Or it could be a coincidence..
You may recall that Ganoune Diop, the GC PARL director is using his influence to persuade church organizations to assist the UN in achieving its 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. It is also true that the Pacific Union College has sent interns to the United Nations to learn how to increase their communication & influence at the United Nations. Regrettably, Adventists do Adventism very little credit when they seek to align us with an organization as corrupt and incompetent as the United Nations. They should be called out on this by the vast majority of Church members who want nothing to do with this agenda.
Newmyer’s expertise in diversity, equity and inclusion (stated goals of Agenda 2030) coupled with Bryan’s spiritual experimentations and Wells’ collaboration with Disney create a toxic vision for Adventist Health, moving it ever away from the SDA blueprint and closer to the deceptive wisdom of the world (1 Corinthians 3:19).
Such schemes may appear to be successful, but God calls us to be faithful rather than successful (Titus 1:9; 2 Timothy 2:2; Luke 16:10).
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