Pastor Giancarlo de Miranda

Pastor Giancarlo de Miranda and his wife Tatiana are both originally from Brazil. He started serving in full-time ministry in 2009 as a pastor’s assistant and literature evangelist in the Big Island of Hawaii.  In 2010 he returned to Brazil where he served as the Academic Dean and Bible Instructor at Instituto de Educação e Saúde de Taquara (a mission college in the State of Rio de Janeiro).  There he met Tatiana, whom he married on September 25, 2011.  In 2012 Giancarlo and Tatiana established a mission training school in the State of Espírito Santo, Brazil.  Hundreds of students have been discipled to better understand, apply, and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. During this period their first daughter, Sofia Ellen, was born (July 8, 2015).

After returning to the United States in early 2017, Giancarlo served as the College Dean of Hartland College in Rapidan, VA, as well as Chair and Bible Instructor of the College’s Religion Department. While serving at Hartland College their second daughter, Giulia Isabel, was born (May 18, 2018).

In 2022 Giancarlo graduated from Andrews University with a Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry. Since March 2020 Giancarlo and Tatiana, and their girls have been serving as a pastoral family In the Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. They consider a privilege to be part of such a vibrant community of faith as the Cedar Lake Seventh-day Adventist Church Family.