Patricia Marruffo was elected as one of the top administrative officials of SECC. The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists vote in 2015 restricted ordination to men only, and typically, senior leadership positions require ordination credentials. The SECC territory has more than 70,000 members and contains two Adventist universities: Loma Linda University and La Sierra University. […] Source: https://atoday.org/patricia-marruffo-elected-as-executive-secretary-of-southeastern-california-conference/