The Rich History: The picture you are viewing shows 18 Black ordained Pastors at the 1918 General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist held in San Francisco CA. None of these men were from California. The reason? There were no Black ordained SDA preachers in California at that time. A work for the Colored people (we were colored at that time) had started as early as 1906 in Oakland, California. In Los Angeles,1906, two laymen from the Central SDA Church were involved in giving