Charlene Sargent has served as director for Community Services at the Pacific Union Conference since 2004.
She previously worked as a cardiovascular technologist at Adventist Health St. Helena and Adventist Health Bakersfield.
Although Charlene has lived all of her life in California, she has served as a subject matter expert for disaster response, recovery, and planning in 40 U.S. states and territories and Canada.
She has two married sons and five grandchildren.