Pastoral Ministries

Candy Seibert joined the Potomac Conference Corporation team in February, 2011. She grew up in Takoma Park, Md. and attended JNA and TA. Candy moved to West Virginia in the late 1970’s where she attended Fairmont State University. Candy and her husband Jamie have two grown boys and they all live in the Harrisonburg, Va. area. In her spare time, Candy and her husband enjoy riding with friends and family down the Blue Ridge Parkway on motorcycles. They also spend a lot of time boating and swimming at their cabin at Smith Mountain Lake.

Renee Hallman is passionate about God’s work in and through local churches. She has had the privilege of pastoring throughout Potomac Conference for the last 10 years. Prior to her work as a pastor, she was a social worker in home-based services and served as an administrator in Community Mental Health for strategic and person-centered planning.

Renee received her bachelor’s degree and MDiv from Andrews University. She is currently working on her Doctorate of Ministry at Fuller Theological Seminary.

Renee is happily married to her husband Chris, and they love traveling and playing games together. You can often find them on the beautiful trails that wander through Virginia.

Rafael Soto accepted the call to serve as Hispanic Ministries Director in June of 2021. Previously, he served as senior pastor of the Richmond Evangelistic Center (VA.) for more than five years. He focused on missionary work to reach the community and including the second and third generation of Hispanics in the church.

Between 2011 and 2016, Soto had the opportunity to serve in the district of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the Allegheny West Conference. With the church members, he planted five churches and baptized more than 500 people for Christ. Soto graduated from Universidad Adventista del Plata in Argentina with a Bachelor’s Degree in Theology and completed his Pastoral Master Degree at Andrews University (Mich.). Pastor Soto’s vision for Hispanic Ministries is to extend the kingdom of God in the Potomac Conference territory, reaching all generations with the message of salvation and eternal life.

Soto has been married to Laura Rosenzweig for over 19 years and together they are blessed to have a daughter named Florencia.

Steve Leddy is an associate for pastoral ministries and overseas church planting and evangelism.  He has a special passion to build relevant churches and ministries that appeal to and attract young adults and people who are unchurched. Additionally, Leddy is the founder of the Church Planting and Adventist Leadership School (CPALS), which provides hands on training for exceptional young adults with no ministry experience or education; the Church Planting Institute (CPI) which trains pastors and lay leaders to plant effective new churches in the areas they are serving; and Allies In Mission (AIM) which is a training program to dramatically increase the mission effectiveness and disciple-making potential of new and existing churches.

In addition to being pastor of Community of Hope church Paul Graham serves to help churches experience revitalization. Graham most recently served as Associate Director for Pastoral Ministries.  Previously, Graham spent 25 years in ministry, including as lead pastor at Restoration Praise Center (Bowie, Md.). He previously spent 13 years in the New York area engaging in youth and young adult ministries, striving to present each message with the intention of motivating his listeners to prepare themselves for the soon coming of Christ. As a result, in 2002, Graham launched Full Circle Ministries to empower youth and young adults to participate in evangelism and wholesome activities, reaching both churched and unchurched individuals. Graham loves teaching the Word of God and helping as many as possible gain a better understanding of the Gospel and stronger walk with the Master.