Emile Maxi

Vice President for Administration/Executive Secretary, Ontario Conference

Emile Maxi is an ordained minister and has been serving the Seventh-day Adventist Church for the past 32 years. He worked as a pastor in Jamaica, Montreal, Quebec and in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is fluently bilingual, English and French.

He has also served the Seventh-day Adventist Church Organization as a Director at various levels at the Conference and Union in Canada and New Zealand respectively. Pastor Maxi served as Executive Secretary and President of the Quebec Conference. Currently, he serves as Executive Secretary, Vice President for Administration for the Ontario Conference.

Pastor Maxi holds a bachelor’s degree in Theology and a Master’s degree in Educational Administration. He is also a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist and a Certified Life Coach.

He is the author of an emotional health book: The Will to Heal, published in 2023 and a second book: The Unhealed Wounds of My Father, focusing on inter-generational trauma, to be released in July 2024.

Pastor Maxi is married to June Sequira-Maxi and together they have two young adult daughters, Juneile and Nicole Maxi. Emile and June Maxi currently live in Oshawa, Ontario.