Hendrik Sumendap

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Hendrik Sumendap was born on June 9, 1948, in Tareran, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. He is a long‑time Seventh-day Adventist administrator and educator. In 2007 he was elected executive secretary of the Southern Asia-Pacific Division (SSD) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, taking over from GT Ng, who moved to the General Conference in Maryland. Sumendap was the second Indonesian to hold this post; the first was Pastor Alex Rantung.

Before becoming executive secretary, he led the SSD Sabbath School and Personal Ministries department since 1996. He left that role to become a local church pastor in New Jersey, United States, and was replaced by Pastor Joshua Mok.

As executive secretary, his term was short because he retired. During his time, he started a project to verify church membership numbers and found that about 300,000 members were missing from the updated counts.

Earlier in his career, Sumendap was the dean of the Mount Klabat College School of Theology and later vice‑president for student affairs. He also served as associate director of the Church Growth Institute of the Far Eastern Division (based at Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies) from 1993 to 1996. In addition to these roles, he has been a pastor, editor, conference and union leader, college professor, teacher, and elementary school principal. He helped organize what was described as the world’s largest lay congress, with 75,000 attendees at Mountain View College in Bukidnon, Philippines. He is married to Octofien Sumakul.