Rajmund Dabrowski retired from his work as the Rocky Mountain Conference communication director on Jan. 1. 2024. Dabrowski acted as director for nearly 10 years, joining RMC in 2015.

“A major page is turning at the end of this year—our longtime friend and colleague, Elder Rajmund Dabrowski, will be retiring. Ray has given many years of faithful service to our conference ever since his first retirement. He leaves an important legacy of excellent work for which I am deeply grateful,” said Mic Thurber, RMC president. 

“Having served the church over decades, I have completed my formal service with the local level of church organization. It was a learning curve, and I will be forever grateful to our Church to see communication as one of the primary ministries,” reflected Dabrowski.

The RMC Executive Committee voted in December to accept the RMC AdCom’s recommendation to invite Liz Kirkland to take over as full-time conference Communication Department director starting January 1, which she accepted. 

“Ray recommended to bring in Liz, a member of the Littleton Seventh-day Adventist Church, to join him in the department as his assistant two years ago,” said Thurber. “Liz has some wonderful gifts in design, computer applications related to electronic media, and is a wordsmith in her own right. She will bring many new and fresh ideas and approaches to the wide array of modern media channels that are available today. We have every confidence that Liz will build on Ray’s strong foundation and take us to the next level. We are fortunate she has joined our leadership team.”

“I have been so blessed to have worked with Ray in this ministry. His experience in the field of Adventist communication is second to none, and I just enjoy the person he is. I will miss him!” remarked Kirkland. 

She added, “But I am grateful for the opportunity to better serve my conference, and I look forward to having more devoted time to working with RMC’s wonderful members and leaders to share Adventist hope in the community.”