At a specially called meeting of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada (SDACC) Board of Directors on Sunday, July 18, 2010,  Pastor Mark Johnson, president of Alberta Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, was appointed to serve as president of the SDACC.   He replaces Dan Jackson who was recently elected as president of the North American Division (NAD) of Seventh-day Adventists.

Johnson was born in the United States and worked as a pastor in both Missouri and California before moving to Canada, where he has served for the last 25 years.

His Canadian service includes pastoral work at Bowmanville Church in Ontario, pastoral and in the spring of 2008.