Helping Others
Prepare for Eternity

Tara Vang

Tara grew up in a tiny Southern California town called Lompoc. She is the 7th of 8 children born to the very first Hmong Seventh-day Adventist refugees granted aslyum to live in the United States. She currently serves as the Associate Director for Property & Risk Management at the Central California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and is pursuing the Planned Giving and Trust Services ministry. Before this, she spent five years organizing nearly 50 free medical and dental clinics through the Life Hope Centers ministry. Through the work of free clinics, she came to believe even more deeply that faith is not only theological, spiritual, intellectual, or social—it is real, practical, and tangible. Tara holds a Master’s in Public Health from Loma Linda University School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Science in City Planning and Development from the University of California, Davis.In her free time, she loves cooking vegan Hmong food, fishing, snorkeling, hiking, and flying her drone. Her greatest joys are in building community, leading small group Bible studies, and seeing young people transformed by God’s character of love. Her favorite quote from EGW is to "so relate yourself to society and to life that you may answer the purpose of God in your creation.”