Pastor Paul Retemiah is a native of the South American/ Caribbean nation of Guyana. His family, including his Father Victor, Mother Doreen, and brothers Donald, Mark, Joel, and John migrated to Brooklyn NY in 1984 when Paul was 11 yrs old. Pastor Paul grew up in Brooklyn where he went on to attend NYU and worked in the financial industry for 12 years. He was introduced to the Seventh-day Adventist faith in 1988 by his eldest brother Pastor Donald Retemiah who was a serving elder at the Shiloh SDA Church in Brooklyn NY. He was baptized into the SDA faith in 2000 at the Shiloh SDA church where he first met his future wife in 2004. In the spring of 2006 he asked her out for the 1^st time and would ask for her hand in marriage by the winter of the same year. They were married 2 years later in August 2008 when he started his studies in Pastoral Studies in the Undergraduate Theology program at Andrews University. Their Son Eliel would be their 1^st of five children when they became parents in August of 2011. Elyanah would soon follow in November of 2012, Eliam in July of 2015, Elynn in April of 2017 and Eli in December of 2018.

Pastor Graduated with Masters in Divinity in 2016 and would relocate to Conyers Georgia in 2017 where he became an itinerant preacher before establishing Elisaveta Ministries Inc. In the Spring of 2019 Pastor Paul was invited by Pastor Sam Bulgin of the Atlanta Belvedere Church in conjunction with the Georgia Cumberland Conference of SDA Churches, to establish and lead a church Plant launched in August of 2019 in Snellville Georgia. In December 2021 the mission was formally organized into a company with Georgia Cumberland Conference. Pastor Paul and small group of members from the Snellville mission meeting as a mission group in October of 2021 and would go on to establish a 100 percent Virtual Church that launched in January 2022 as an entity of Elisaveta Ministries Inc. While the mission group was formalizing plans to launch the Virtual Village Church. Pastor Paul was contacted by President Garth Gabriel on referral from Pastor Earl Baldwin on behalf of the Lake Region Conference of SDA Churches to gauge his joining LRC. While Pastor was convicted of God’s leading in establishing the Virtual Village Church, he also recognized immediately that the opportunity being proposed could only be the work of God reflecting the favor of God. He was formally offered the assignment to the Muskegon/Idlewild district in February of 2021.