Pastor Damon Washington was born and raised in the beautiful Monterey Bay Peninsula. He holds an Associate of Arts Degree in Business Administration from Monterey Peninsula College. Additionally, he holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Management Information Systems from California State University, Sacramento. Pastor Damon also holds a Master of Divinity Degree from the Seventh-day Adventist Seminary at Andrews University, in Berrien Springs, Michigan where he graduated in May 2018. 

Since January 2022, Pastor Damon has served as the lead pastor for the District comprised of the Pittsburg SDA Church, in Pittsburg, California, and the Immanuel Temple SDA Church in Oakland, California in the Northern California Conference (NCC) of Seventh-day Adventists. Pastor Damon was ordained as a Seventh-day Adventist Minister of the Gospel in October 2022.

Prior to joining the NCC, Pastor Washington served as the Director of the Nevada-Utah Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Lay Pastors Ministry Department and Associate Pastor for the District comprised of the Riverview SDA Church, in Reno, Nevada, and the Truckee SDA Church, in Truckee, California from July 2018 through December 2021. 

Pastor Damon previously served as a ministerial intern for the Berean SDA Church, in South Bend, Indiana, for three years. Prior to that, he was an active ordained Elder at the Sacramento, Capitol City SDA Church, in California. While at Capitol City, Damon served as the lay pastor for the Fijian Church Group at Capitol City.  

Pastor Washington has a passion for winning souls for the Kingdom. Pastor Damon has previously served as a Personal Ministries leader and was responsible for many successful outreach campaigns. While in Seminary, Pastor Washington served as the team lead for a March 2018 evangelistic and mission trip to Cuba. While there, he preached many sermons; and when the meetings ended, over 500 souls were baptized! Pastor Damon has preached throughout North America and internationally, including, Fiji.

Pastor Damon is happily married to Jeanice Warden-Washington, a chief consultant at the California State Capitol, an ordained Elder, and member of the Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Church State Council Speaker’s Bureau.