Stake Presidency Spotlight - President Baerga

President Harold Baerga was born in Brooklyn, NY to Harold and Elizabeth Baerga.  He grew up in Bayamon Puerto Rico where he enjoyed playing baseball from the age of 7 up to the semi professional level as center-fielder. His team, the Titans, won the Baseball World Championship at ages 14, 16, 17, and 18 and was inducted into the Puerto Rico Sports Hall of Fame in Dec 2013.  Then at 19 won the Championship of Puerto Rico at the semi professional level.

Pres. Baerga graduated from La Salle Private School in Bayamon Puerto Rico. He then attended college at the University of Puerto Rico where he earned a BBA in Business Administration with minor in Math. He then attended the University of San Francisco where he earned his Master Certificate in Supply Chain Management and Globalization. He now works as a Sales Executive.

Before being called to the stake presidency he served as branch president, second counselor in bishopric, scout master, and ward missionary leader.

In his spare time he enjoys coaching his son in baseball and watching his girls play volleyball and soccer. He said, "All my time is dedicated to my wife and kids. Most of the time being taking them to sports events and watching them play."

In 2003, he married his wife Wendy in Rincon, Puerto Rico.  They have four children Sabrina (16), Keilani (15), Alana (8) and Harold Baerga III (7) and live in Orlando, FL.

(Back Wendy, Harold, Keilani, Front Harold III, Alana)

His favorite scripture is 1 Nephi 3:7

And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.