About Us
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Shane Hilde
Shane Hilde is a webmaster and contributor to ADvindicate, a website featuring Christ-centered, Bible-based, Seventh-day Adventist perspectives on current events and issues within the church. He and his wife enjoy traveling the world during the summer and have hiked through 23 countries together. He received an English degree from La Sierra University and currently teaches American literature at a public high school in California.
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Stephen Bohr
For more than 33 years, Stephen Bohr has served as a church pastor, university theology teacher, conference youth director, and evangelist. He is a highly sought-after revivalist and teacher who has preached around the world and is respected for his keen insight into Bible hermeneutics, prophecy, and doctrine. He is the author of such books as Worship At Satan's Throne and Futurism's Incredible Journey and is the host of the groundbreaking Cracking the Genesis Code series. His wife, Aurora, is from Colombia, and they have two grown children, Stephen and Jennifer.
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Doug Batchelor
Pastor Doug Batchelor is an author and evangelist, known around the world as an energetic man of vision and deep spirituality with a unique ability to communicate the everlasting gospel not only to churchgoers, but also to the secular-minded. He is the senior pastor of Sacramento Central Seventh-day Adventist Church and can be seen around the country on television programs such as Central Study Hour and The Everlasting Gospel. His books include Advindication, Women in Ministry, and The Bible on Marriage, Divorce, & Remarriage.
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Dwight Hall
An entrepreneur, speaker, and author, Dwight Hall has traveled the world sharing practical messages on how to make the Bible come to life in the modern Christian experience. In 1985, he founded Remnant Publications, which has printed, published, and distributed tens of millions of Christian books and literature focused on revealing Bible truths in tangible ways. He is the author of Learning to Walk with God, Secrets Beyond the Grave, and Special Forces for a Special People. He also hosts Bible Alive, a weekly television broadcast that focuses on discovering practical applications from Bible stories.
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Rick & Gwen Shorter
Gwen Shorter partners with her husband Rick in a publishing, health, and music ministry out of California and co-authored Thy Nakedness: Lord, what shall I wear? and Jewelry: The Spiritualism Connection. She has been a featured speaker at the General Youth Conference and has also served as a medical missionary worker. She is the Women's Ministry Leader for the Central Filipino Church and the Director of the Southern California Connection Prayer Line Ministry. Once a model, actress, and R&B singer, Gwen gave her heart to Jesus more than 40 years ago and never looked backed, dedicating her life to forwarding the cause of Christ and drawing attention to the standards and lifestyle promoted in Scripture.
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Agatha Thrash
Dr. Agatha Thrash is a graduate from the Medical College of Georgia with special training in pathology at Emory University. Certified by the American Board of Pathology, she practiced hospital and private pathology for 15 years and forensic pathology for 35 years. Specializing in natural medicine, remedies, and nutrition, she has also operated a home birth service and served as a public health officer. A speaker and author, she’s written a number of books about natural medicine, such as Natural Healthcare for Your Child, and hundreds of counseling papers on a variety of topics for patients.
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Kenneth Cox
Kenneth Cox, renown Adventist evangelist, writer and president of Kenneth Cox ministries.
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Magna Parks
Dr. Magna Parks is a licensed psychologist who has taught at the university level for seven years and worked in private practice for 13 years. She’s the president of Be in Good Health, a health education ministry founded by her and her late husband in 2007. Dr. Parks has conducted mental health seminars all around the world and has a particular interest in helping others achieve true mental health based on principles from science, the Bible, and inspired writings. She is the author of Treating Depression Naturally and Christians, Beware: The Dangers of Secular Psychology.
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Ron Neifert
For more than 30 years, Ron Neifert has been a teacher, speaker, writer, and revivalist who has a deep passion for Christ and for sharing God's Word around the world, especially in places where God’s people have “become rich and in need of nothing.” He has also worked as a radio broadcaster and a mechanical engineer but has now transitioned to full-time ministry, with an emphasis on leading church members to true Christian worship, spirituality, and revival.