Presenters

Jose is the founder and pres­i­dent of the Campo Real Mis­sion­ary Foun­da­tion, an inter­na­tional evan­ge­list, the current direc­tor of Mission Esper­anza and evan­ge­list of the Domini­can Union of Seventh-day Adven­tists, and author of the book Prac­ti­cal Guide to Leaving the City

Elias & Yumara Acevedo, whose family calling has been service, have been involved with medical mis­sion­ary work since 2009. Lifestyle edu­ca­tors with expe­ri­ence in mis­sions, herbal & natural reme­dies, Bible work, mid­wifery, car­pen­try and WFR train­ing, they with their chil­dren have been blessed to min­is­ter together wher­ever God has led.

West­on’s home­steading began at age 13 when his parents moved to central Ten­nessee. He devel­oped a passion for peren­nial fruit crops, which he main­tains to this day. Weston com­pleted a BS in Sus­tain­able Food and Farming in 2022 and presently works at the Baker Creek Heir­loom Seeds research farm.

Jace Addison was born and raised in Hico, TX and spent most of his child­hood on the family farm. He is now serving as a pastor in the Hico and Joshua Cowboy churches and lives on his family farm with his wife Kayla.

Ariella Andrade lives in Middle Ten­nessee with her mom Jasmine Andrade running a small home­stead. She wants to encour­age other young people to pursue an agrar­ian lifestyle and work for the Lord.

Jasmine Andrade is a realtor in the middle Ten­nessee, she and her daugh­ter Ariella run a small home­stead called Sweetly Eden Farms. They sell plant based baked goods, organic produce and give horse trail rides. With God’s guid­ance they have been able to min­is­ter to others and share their knowledge.

Kevin Brown cur­rently serves as the Pres­i­dent of Andrews Service Cor­po­ra­tion, (an affil­i­ate of Andrews Uni­ver­sity) in Berrien Springs, MI, and the Chief Finan­cial Officer at Farmers Friend in Cen­ter­ville, TN.
Kevin holds an MS in Infor­ma­tion Systems Man­age­ment from Seattle Pacific Uni­ver­sity, an MBA in Finance from the Uni­ver­sity of Illi­nois, and a Bach­e­lor of Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion in Account­ing from Andrews Uni­ver­sity.
His work expe­ri­ence includes service in public account­ing, man­u­fac­tur­ing, farming, physi­cian prac­tice man­age­ment, and phil­an­thropy.
Kevin and his wife, Mar­garet (John­ston) reside in Berrien Springs, MI. They have two sons — Sam (Naval Officer) and Simon Luke (Grad­u­ate student).

Chett and Melissa own and operate a small farm in North­ern Michi­gan. Between Chett’s full-time job, home­school­ing, farming, and raising two boys, it is always an adventure! 

Cur­rently licensed to prac­tice med­i­cine in 5 states, Dr. Cobos is board cer­ti­fied in both Anes­the­si­ol­ogy and Lifestyle Med­i­cine. His log home in the woods is used as a part-time san­i­tar­ium, well­ness edu­ca­tion center, and lifestyle med­i­cine prac­tice loca­tion. The year round garden serves as the pharmacy.

Carol Daul, BSN, RN, is an Army Chaplain’s spouse and mom of two home­schooled adult chil­dren. A sea­soned reg­is­tered nurse, she is now devel­op­ing a lifestyle coach­ing min­istry called Bloom-Grow Lifestyle Coach­ing. Carol enjoys outdoor life in the garden, growing micro­greens, pre­serv­ing produce, and sewing her own cloth­ing in her spare time.

Kathe­rina is a K‑2 teacher and cur­rently flower farming evenings and in the summer on Boun­ti­ful Bless­ings Farm. She loves serving the Lord through sharing God’s love in the opening buds and edu­cat­ing chil­dren through true education.

Skip Dodson embraced the Advent message as a 25 year old aero­space engi­neer­ing grad­u­ate student. Over the past three decades he has served as a Bible worker, a dis­trict pastor, an admin­is­tra­tor, and as a college dean and reli­gion chair. He is cur­rently serving as a self-sup­port­ing mis­sion­ary based in Col­orado. Skip has been united in min­istry for nearly 30 years with his wife Renee. The couple have two young adult chil­dren, both of whom are part­ners with them in mission.

Caleb Dysinger was born and raised on Boun­ti­ful Bless­ings Farm in middle Ten­nessee where he farms with his parents and brother. As he grew up, farming turned from a burden into his career choice. He loves the chal­lenge of stream lining and making things run more efficiently.

Edwin and Jen­nifer Dysinger and their chil­dren spent 16 years pio­neer­ing in Sudan, Tan­za­nia and Yemen with ADRA and OCI, working to improve the lives of poor and rural fam­i­lies. That was fol­lowed by 10 years of growing produce with Boun­ti­ful Bless­ings Farm. They enjoy devel­op­ing their home­stead on the family farm, working with son Paul on Seed­time, and spend­ing time with their parents, sib­lings, and 11 grandchildren!

John Dysinger, along with his wife Pam and their chil­dren, started Boun­ti­ful Bless­ings Farm in the fall of 1998 (after 8 years of class­room teach­ing). He has learned almost every­thing the hard way, but is thank­ful for the many lessons God has taught him in the process. Now his passion is to encour­age others to expe­ri­ence the bless­ings of an agrar­ian life.

Jonathan grew up on a family farm in Middle Ten­nessee and, at an early age, started taking an inter­est in busi­ness endeav­ors. He now runs an inter­na­tional busi­ness that man­u­fac­tures and dis­trib­utes tools and sup­plies for the small farm indus­try. His expe­ri­ences have helped to develop a passion for busi­ness and the min­istry oppor­tu­ni­ties that it offers.

Joshua Dysinger grew up working with his family on Boun­ti­ful Bless­ings Farm, and now manages the winter growing season along with his wife Kelli. Joshua also manages the harvest and mar­ket­ing for both summer and winter season as well as selling pasture raised eggs from his large flock of hens.

Pam Dysinger loves the agrar­ian life with all its oppor­tu­ni­ties for labor and min­istry. She and John started Boun­ti­ful Bless­ings Farm in 1998 and since then they have been reaping the ben­e­fits of farm life. She is mother of 5 chil­dren, and reg­u­larly enjoys visits from her 5 grandchildren.

Paul Dysinger enjoys teach­ing people all over the world how to grow their own healthy, nutri­ent-dense, organic food through online garden train­ing and soft­ware — www​.seed​time​.us. He is the blessed husband to his wife Natasha and father of two sons and one daugh­ter. They cur­rently live in TN and enjoy seeing how much food they can grow on their small homestead.

Dr Diana Fleming PhD is a licensed dietit­ian grad­u­ate from Tufts Uni­ver­sity and a lifestyle med­i­cine nutri­tion pro­fes­sional from the Amer­i­can College of Lifestyle Med­i­cine. For 20 years she worked for the non-profit orga­ni­za­tion Ardmore Insti­tute of Health as the Direc­tor of Nutri­tion Ser­vices of the Lifestyle Center of America. She is the co-author of The Full Plate Diet and The 30-Day Dia­betes Miracle cook­book, and has taught nutri­tion, devel­oped pro­grams, ana­lyzed recipes, con­ducted webi­nars on various lifestyle sub­jects and pro­vided nutri­tion coach­ing to scores of patients, family and friends. Today, Diana uses these bless­ings from the Lord to further His Kingdom by serving as Health Evan­ge­list for the Ardmore SDA church.

Fred is pas­sion­ate about family, mis­sions, prac­ti­cal country living, and gar­den­ing; is married to Marie, and is father to three of the finest young people ever. He has been involved in agri­cul­ture since a very young age, and start­ing at age 15, he has led out in various insti­tu­tional farms.

Marieann is a Dr. of Natur­opa­thy, edu­cat­ing on how to make healthy lifestyle changes and mental and spir­i­tual choices. She is a farmers wife and mother of three pre­cious home­schooled chil­dren, and has a passion for train­ing youth. She is also a radio, con­fer­ence, and church speaker in the US and abroad.

Tony Fuentes is the Farm Manager, Agri­cul­ture Teacher, and Men’s Dean at Hart­land College, as well as the Direc­tor of the Pied­mont Bible Camp. With over a decade of farming expe­ri­ence, he is ded­i­cated to edu­cat­ing and inspir­ing fam­i­lies to embrace a country lifestyle. Tony has a deep passion for working with youth and teenagers, taking annual mis­sion­ary trips to various coun­tries to share his love for service. He is happily married to his wife, Kenya, and is a proud father of three chil­dren: Yetzley, Jabneel, and Yetzraim.

Darren cur­rently teaches an Agri­cul­ture class at Weimar Uni­ver­sity that involves the EGW methods of plant­ing trees, along with all the other con­sid­er­a­tions involved. Orig­i­nally from New Zealand, some of his ances­tors were suc­cess­ful and expe­ri­enced orchardists. One of them devel­oped the New Zealand favorite peach ​“Golden Queen.” His Father at age 83 has a large home orchard with many vari­eties. Darren and his father are con­stantly sharing expe­ri­ences and infor­ma­tion. Cur­rently Darren is devel­op­ing an orchard that will have year round pro­duc­tion and income. 

Nathan is a fruit farmer from Nova Scotia. From boyhood he has had a passion for animals and farming. 10 years ago his family started breed­ing golden retriev­ers. Their busi­ness — Goldens with a Mission — has pro­vided 80 dogs for fam­i­lies and indi­vid­u­als, includ­ing service dogs for people with disabilities.

Eliz­a­beth enjoys working along­side her parents and broth­ers in their garden, with the chick­ens, & a White Chinese Goose on their back­yard home­stead in Upstate New York. She owns ​“The Better Bread,” — a sour­dough microbak­ery focused on using whole­some ingre­di­ents. You will often hear Eliz­a­beth talk about two of her favorite things — sour­dough & her feath­ered-friends. She’s excited to share her passion with others.

While raised Roman Catholic, God used a veg­e­tar­ian restau­rant in Europe and an organic farm in Italy to intro­duce James to Seventh-day Adven­tists. Since his con­ver­sion, James has served in dif­fer­ent lead­er­ship capac­i­ties in min­istry. He cur­rently serves as Exec­u­tive VP for OCI and General VP for ASI. James is engaged in min­istry with his wife Dani and their two girls, Layla and Lauren.

Joy Kauff­man, MPH, is the Founder and Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of FARMSTEW Inter­na­tional, which serves under­priv­i­leged fam­i­lies glob­ally with the prac­ti­cal gospel. She grad­u­ated Magna Cum Laude from Johns Hopkins Uni­ver­sity and Vir­ginia Tech. Joy is a Chris­t­ian, public health nutri­tion­ist, gar­dener, wife, mother, and ​‘grandma’ to an orange cat.

With over a decade of expe­ri­ence in media, mar­ket­ing, and brand build­ing, Nick cur­rently serves as Brand Manager at Farmers Friend in Cen­ter­ville, TN. He is pas­sion­ate about travel, inno­v­a­tive tech, and space­flight, and loves spend­ing time with his wife Kirsten and their 3‑year-old son Judah.

Chad and Fadia Kreuzer have spent years pro­duc­ing films on archae­ol­ogy, history, health and longevity. They also share sem­i­nars on the gut-brain con­nec­tion, health, over­com­ing habits, and over­com­ing the media trap nat­u­rally. Their website is: anchor​point​films​.com They also have a YouTube Channel called ​“Health and Homestead” 

After grad­u­at­ing from South­west­ern Adven­tist Uni­ver­sity with a Bachelor’s of Biology, Dr. Erin Maloney joined a bio­med­ical research lab at the Uni­ver­sity of Texas Health Sci­ences Center in Tyler, Texas. She has a Doc­tor­ate in Medical Biology from the Polish Academy of Sci­ences. Through the years, she remained involved with South­west­ern’s Dinosaur Project, trav­el­ing to Wyoming every summer to help recover and study fossils.

Tommy Mayer is cur­rently a teacher/​farmer at DayStar Adven­tist Academy. Prior to that he appren­ticed with Lynn Hoag, which was a great prepa­ra­tion for his work at DayStar. Tommy has spear­headed a project called ​“The Food Lab”, with the goal to have zero waste of farm produce — by dehy­drat­ing, freeze-drying and pickling.

Gabriel & Von­nelle McClover are the owners of the Vine­yard Café & Juice Bar (estab. 2015) in Sum­merville, GA, and are the Founders of the F.I.T.T. Chal­lenge. They have worked in GA and across the country edu­cat­ing about tasty, plant-based nutri­tion to help prevent and reverse chronic lifestyle dis­eases. Their 5 chil­dren range from 3 – 15 years of age.

Whitmar has been growing produce and spe­cialty crops for 32 years. For 20 years he’s pro­vided soil fer­til­ity and edu­ca­tion ser­vices through­out North America and beyond to growers of every scale from back­yard gar­den­ers to growers farming several thou­sand acres. He’s been married to his wife Lisa for 34 years, is dad to 8 chil­dren and ​“Gramps” to 3 grand­chil­dren. He loves helping people ​“taste and see that the Lord is good”. 

Neil Nedley, M.D. is founder and medical direc­tor of the Nedley Depres­sion and Anxiety Recov­ery Pro­grams, and ​“Opti­mize Your Brain” program designed to enhance emo­tional intel­li­gence. Dr. Nedley is a board-cer­ti­fied Inter­nal Med­i­cine spe­cial­ist with an empha­sis in the dif­fi­cult-to-diag­nose patient, gas­troen­terol­ogy, and mental health. He also serves as Pres­i­dent of Weimar Uni­ver­sity. He has pre­sented and pub­lished numer­ous sci­en­tific studies and is well known as a public speaker and teacher through­out the world. He is the author of Proof Pos­i­tive, Depres­sion — the Way Out, The Lost Art of Think­ing, and Opti­mize Your Brain. Dr. Nedley and his wife Erica have four sons.

Kyle Neuroh is a self taught wood­worker who lives with his lovely wife Sherri and two boys Llandon and Hudson along with a plethora of crit­ters on their 26 acre home­stead in Williamsport, TN. Kyle has a wood floor­ing busi­ness, and a custom fur­ni­ture busi­ness that he oper­ates from a shop on their property.

Daniel Nicholls started gar­den­ing in his late teens and never stopped. Shortly after joining the Adven­tist church in 2013, he began to work on farms and has found it to be a ful­fill­ing min­istry. He now shares Christ and his passion for gar­den­ing as the Agri­cul­ture Direc­tor at Hol­brook Indian School

Growing up in rural Alabama, Kelly was raised by parents who embraced the country living message. She has taken that expe­ri­ence along with a passion for organic no-till gar­den­ing into running a small no-till flower farm. Kelly lives with her husband Ed, and four young adult chil­dren in Newalla, Oklahoma.

Kenny Point is a farmer, bee­keeper, and writer living in Central West Vir­ginia. He raises a variety of crops for market that include ginger, turmeric, leafy greens, garlic, med­i­c­i­nal herbs, and gourmet mush­rooms. In addi­tion to his agri­cul­tural pur­suits, his back­ground includes Medical Mis­sion­ary, herbal, nutri­tional, and prim­i­tive skills training.

Alan Seiler is a small-scale veg­etable grower in South Central Okla­homa. He has been involved in agri­cul­ture since he was 14 years old. Okla­homa is a chal­leng­ing envi­ron­ment to grow in and there­fore been a great place to learn how to grow with weather, water quality, soil fer­til­ity and heat-related chal­lenges. Alan is working on his degree from the Uni­ver­sity of Hard Knocks.

Growing up in Texas, Ricky Seil­er’s expe­ri­ence with gar­den­ing was growing pithy weedy radishes. He never dreamed someday he and his wife would join their adult chil­dren to start Bet­ter­To­gether Farm, a small market garden, in South­ern Okla­homa. Now the family grows more than 30 dif­fer­ent veg­eta­bles on their year-round farm.

Seth Shaffer is a farmer with over a decade of expe­ri­ence helping to run his fam­i­ly’s farm, Red Clay Farm, and teach­ing sus­tain­able agri­cul­ture to the stu­dents at South­ern Adven­tist Uni­ver­sity. He has a masters degree in Sus­tain­able Food Systems from Green Moun­tain College and is pas­sion­ate about teach­ing agriculture. 

Teresa Sherard, M.D., earned her medical degree from Loma Linda Uni­ver­sity School of Med­i­cine in 1999. She also has a fel­low­ship in Lifestyle Med­i­cine earned while prac­tic­ing at the Lifestyle Center of America in OK. Cur­rently, Dr. Teresa Sherard, MD prac­tices in Ava, MO.

Lee Wellard is a grad­u­ate from the Insti­tute of Medical Min­istry at Wild­wood Lifestyle Center & Hos­pi­tal in Georgia and went on to become a teacher of applied phys­i­ol­ogy and nutri­tion. Lee is a cer­ti­fied Holis­tic Health Prac­ti­tioner and has also com­pleted his studies as a Master Herbal­ist and went on to a degree his doc­tor­ate in Natur­opa­thy and is a vol­un­teer teacher of botan­i­cal med­i­cine at Andrews Uni­ver­sity. In 2018 Lee started the Amer­i­can Herb Shoppe and has a suc­cess­ful online busi­ness that spe­cial­izes in some of the best organic herbal extracts.

Joshua White is an edu­ca­tor and the direc­tor of A Think­ing Gen­er­a­tion – a min­istry pro­vid­ing sem­i­nars, con­sul­ta­tions, and media mate­r­ial to help fam­i­lies and schools around the world under­stand and follow God’s methods of true edu­ca­tion. Learn more at aThink​ingGen​er​a​tion​.org.

Since 2005, Althea has been a ded­i­cated nurse spe­cial­iz­ing in neona­tal and pedi­atric nephrol­ogy, adult dial­y­sis, and case man­age­ment. Seeking a slower pace, she and her family moved to the coun­try­side to embrace nature and strengthen their faith. Today, she manages case man­age­ment at a Texas hos­pi­tal while assist­ing on their homestead.

After a 15 year career in the Archi­tec­ture pro­fes­sion, Eric and his family fol­lowed God’s call to move to the country. Eric now has a YouTube channel which show­cases their home­steading expe­ri­ence and high­lights topics on gar­den­ing, rain­wa­ter recla­ma­tion, tending small live­stock, basic con­struc­tion, and build­ing solar systems.