Lecture Series
Fall Lecture Series, November 8-9
Carl Wilkens

Friday Evening – 6:00pm Vegetarian Soup Potluck, 7:30pm Film screening – “I’m Not Leaving”
Sabbath School, 9:30am -“Winding your way to freedom from anger and bitterness”
Church Service, 11:00am -“Made in the un-erasable image of God”
Sabbath Afternoon, 1:30pm -“Jesus’s parable of the Vineyard workers”

Fall Lecture Series, Nov 14-15

Sigve K. Tonstad

Research Professor of Biblical Interpretation and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Loma Linda University.

He completed a B.A. in theology at Middle East College, Beirut, Lebanon, and Andrews University, received his MD from Loma Linda University and a PhD in New Testament Studies at the University of St. Andrews. He is married to Serena Hasso Tonstad, who grew up in Baghdad as the daughter of a Swiss mother and an Iraqi father. They were classmates in medical school. Serena has a Ph.D. in Lipid Research and has done pioneering work in preventive medicine.

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