Daniel Beckner graduated from Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon in 1993, He practices optometry in Island City, Oregon with 2 partners providing optometric vision and eye health services to the Northeast corner of Oregon. He finds sharing Jesus in the office and in the community fun and rewarding. His practical evangelism means fixing a roof, moving a neighbor or tangibly encouraging a person in recovery to focus on Jesus.

Daniel and his wife Barbara, have been longtime members of the Association of Seventh-day Adventist Optometrists. Daniel and Barbara attend Amen meetings each year to be encouraged and trained in how to bring Jesus to the workplace. The power of combining healing of the body and the soul in the same discussion is key to sharing Jesus.

He and Barbara love traveling, camping in the Northwest, and spending time with their two sons, their wives and 3 grandchildren.

Adrien Charles-Marcel is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon currently completing a fellowship in cleft and craniofacial surgery at El Paso Children’s Hospital in El Paso, TX. He completed dental school, medical school and oral and maxillofacial surgery residency at Loma Linda University in sunny southern California, where he also met his wife Janessa, a pediatrician.

Adrien stands in awe of God’s amazing leading in his educational journey and finds deep meaning in relieving pain, restoring faces, and showing the love of Jesus to patients as they undergo surgical care. He is passionate about the work of AMEN and enjoys participating in local and foreign missions, caring for patients with orofacial, cleft and craniofacial conditions.

Dr. Donn LaTour received his medical degree from Loma Linda University of Medicine and his PhD in Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology. He completed his dermatology residency, as well as a one-year advanced Mohs Skin Cancer Surgery Fellowship at the Loma Linda University Medical Center in California.

Dr. LaTour’s Mohs Skin Cancer Surgery Fellowship provided him with in depth expertise in the management of skin cancer. Dr. LaTour returned to his home state of Michigan, to begin his practice in 1997. Since that time, he has expanded his practice with offices in Jackson, Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Sturgis and Angola. Dr. Donn LaTour is certified by the American Board of Dermatology and is a member of the American College of Mohs Surgery.

Dr. LaTour has a passion for medical ministry and has been involved with AMEN since its inception. He and his wife, Dr. Esther LaTour, have 2 children.

Jason graduated from Loma Linda University School of Medicine and then completed his Family Medicine residency at Florida Hospital in Orlando, Florida. After working a year in urgent care, he moved with his wife (also a Family Physician) to Nigeria, West Africa where he worked at the Seventh-day Adventist Hospital Ile-Ife training Nigerian Family Physicians at the only Adventist residency-training program in Africa as well as serving as Medical Director of the hospital. He helped to start the first international AMEN chapter in Nigeria in 2007.

After Nigeria, Jason and his family moved to Honduras where they worked at the Valle de Angeles Hospital near Tegucigalpa.

After returning to the US, Jason has worked as a faculty member with the Loma Linda University Family Medicine Residency program and is currently the CEO of SAC Health System, the largest specialty and residency-based Federally Qualified Health Center in the US and the largest Christian health center in the US where several full-time chaplains work along multiple partner churches to help connect patients with a spiritual home.

Jason has a certificate in Tropical and Travel Medicine (CTropMed), has a passion for global health, and continues to serve overseas at various mission hospitals four weeks each year covering physicians who are taking their vacation.

Dr. Eric Taylor is a graduate of the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is board certified in Family Medicine and is currently practicing at Christus Trinity Clinic in Palestine, Texas. His passion for missions has led him to India, Kenya, Madagascar and Tonga as well as working for the underserved here in the United States.

Dr. Taylor believes in teaching health principles and modeling them in his daily life. This belief has impressed him to lead out in a CHIP program as well as conduct a Full Plate Diet program with his wife, LeShel. Since joining AMEN, he has made it a custom to pray with patients and share Christ in his practice. Eric and LeShel enjoy ministering together and pointing people to Jesus.

Pastor Ted Wilson graduated from Columbia Union College (BA in Religion and Business Administration), Andrews University (MDiv), Loma Linda University School of Public Health (MSPH in Health Education), and New York University (PhD in Religious Education). He has lived and served as a church pastor, department director, institutional administrator, and church administrator in metropolitan New York (pastoring and urban evangelistic ministry), in Africa (based in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, for the Africa-Indian Ocean Division where, among other duties, he served as division Health and Temperance director), in Russia (based in Moscow as an administrator in the Euro-Asia Division), and in Maryland (at the Review & Herald Publishing Association and at the General Conference in various capacities). He has a passion for evangelism, comprehensive health ministry/medical missionary work, and urban ministry. He has a world perspective having grown up in Cairo, Egypt, and having lived in various places in the world.

Pastor Wilson believes completely in the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy which has resulted in a desire to see comprehensive health ministry/medical missionary work assume its full role as an integral part of the third angel’s message bring restoration to the image of God in the human being through Christ’s power and pointing people to His soon second coming when final and full restoration will take place. He accepts and promotes comprehensive health ministry/medical missionary work as the right arm of the gospel as outlined in the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy realizing this will be the only and last work done for the world at the end of time when most forms of evangelistic outreach will be curtailed by evil forces just before the return of Christ. The ultimate triumph of Christ’s righteousness and influence through church members fulfilling their role in comprehensive health ministry/medical missionary work undergirds Pastor Wilson’s commitment to organizations like AMEN and its dedicated members. He believes that AMEN has, is, and will play a vital role in the last proclamation of the three angels’ messages and Christ’s soon coming.

Pastor Wilson is married to Nancy Vollmer Wilson who is a physical therapist having graduated from Loma Linda University. They have three daughters who are all health professionals: Emilie (nurse with two masters degrees in health), Elizabeth (nurse), and Catherine (physical therapist with a doctorate). Their daughters are actively involved in the Seventh-day Adventist Church along with their husbands, Kameron DeVasher, David Wright, and Bob Renck. Pastor and Mrs. Wilson have ten grandchildren.

Board Adviser

Although semi-‘retired’, Pastor Mark Finley still serves as an assistant to the president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. He is a renowned evangelist, having presented well over 200 evangelistic series around the world. Medical evangelism is near and dear to Finley’s heart. He began integrating stress-control seminars, smoking cessation, health expos, cooking schools and mini health talks into his evangelistic meetings early in his ministry. He continues to combine health and gospel ministry and routinely brings healthcare professionals as part of his team.

Pastor Finley and his wife Teenie, founded the Living Hope School of Evangelism in Haymarket, VA. They have three grown children and five grandchildren.