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 surgery resident at Loma Linda University, where he received his dental degree in 2018 and his medical degree in 2022. He also completed an internship in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Maryland, Baltimore in 2019. He 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 in their times of distress. He is the grateful son of missionary parents and is happily married to his wife Janessa, a pediatrician. Together they look forward to continuing a life of service and joy where God leads

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.

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.