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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#CC9966" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="04600640dkesoe.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Medical Missionary Press</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#006633" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FF3300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#CC0033" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Medical Missionary Press"><B>home</B></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#CC9966" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="13">       <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="7">      <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="7">      <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="13"></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Speakers</div> <div> Norbert Restrepo, Jr.</div> <div> Norbert Restrepo Jr. grew up in a Seventh-day Adventist home. His father held a position of high rank in the Seventh-day Adventist church in country-regionColombia, placeSouth America. After twenty years of denominational work, his parents moved into self-supporting work, establishing Las Delicias Institute in placecountry-regionVenezuela.  After being homeschooled and mentored by his parents, Brother Restrepo graduated from Las Delicias Institute with two majors, Health Education and Bible Instruction. </div> <div> In 1996, Brother Restrepo founded and became president of Fundacion Las Delicias in placecountry-regionColombia. Starting out with primitive conditions, this mission center developed into a boarding academy and missionary college with different areas of service such as a farm, carpentry crew, bakery, health food industry, lifestyle center, publishing ministry, media center, and a vegetarian restaurant with a health food store. </div> <div> Brother Restrepo's ministerial activities have included pastoring the campus church and teaching Bible and health sciences, as well as business and management functions. He has spoken at camp meetings, evangelistic series, seminars, and conferences in placeNorth America and various European and Latin countries. </div> <bR> <div> Steve Meyer</div> <div> Steve Meyer draws on years of experience in organic market gardening and mission agriculture training in the country-regionplaceUS and abroad. He presently gardens with his wife and son in placeCityGlenville, StateWV. His company, Growing Resources, produces flame weeders for non-chemical weed control.</div> <bR> <div> Mark Heisey</div> <div> Director of The Barnabas Center Ministries and editor of <I>Preach It! </I>is a quad-vocational Seventh-day Adventist minister. His wife, Eulita, is a Seventh-day Adventist educator. They live on a farm, emphasizing simple, sustainable living. Along with their adult son whom they home-schooled, Mark, has a repair/tree service business, sells produce and plants, travels on mission trips, and is usually teaching a class on financial management, gardening, preaching, natural remedies... and mentoring young men to learn practical life skills.</div> <bR> <div> Allan Kennedy</div> <div> Growing up Allan  was the only grandchild allowed to help in his grandfathers truck garden. His Grandfather had attended placeCityMadison, knew Southerland and Magan and was a character! Growing up Allan watched him use healthy produce to break barriers and influence others for right. Allan maintains two websites devoted to Biological Food Production at biologicalfoodproduction.com" <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="CentSchbook BT" ><A HREF="http://www." TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www."><U>www.biologicalfoodproduction.com</U></A></FONT></div> <div> and Growing Money- Profitable Growing Niches at growing-money.org" <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="CentSchbook BT" ><A HREF="http://www." TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www."><U>www.growing-money.org</U></A></FONT> live on the web. Both have several free presentations.</div> <div> Biological Food Production is about raising natural nutrient dense food from mineralized soil and producing up to 4,000 pounds from 12'x36' in 30 minutes a day.</div> <div> Growing Money- Profitable Growing Niches highlights 30 profitable growing niches. Raising 6 of the top 7 crops should gross about $150,000 annually on 1/2 acre. This provides a road map of ideas for profitably growing enabling people to live in the country.</div> <bR> <div> Larry Lesher</div> <div> Larry is in charge of <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="CentSchbook BT" ><A HREF="http://www.bhhec.org/BHHEC/Battle-Creek-Gardens/Battle-Creek-Gardens.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.bhhec.org/BHHEC/Battle-Creek-"><U>Battle Creek Gardens</U></A></FONT>, the `Certified Naturally Grown' garden on the Black Hills Health & Education Center (BHHEC) grounds. From the garden, produce is supplied to the BHHEC kitchen, local restaurants and markets. Larry and his wife came to BHHEC from placeCitySeattle where he was the owner of Local Roots Farm and before that he was an intern at Natures Last Stand. After enjoying six years of small scale organic farming he is excited to share his experiences and life lessons. Trusting  in the Lord one step at a time to provide the insight and knowledge to learn and teach Gods ways in these last days. Larry is happy to have folks out to the garden to learn about God's second book - nature - and how we can grow closer to Him in the garden.</div> <bR> <div> Jerry Travers</div> <div> Jerry has worked as an agriculture instructor at several schools, and been involved in agriculture in StateplaceHawaii and various parts of the nation. Currently he us the farm manager for Sweet Birch Farm, CityMeriden, CT. Farm practices are based on learning to use natural resources to build the farm's bulldozed, damaged soil. His study has been to understand how God repairs damaged soils so that they can produce nutrient dense foods. Jerry gives presentastions on this subject, leads farm tours to show how it works and apprentice local interests that want hands-on experience.</div> <bR> <div> Elvin Easton</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Bob Gregory</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Ed Dysinger</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Bob Jorgensen</div> <div> Bob Jorgensen is the Director of Madison Educational & Research Institute, a branch of Medical Missionary Press. He has been studying and experiencing the issues of education and agriculture gained in a country setting with a focus of hands-on experience for about forty years. He and his wife Vicky have traveled to different places, including the site of the former placeCityMadison school, collecting information on the model education that was given to Seventh-day Adventists to spread through the world. More information is available at <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="CentSchbook BT" ><A HREF="http://www.mmpress.info" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.mmpress.info"><U>www.mmpress.info</U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>