Presenters

West­on’s home­steading began at age 13 when his parents moved to central Ten­nessee. He devel­oped a passion for peren­nial fruit crops, and his inter­est in prac­ti­cal fruit pro­duc­tion hasn’t dimin­ished. He earned a BS in Sus­tain­able Food and Farming and now works at Baker Creek Heir­loom Seeds.

Jeff Birth’s love for agri­cul­ture began growing up on the family farm. Food preser­va­tion was an inte­gral part of his child­hood expe­ri­ence. He boot­strapped and managed Milo Adven­tist Academy’s 5 acre market farm for 6 ½ years, inte­grat­ing com­mu­nity out­reach, and value added prod­ucts. Expe­ri­ence in con­struc­tion and fab­ri­ca­tion helped in build­ing the infra­struc­ture on a small budget.

Jeff Bragg has been rooted in the soil since birth. Not only was he born and raised next to first earthen dam in Idaho, but he has expe­ri­enced the food chain from soil to belly as well! His spe­cialty is Con­sult­ing in Agron­omy with a focus on human health.

Known as Aunt Janet to chil­dren around the world as host and writer of To All The World’s Open Doors to Heaven series, Janet is a massage ther­a­pist, gar­dener, cook, sheep enthu­si­ast and artist who delights in men­tor­ing all ages to know and grasp God’s love in prac­ti­cal, tan­gi­ble ways.

Sarah is a shep­herdess and EMT who also works with her fam­i­ly’s media min­istry To All The World. She finds joy in raising & shep­herd­ing wool sheep, gar­den­ing, working with chil­dren, cooking, music and seeing others take hold of the prac­ti­cal gospel in their lives. 

Isaac Chuljian manages a small blue­berry nursery and works on his family’s market farm in Middle Ten­nessee, where he plays a major role in keeping the machin­ery up and running. He enjoys build­ing tools and equip­ment with his brother in his ​“spare” time.

Mark Chuljian ll lives in Middle Ten­nessee where he manages the fam­i­ly’s Sonlit Meadows Farm. Aside from the usual farm veggies, he has a passion for growing grains and beans and keeps the family sup­plied with wheat, corn and soybeans.

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.

Kelly Coffin is an entre­pre­neur whose passion for busi­ness and tech­nol­ogy grew out of needs he iden­ti­fied while being raised on the family farm. His family is devoted to mission focused busi­ness and the oppor­tu­nity to improve lives through enter­prise founded on Heaven’s prin­ci­ples. Kelly lives in Bozeman, Montana sur­rounded by family, farm and horses.

Elder Kameron DeVasher is direc­tor of Sabbath School and Per­sonal Min­istries in the Michi­gan Con­fer­ence. He believes strongly that the Seventh-day Adven­tist Church is God’s end-time move­ment and works to train, equip, and encour­age all church members for effec­tive soul-winning service. For more infor­ma­tion and lay min­istry resources, visit www​.Michi​ganSSPM​.org.

Cherie enjoys gar­den­ing in the Blue Moun­tains of eastern WA with her husband Ron where they have raised their three daugh­ters. Her inter­ests include a love for God’s Word and His working in history, sacred music, helping others, small fruit and veg­etable gar­den­ing, nature, back­pack­ing, baking, cooking and food preserving.

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.

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 has lived it on Boun­ti­ful Bless­ings Farm (Middle TN) for the last 25 years, and loves sharing the bless­ings with others. She is mother of 5 grown chil­dren (3 married) and ​“Mimi” to 4 sweet 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. Emerson’s passion is revers­ing Syn­drome X, asso­ci­ated with dis­eases like obesity and heart disease, through lifestyle inter­ven­tions. His expe­ri­ence includes found­ing his own clinic with his nurse wife as manager, working as a medical mis­sion­ary doctor in Guam, and ICU and ER unit work. He is an inter­na­tional speaker while Oleta loves growing healthy food on their family farm.

Luke and Chantée Fisher are market gar­den­ers raising their chil­dren and organic veg­eta­bles on a family farm in Bristow, Okla­homa. They find joy in living simply, serving God and their com­mu­nity, men­tor­ing young people, and working along­side their little ones every day.

Luke and Chantée Fisher are market gar­den­ers raising their chil­dren and organic veg­eta­bles on a family farm in Bristow, Okla­homa. They find joy in living simply, serving God and their com­mu­nity, men­tor­ing young people, and working along­side their little ones every day.

Allyson grad­u­ated from vet­eri­nary school in 2015 and moved back to the family farm to prac­tice large animal med­i­cine. She soon real­ized that her love of growing flowers could be a suc­cess­ful busi­ness. She started Slick Chick Blooms in 2018 and con­tin­ues to prac­tice vet­eri­nary med­i­cine part time.

Angela Ford is an avid home gar­dener from Eastern Wash­ing­ton, who enjoys a good fresh tomato sand­wich and pre­serv­ing produce for the winter to feed her large family. Wife of Steve for 31 yrs. mom to 5, and grandma of 3 pre­cious girls, Heaven, Eden, and Kaynen. 

Born in Brazil, Angel­ica moved to the US after her husband was called to pastor. Here they met a home­school­ing family. Impressed with the results, they decided that when their chil­dren were born, they would home­school. For 18 years she had this priv­i­lege. She and her husband now live at Oua­chita Hills College where their sons attend college.

Alis­tair cur­rently serves as the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of Audio­Verse, and is owner and finan­cial planner at Advent­Edge Finan­cial, LLC. He has pre­sented on many Bib­li­cal topics, par­tic­u­larly on per­sonal finance, at churches, con­fer­ences, and camp meet­ings around the world. In his free time, he enjoys tending to his home garden and orchard which includes a col­lec­tion of nearly 50 fig trees. He resides in Col­legedale, TN with his wife, Deborah, with whom he writes a per­sonal finance blog at Sav​ingTh​e​Crumbs​.com. Together they have two daugh­ters, Leilani and Liana, who look forward to fig season each year.

Chad & Fadia Kreuzer have a film min­istry called Anchor Point Films. They produce doc­u­men­taries on the Bible, History, and Health. Chad also has a Youtube channel on prac­ti­cal tips for country living and gar­den­ing, called Health and Homestead. 

Scott and his wife Linda are owners of Learned Garlic Farm located in Maple Plain, Min­nesota. Before start­ing their family 30 years ago they were con­victed to depart from their teach­ing careers to move to the country where they have owned and oper­ated their own cabinet shop. They enjoyed gar­den­ing together as they raised their three chil­dren and have recently expanded into a small garlic farm where they love to share their faith at farmer’s market and with other cus­tomers by pro­mot­ing the bless­ings of healthy living.

Gabriel & Von­nelle McClover are the owners of the Vine­yard Café & Juice Bar (estab. 2015) in Summerville,GA& Founders of the F.I.T.T. Chal­lenge. They have worked in GA& 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 a market and spe­cialty crop grower for 30 years. For the last 12 years he’s also been helping other growers with soil fer­til­ity and water quality. He’s the husband of 32 years to his wife Lisa, a father to 8 chil­dren and ​“Gramps” to 2 grandchildren. 

Kory and Jessica Meidell, based in Ardmore, OK, are ded­i­cated to true edu­ca­tion and dis­as­ter response. Jessica, a Dysinger Farm Appren­tice­ship Grad­u­ate, spe­cial­izes in search and rescue as a cer­ti­fied K‑9 handler with her dogs Levi and Dozer. Their exper­tise in tor­na­does, floods, earth­quakes, and missing persons cases brings hope to the dis­as­ter-stricken. Don’t miss the chance to witness the remark­able abil­i­ties of ​“man’s best friend” at our next conference!

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

Robert has been an edu­ca­tor for many years teach­ing high school chem­istry and physics, as well as outdoor edu­ca­tion, country living and dis­as­ter pre­pared­ness classes at youth summer camps and in the local com­mu­nity. He owns and oper­ates a green­house busi­ness where he sells herb and veggie starts for local farmers markets.

Kendra Nystrom enjoys all outdoor activ­i­ties from camping to skiing; but most of all she loves gar­den­ing. Growing good food and teach­ing others how to do it is her passion. Beyond that, she is ded­i­cated to serve Jesus and to share Him with others through agriculture.

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.

Dylan lives in Middle Ten­nessee, and is cur­rently Pro­duc­tion Leader for Farmers Friend LLC. His inter­ests include people, gardening/​homesteading, plants, animals, science, writing, music, entre­pre­neur­ship, per­sonal devel­op­ment, and cre­at­ing. He loves his won­der­ful family, Amanda (wife), Johann (oldest), Evelyn (middle), Desmond(youngest) and most of all, Jesus!

Tom & Alane left their thriv­ing medical careers in 1986 to move to Montana and raise their three small chil­dren to know Christ per­son­ally. In 1989 they co-founded the min­istry of Restora­tion Inter­na­tional to encour­age others in their walk with God, learn­ing how to have a vibrant, loving mar­riage and happy home.