SPEAKERS & PRESENTERS
T homas B entley is an ordained minister in the Kentucky-Ten-
nessee Conference with theological training at the Adventist
Theological Seminary, combined with graduate and postgraduate
degrees in Engineering. His many years of experience working
in applied science provided him with an engineer’s eye to the
creation/evolution debate. Bentley has two books written about
science and creation. Have you Swallowed the Hook and How to
Think About Science in the Age of Evolution have been broadcast
on Amazing Discoveries and Better Life Television.
G ordon B otting is the financial educator and stewardship direc-
tor for the Pacific Union Conference. In this capacity, for the last
twenty-two years he has developed money management mate-
rials and regularly conducted financial workshops and steward-
ship seminars both statewide and nationally. Botting is a widely
published author and has developed a number of practical money
management seminar workbooks. In addition, he has written nu-
merous practical money management articles for both American
and Australian magazines. For over twenty years, he has pro-
duced and written a monthy bulletin insert the Stewpot. He lives in Lincoln Hills,
California with his wife, Margaret. They have two married children Tim and Angela
and five grandchildren.
R ocky D avis began full-time canvassing right out of Mt. Vernon
Academy. At 18, without a car, his adventure started in the Mt.
View Conference. Since that time, he has accumulated a total of
33 years in the literature ministry. The first 17 years in the adult
literature ministry, then 13 years in the student magabook minis-
try, with 11 of those years as the Youth Outreach Coordinator for
the Southern Union. He now serves as the Kentucky-Tennessee
Conference Publishing and Religious Liberty Director. He is
married to Rachel Oleta and is the proud father of 2 adult chil-
dren and two boys, 10 and 12.
A lbert D ittes is a semi-retired, freelance musician/writer living
in Portland, Tennessee. Dittes has written about local Adventist
history, including two books about the Madison College pioneers
and one on early Adventism in Kentucky and Tennessee. His lat-
est book, Three Adventist Titans: The Significance of Heeding or
Rejecting the Counsel of Ellen White, profiles three prominent
founders of Adventist medical work.
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