Meet Ari

I was born in 1946 and received Adonai Yeshua HaMashiach [He was then known to me as “the LORD Jesus Christ”] as my personal Lord and Savior in 1952. My father was an Elder in our church, First Christian Church of Parkersburg, West Virginia, which had been planted by a great-grand-uncle who was one of the earliest Restoration Movement missionaries to what was then the western part of Virginia. By the time I was about 10 years old, I was active in my Sunday school, helping to teach the “little kids.” It was about that time that my father began his many years of service as Pastor to a number of different Brotherhood churches in the Mid-Ohio Valley, the Carolinas, and Pennsylvania. As “the preacher’s kid” it fell to me to teach children’s Sunday school classes in every church where Dad served. When I was 16 I was selected by the elders of our home church to serve in the office of Junior Deacon. The responsibilities of the Junior Deacons included assisting the Deacons and Elders in all of their responsibilities, and to attend church Board meetings as representatives of the Youth Department. I also held a number of leadership positions in our Youth Department until the time I left home to join the Navy.

The Navy sent me to serve as a Hospital Corpsman at the U.S. Naval Hospital on Guam during the Viet Nam war. I immediately became active in the base chapel, and when I expressed concern to our agnostic Lutheran Chaplain that I didn’t feel the young people were being adequately ministered to, he appointed me as Youth Pastor, in which office I enthusiastically served for the remainder of my two-year tour of duty.

While in the Navy I began to feel a general dissatisfaction with what I was finding in established “Christianity.” I became increasingly aware that was being taught “in church” was decidedly different from what I was reading in the Bible, and so to obtain more information on the subject I enrolled in some correspondence work at Johnson Bible College in Knoxville, Tennessee, where my father was enrolled at the time for his formal training to enter full-time pastoral ministry.

After being discharged from the Navy, I stayed in the San Francisco Bay Area where I met my bride. I earned an Associate’s Degree in Criminal Justice and served as a part-time peace officer with the sheriff’s department for seven years, while working in a government “think tank,” and earning my B.A. degree in business and my M.B.A. in organizational management.

The thesis that I wrote for my M.B.A. degree involved the application of proven secular business principles and practices to the business administration of the local church. We were very active in the local Assembly of God church at the time, where I was serving as a Deacon, adult Sunday School teacher, assistant choir director, and junior high pastor. Just about the time that I was finishing my thesis, my pastors (there were three full-time pastors at that time) approached me and asked if I had ever considered entering pastoral ministry. With their encouragement and support, as soon as I finished my M.B.A. program I enrolled at Bay Cities Bible Institute (now Bay Cities Bible College) in Berkeley in a program that would permit me to work on a Master of Arts degree in Bible through evening and weekend classes that I could manage to schedule around both my occupation and my ministry activities at the church.

Two years into my three-year M.A. program I was offered a faculty position at Spring Valley Bible College and Seminary (now Golden State School of Theology), also in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the promise of tuition assistance in exchange for my teaching and administrative services. I completed my Master of Theology, Doctor of Theology, and Doctor of Ministry degrees (all summa cum laude and valedictorian) at that school, and served them for several years in various teaching and administrative roles, which included Professor of Theology, Assistant Dean of Directed Individualized Studies, and Vice President of Academic Affairs, and I taught classes in Systematic Theology, Cults and World Religions, and English Grammar and Composition to undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students. One of my major accomplishments at Spring Valley was the redefinition of their entire academic program and reorganizing the academic program from a semester system to a quarter system, which allowed the school to expose their students to 30% more information in the same period of time, and the total reorganization and redefining of the school as Golden State School of Theology.

During my tenure at Spring Valley/Golden State I also served two churches as a bi-vocational Associate Pastor. I later participated in the startup of Grace School of Theology and Ministry in the Bay area, where I served for two years as Administrator, Registrar, and Director of Information Services, with the primary responsibility of establishing the school with the state and federal governments as a nonprofit corporation, and obtaining from the California Department of Post-Secondary Education the necessary authorization for the granting of academic degrees, and assisting in the development of the school’s curriculum.

Over the next several years I served as Associate Pastor of several different Baptist churches, and was ordained in 1991 by a multi-denominational Ordination Council that including Pastors from Assembly of God, American Baptist, Southern Baptist, Conservative Baptist, Independent Baptist, and Independent non-denominational congregations. We moved to Knoxville in 1992 and joined Ridgeview Baptist Church, where I served as a teacher in the adult department, and from which I provided much pulpit supply to area churches over the next three years. We moved again to West Virginia in 1995, where I did some more pulpit supply for the Southern Baptist Convention before joining an independent church as Associate Pastor in 1996.

With a strong educational background in Systematic Theology and over 20 years of bi-vocational pastoral ministry in a somewhat diverse group of denominations, I was left with the inescapable feeling that somehow there had to be “more” to true Biblical “religion” than is being taught in the churches. For nearly as long as I had been studying the Bible, I had felt that there was something terribly wrong with the rift between Christians and Jews. I simply could not understand (and still can't understand) why it is so difficult for Jews to understand that their Messiah has already come, just as the prophets said He would. I also found it very strange that Christians should have difficulty understanding that “Jesus” was a Torah-observant Jew who did not come to start another religion, but to show His Jewish brothers the correct way to have a relationship with God,[3] and that Christianity, when correctly understood, is actually a branch of Judaism. It was also extremely difficult for me to clearly understand for many years why it was that the more I studied the Scriptures, the more I found myself thinking and feeling “Jewish.”

In 1985 my family was privileged to participate in a tour of Israel, and to my total amazement I found that for the first time in my memory, I felt truly at home—as though I had finally returned to the place for which I had been homesick my whole life. Even with the ever-present threat of terrorism, I felt more at peace and much safer on the streets of Jerusalem at two o’clock in the morning than I ever felt on the streets of San Francisco at two o’clock in the afternoon.

It was about that time that my mother, our family historian, discovered genealogical records of my father’s ancestors through his mother. My paternal grandmother had died while my father was in his early teens, and neither my father nor my grandfather had any detailed knowledge of her family roots. What my mother’s research uncovered was that my grandmother was a Jew whose ancestors all bore traditional Jewish names like Joseph, the son of Issacher, the son of Joseph, the son of Jacob, the son of Solomon, the son of John, the son of Israel, the son of John, and so on back to 1474. Their family name Levitt or Leavitt traces back to various spellings, all very similar in form to the name Levite, which was the name for the descendants of Levi who served in the Tabernacle and later in the Temple. Unfortunately, documentation for my father’s father’s lineage is only traceable to his grandfather, who was adopted with no other family records. My mother is now tracing her side of the family tree to see if additional Jewish roots can be found.

Can it be mere coincidence that I have for so long felt Jewish to the very depths of my soul? Is there some deep-rooted “racial memory” struggling to surface into my conscious mind? Can it be (God forbid!) that I am becoming “mystical” in my old age? Is this how people feel who believe they have been abducted by UFOs? Has the crew of a UFO abducted me in the middle of some starless night, and have little gray men implanted these feelings into my mind? Are there others somewhere in the world who share these same feelings, or are they mine alone? Or am I simply “weird”?

Or can it be that in these Last Days the LORD is calling out the remnant from the ten “Lost Tribes” of Israel [those of Jewish heritage who, like me, have not know their ancestry and have thus been separated from their birthright] in preparation for the final restoration of His Kingdom on earth? Is there any Bible evidence to support such a notion? If so, am I one of those being called out? [The answers to those questions are among the many issues that will be addressed in great detail during this series of studies.]

It was my burning desire to find answers to those questions that started me on the quest for my “Jewish Roots.” How could I hang on to those beliefs I had developed over years of study, prayer, and meditation on God’s word, and yet be able to experience the “Jewishness” that my soul craved? I began searching the Internet for answers, looking for someone—anyone—who felt as I did.

I contacted Jews for Jesus seeking information on how I could learn about my lost Jewish heritage without giving up my Messiah. They told me that I should simply be satisfied that I was a Christian and let it go; I already had Jesus and didn’t need to know about anything Jewish. I contacted the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (my “own folks” at the time) because they have a website on which they talk about the necessity of “planting Messianic synagogues.” They told me that they couldn’t be bothered to help me in my quest, because “there aren’t enough Jews in West Virginia to make it worth our time.” [There are only an estimated 40 to 50 Jewish families in the five-county area where I live.] I contacted several other “Jewish outreach ministries” and they all seemed to be interested in only one thing: converting Jews into Gentile Christians. I didn’t feel like that would do me much good, because I already was one of those!

Then in early 2000 I came across an organization called “Messianic Bureau International,” which seemed to be exactly what I was looking for. The Director of the organization is a very personable gentleman who has a background very similar to my own. He is now a Messianic Rabbi, but was formerly a pastor with the Assemblies of God, and his grandparents were Jewish. He has been most helpful, and the materials from his ministry have been excellent sources of information. Since affiliating with both MBI and the Messianic Israel Alliance [the use of whose source materials I also gratefully acknowledge], I have met (via correspondence only) a number of other leaders in the “Messianic Movement,” and there seems to be a common trend among most of those with whom I have had contact: they have brought most of their denominational “sacred cows” into the Movement with them. The result is that within the Movement there seem to be approximately the same numbers of interpretations of Messianic Judaism as there are Christian Denominations and Jewish Sects from which these men came.

However, to my great relief I have discovered that I am not alone. There are literally hundreds of thousands, or perhaps even millions, of people just like me in their desire to worship Yeshua HaMashiach as He was worshipped in the first century, remembering that there were almost no Gentile believers in Messiah until well into the second century. At this writing, according to one Internet source, there are an estimated three million people involved in various forms of Messianic Judaism worldwide.

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	MINI BIOGRAPHY I was born in 1946 and received Adonai Yeshua HaMashiach [He was then known to me as “the LORD Jesus Christ”] as my personal Lord and Savior in 1952. My father was an Elder in our church, First Christian Church of Parkersburg, West Virginia, which had been planted by a great-grand-uncle who was one of the earliest Restoration Movement missionaries to what was then the western part of Virginia. By the time I was about 10 years old, I was active in my Sunday school, helping to teach the “little kids.” It was about that time that my father began his many years of service as Pastor to a number of different Brotherhood churches in the Mid-Ohio Valley, the Carolinas, and Pennsylvania. As “the preacher’s kid” it fell to me to teach children’s Sunday school classes in every church where Dad served. When I was 16 I was selected by the elders of our home church to serve in the office of Junior Deacon. The responsibilities of the Junior Deacons included assisting the Deacons and Elders in all of their responsibilities, and to attend church Board meetings as representatives of the Youth Department. I also held a number of leadership positions in our Youth Department until the time I left home to join the Navy. The Navy sent me to serve as a Hospital Corpsman at the U.S. Naval Hospital on Guam during the Viet Nam war. I immediately became active in the base chapel, and when I expressed concern to our agnostic Lutheran Chaplain that I didn’t feel the young people were being adequately ministered to, he appointed me as Youth Pastor, in which office I enthusiastically served for the remainder of my two-year tour of duty. While in the Navy I began to feel a general dissatisfaction with what I was finding in established “Christianity.” I became increasingly aware that was being taught “in church” was decidedly different from what I was reading in the Bible, and so to obtain more information on the subject I enrolled in some correspondence work at Johnson Bible College in Knoxville, Tennessee, where my father was enrolled at the time for his formal training to enter full-time pastoral ministry. After being discharged from the Navy, I stayed in the San Francisco Bay Area where I met my bride. I earned an Associate’s Degree in Criminal Justice and served as a part-time peace officer with the sheriff’s department for seven years, while working in a government “think tank,” and earning my B.A. degree in business and my M.B.A. in organizational management. The thesis that I wrote for my M.B.A. degree involved the application of proven secular business principles and practices to the business administration of the local church. We were very active in the local Assembly of God church at the time, where I was serving as a Deacon, adult Sunday School teacher, assistant choir director, and junior high pastor. Just about the time that I was finishing my thesis, my pastors (there were three full-time pastors at that time) approached me and asked if I had ever considered entering pastoral ministry. With their encouragement and support, as soon as I finished my M.B.A. program I enrolled at Bay Cities Bible Institute (now Bay Cities Bible College) in Berkeley in a program that would permit me to work on a Master of Arts degree in Bible through evening and weekend classes that I could manage to schedule around both my occupation and my ministry activities at the church. Two years into my three-year M.A. program I was offered a faculty position at Spring Valley Bible College and Seminary (now Golden State School of Theology), also in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the promise of tuition assistance in exchange for my teaching and administrative services. I completed my Master of Theology, Doctor of Theology, and Doctor of Ministry degrees (all summa cum laude and valedictorian) at that school, and served them for several years in various teaching and administrative roles, which included Professor of Theology, Assistant Dean of Directed Individualized Studies, and Vice President of Academic Affairs, and I taught classes in Systematic Theology, Cults and World Religions, and English Grammar and Composition to undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students. One of my major accomplishments at Spring Valley was the redefinition of their entire academic program and reorganizing the academic program from a semester system to a quarter system, which allowed the school to expose their students to 30% more information in the same period of time, and the total reorganization and redefining of the school as Golden State School of Theology. During my tenure at Spring Valley/Golden State I also served two churches as a bi-vocational Associate Pastor. I later participated in the startup of Grace School of Theology and Ministry in the Bay area, where I served for two years as Administrator, Registrar, and Director of Information Services, with the primary responsibility of establishing the school with the state and federal governments as a nonprofit corporation, and obtaining from the California Department of Post-Secondary Education the necessary authorization for the granting of academic degrees, and assisting in the development of the school’s curriculum. Over the next several years I served as Associate Pastor of several different Baptist churches, and was ordained in 1991 by a multi-denominational Ordination Council that including Pastors from Assembly of God, American Baptist, Southern Baptist, Conservative Baptist, Independent Baptist, and Independent non-denominational congregations. We moved to Knoxville in 1992 and joined Ridgeview Baptist Church, where I served as a teacher in the adult department, and from which I provided much pulpit supply to area churches over the next three years. We moved again to West Virginia in 1995, where I did some more pulpit supply for the Southern Baptist Convention before joining an independent church as Associate Pastor in 1996. With a strong educational background in Systematic Theology and over 20 years of bi-vocational pastoral ministry in a somewhat diverse group of denominations, I was left with the inescapable feeling that somehow there had to be “more” to true Biblical “religion” than is being taught in the churches. For nearly as long as I had been studying the Bible, I had felt that there was something terribly wrong with the rift between Christians and Jews. I simply could not understand (and still can't understand) why it is so difficult for Jews to understand that their Messiah has already come, just as the prophets said He would. I also found it very strange that Christians should have difficulty understanding that “Jesus” was a Torah-observant Jew who did not come to start another religion, but to show His Jewish brothers the correct way to have a relationship with God,[3] and that Christianity, when correctly understood, is actually a branch of Judaism. It was also extremely difficult for me to clearly understand for many years why it was that the more I studied the Scriptures, the more I found myself thinking and feeling “Jewish.” In 1985 my family was privileged to participate in a tour of Israel, and to my total amazement I found that for the first time in my memory, I felt truly at home—as though I had finally returned to the place for which I had been homesick my whole life. Even with the ever-present threat of terrorism, I felt more at peace and much safer on the streets of Jerusalem at two o’clock in the morning than I ever felt on the streets of San Francisco at two o’clock in the afternoon. It was about that time that my mother, our family historian, discovered genealogical records of my father’s ancestors through his mother. My paternal grandmother had died while my father was in his early teens, and neither my father nor my grandfather had any detailed knowledge of her family roots. What my mother’s research uncovered was that my grandmother was a Jew whose ancestors all bore traditional Jewish names like Joseph, the son of Issacher, the son of Joseph, the son of Jacob, the son of Solomon, the son of John, the son of Israel, the son of John, and so on back to 1474. Their family name Levitt or Leavitt traces back to various spellings, all very similar in form to the name Levite, which was the name for the descendants of Levi who served in the Tabernacle and later in the Temple. Unfortunately, documentation for my father’s father’s lineage is only traceable to his grandfather, who was adopted with no other family records. My mother is now tracing her side of the family tree to see if additional Jewish roots can be found. Can it be mere coincidence that I have for so long felt Jewish to the very depths of my soul? Is there some deep-rooted “racial memory” struggling to surface into my conscious mind? Can it be (God forbid!) that I am becoming “mystical” in my old age? Is this how people feel who believe they have been abducted by UFOs? Has the crew of a UFO abducted me in the middle of some starless night, and have little gray men implanted these feelings into my mind? Are there others somewhere in the world who share these same feelings, or are they mine alone? Or am I simply “weird”? Or can it be that in these Last Days the LORD is calling out the remnant from the ten “Lost Tribes” of Israel [those of Jewish heritage who, like me, have not know their ancestry and have thus been separated from their birthright] in preparation for the final restoration of His Kingdom on earth? Is there any Bible evidence to support such a notion? If so, am I one of those being called out? [The answers to those questions are among the many issues that will be addressed in great detail during this series of studies.] It was my burning desire to find answers to those questions that started me on the quest for my “Jewish Roots.” How could I hang on to those beliefs I had developed over years of study, prayer, and meditation on God’s word, and yet be able to experience the “Jewishness” that my soul craved? I began searching the Internet for answers, looking for someone—anyone—who felt as I did. I contacted Jews for Jesus seeking information on how I could learn about my lost Jewish heritage without giving up my Messiah. They told me that I should simply be satisfied that I was a Christian and let it go; I already had Jesus and didn’t need to know about anything Jewish. I contacted the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (my “own folks” at the time) because they have a website on which they talk about the necessity of “planting Messianic synagogues.” They told me that they couldn’t be bothered to help me in my quest, because “there aren’t enough Jews in West Virginia to make it worth our time.” [There are only an estimated 40 to 50 Jewish families in the five-county area where I live.] I contacted several other “Jewish outreach ministries” and they all seemed to be interested in only one thing: converting Jews into Gentile Christians. I didn’t feel like that would do me much good, because I already was one of those! Then in early 2000 I came across an organization called “Messianic Bureau International,” which seemed to be exactly what I was looking for. The Director of the organization is a very personable gentleman who has a background very similar to my own. He is now a Messianic Rabbi, but was formerly a pastor with the Assemblies of God, and his grandparents were Jewish. He has been most helpful, and the materials from his ministry have been excellent sources of information. Since affiliating with both MBI and the Messianic Israel Alliance [the use of whose source materials I also gratefully acknowledge], I have met (via correspondence only) a number of other leaders in the “Messianic Movement,” and there seems to be a common trend among most of those with whom I have had contact: they have brought most of their denominational “sacred cows” into the Movement with them. The result is that within the Movement there seem to be approximately the same numbers of interpretations of Messianic Judaism as there are Christian Denominations and Jewish Sects from which these men came. However, to my great relief I have discovered that I am not alone. There are literally hundreds of thousands, or perhaps even millions, of people just like me in their desire to worship Yeshua HaMashiach as He was worshipped in the first century, remembering that there were almost no Gentile believers in Messiah until well into the second century. At this writing, according to one Internet source, there are an estimated three million people involved in various forms of Messianic Judaism worldwide.	EDUCATION Parkersburg (WV) High School, 1963 Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA, 1973: Associate in Arts (AA) in Criminal Justice (Honors) University of Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, CA, 1978: Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Business University of Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, CA, 1980: Master of Business dministration (MBA) in Organizational Management with an emphasis in Church Administration Bay Cities Bible Institute, Oakland, CA, 1981-1983: Completed 66 of 90 units toward a Master of Arts (MA) in Biblical Studies before transferring to Th.M. program Spring Valley Bible College and Seminary, Alameda, CA, 1984: Master of Theology (ThM) with an emphasis in Systematic Theology (summa cum laude, valedictorian) Spring Valley Bible College and Seminary, Alameda, CA, 1984: Doctor of Theology (ThD) with an emphasis in Cults and Comparative Religion (summa cum laude, valedictorian) Golden State School of Theology, Oakland, CA, 1985: Doctor of Ministry (DMin) with an emphasis in Curriculum Development and Bible College Administration (summa cum laude, valedictorian) Additional undergraduate and technical studies at: College of Guam, Agaña, Guam, 1966 West Virginia University, Parkersburg, WV, 1963–1964 Berean School of the Bible, Springfield, MO, 1980–1981 Johnson Bible College, Knoxville, TN, 1966 DeVry Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 1973–1977, Electronics Contra Costa County Reserve Peace Officer Academy, Martinez, CA 1973 Electronics Training Lab, Emeryville, CA, Electronics St. Joseph's Medical Center, Parkersburg, WV, 1968, Surgical Technician Hewlett-Packard/Sanborn Service School, 1967 Advanced EKG Technician United States Navy Service Schools, 1963–1967, Hospital Corpsman, Neuropsychiatric Technician, Electroencephalograph Technician, Electrocardiograph Technician WORK EXPERIENCE (Hey, I've been doing this for a long time!!) Ministry History Congregation B'Nei HaMelech (Children of the King), Parkersburg, WV; Messianic Pastor/Teacher [Web Site] Abundant Life Health Ministries, Parkersburg, WV; Herb Shop & Natural Health Clinic, providing pastoral and wellness counseling [Web Site] First Christian Fellowship, Parkersburg, WV; Associate Pastor/Teacher Ridgeview Baptist Church, Knoxville, TN; Ordained Minister, Adult Bible Teacher Camino Community Church, Camino, CA; Ordained Minister, Pastoral Assistant, Church Chairman, Church Administrator Christian Fellowship Church [now named Grace Bible Church], Pleasant Hill, CA; Licensed Minister, Christian Education Consultant, Liaison to Grace School of Theology and Ministry, Chairman of Adult Sunday School Department Grace School of Theology and Ministry, Pleasant Hill, CA; School Administrator, Cataloging Librarian, MIS Director Foothills Community Church, Moraga, CA; Founding Elder, Teaching Elder, Associate Pastor/Teacher Golden State School of Theology, Oakland, CA; Vice President for Academic Affairs, Chairman of Curriculum Development and Academic Committees, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, Assistant Dean of Directed Individualized Studies, Professor of Theology and Comparative Religion, Instructor of English Grammar and Composition Martinez Christian Fellowship, Martinez, CA; Associate Pastor Bethel Temple Assembly of God, Walnut Creek, CA; Interim Youth Minister, Junior High Minister, Assistant Choir Director, Bible Teacher U.S. Naval Hospital Chapel, Agaña, Guam, Mariana Islands; Youth Minister First Christian Church, Parkersburg, WV; Received Yeshua HaMashiach as personal LORD and Savior at age 6, Began assisting with children’s Sunday School teaching at age 10, Began teaching children’s Sunday School at age 14, Selected to serve as Junior Deacon at age 15 Secular Experience Nearly 40 years of career experience in management and administration in a wide diversity of business environments. Successfully managed staffs of more than 75 subordinates with annual budgets in excess of $6 million. Abundant Life Herb Shop and Natural Health Center, Parkersburg, WV Certified Natural Health Professional, Herb Specialist, Iridologist, Naturopathic Doctor candidate. Provides natural health information and consultation in the following modalities: Western and Chinese herbology, nutrition, iridology, body work and relaxation techniques, applied kinesiology, electromagnetic therapy, Biblical and pastoral counseling. [Web Site] First Nationwide Bank, Daly City and Folsom, CA Senior Information Systems Security Consultant, Director of Data Center Security, Data Security Manager The Hibernia Bank, San Francisco, CA Director of Corporate Information Security Central Bank, Concord, CA Data Center Security Manager, Operations Projects Manager, Assistant Operations Manager Fairchild Test Systems Division, San Jose, CA Senior Business and Systems Analyst, Senior Methods and Procedures Analyst, Division Policies and Procedures Administrator Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department, Martinez, CA Deputy Sheriff-Coroner, Patrol Sergeant MBAssociates, San Ramon, CA Technical Data and Configuration Management Group Manager, Technical Publications Manager, Prototype Lab Supervisor National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological Disease and Blindness Research Center, Agaña, Guam Technical Consultant in Electroencephalography. Participated in some of the government's earliest research into Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and related neuromuscular disorders. Government of Guam, Department of Health, Guam Memorial Hospital, Agaña, Guam Technical Consultant in Neuropsychiatric Technique. Assisted in the design, construction, and startup of the first civilian neuropsychiatric facility in the Trust Territories of the Mariana Islands. Government of Guam, Project Head Start Technical Consultant in Psychology. Assisted in the development of the first psychological testing materials specific to the ethnic requirements of the Pacific Islands. (Told ya’ I’be been doing stuff a long time!) FAVORITE THINGS Interests • Messianic Judaism and Ministry • Natural Health and Healing: Certified Natural Health Professional; studying for a Naturopathic Doctor degree; operate a Natural Health Clinic and Herb Shop with my bride Relaxation • Spending quality time with my family • Computers; particularly, computers in ministry • Emergency Service Radio Monitoring • Science Fiction: Star Trek (all versions), Babylon 5, X-files, Dr. Who, anything by Pierce Anthony Foods • Mexican • Chinese • Italian (Favorite pizza? East of Chicago)