Daniel Velez Wagner

Daniel Velez Wagner has a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Management, and has made it his mission to keep the church at the edge of modern technology. He has been in charge of the AV department since the beginning of our church. He studies Aviation and Germanic languages, and enjoys traveling, spending time in nature, horseback…

Mariko Kinjo

Mariko is a 5th generation musician, who was educated in the Adventist school system from Elementary to High-school in Japan. She graduated from Kobe College with a double major in pipe organ performance and music education, with additional postgraduate training in pipe organ performance. She has years of teaching/conducting and piano/organ performance experiences in Japan…

MaryAnn Krueger

Maryann grew up in Texas, where she met her husband, Kirk, at Southwestern Adventist University. They raised their family of five children in Colorado and Tennessee before moving to California in 2014 to put their children in school at Weimar Institute (now Weimar University). Hired in 2014 to be the library manager at Weimar University,…

Ion Bazgan

Born in communist and predominantly orthodox Romania, Ion emigrated to the US with his brother and parents when he was 12 years old. As a teenager and young adult, Ion grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended UC Davis, where he earned degrees in Economics and German. More than half of his…

Parvinder Nelson

Parvinder was born in New Delhi, India, in a Sikh family. She became a Seventh-Day-Adventist at age twenty-six when she realized that Jesus loved her personally and gave Himself for her. She loves her Lord and does whatever she can to hasten His soon coming. She is married to Philippe Nelson and has three wonderful…

Melissa Garcia

Melissa has been privileged to be involved in her church in multiple ways, from being a student church board member at her college church and director of creative ministries, to song service coordinator, inreach leadership team member, and others. Currently she is blessed to serve her Lord as head deaconess and as co-leader of Women’s…

Allan Frappier

Allan and his wife Bonni have three daughters, Jessica, Makayla and Alaina. He and his family moved from Northern MI in 2018 to the Weimar area. He studied engineering in Northern Michigan at Lake Superior State University where he graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Currently he is a Resident Engineer who manages the…

Dojčin Živadinović

Dojčin Živadinović, Ph.D. was Born in Croatia, Mediterranean Europe. He has a BA and MA in Theology from Collonges University in France and Ph.D. from Andrews University, Michigan. He has also completed the Weimar Institute HEALTH Lifestyle Coaching Certificate. Currently teaching Theology and Religion at Weimar College, CA. Married with one wife, Ana, and has…

Randall Steffens Jr

Randall Steffens II has taught at Philippines Amazing Facts Center of Evangelism, was the interim director of the Sarata Noua School of Evangelism in Moldova, taught at the Herghelia School of Evangelism in Romania, and was assistant to Pastor Don Macintosh in running the HEALTH Evangelism Program at Weimar University. He has held Bible Prophecy…