Thursday, April 8, 2004 TODAY
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- Week of Devotion features Kansas Avenue Adventist Church senior pastor
- LLU commended by European Medical association newsletter
Week of Devotion features Kansas Avenue Adventist Church senior pastor
 Jesse L. Wilson, DMin |
The Loma Linda University Week of Devotion, in progress this week, highlights Jesse L. Wilson, DMin, senior pastor, Kansas Avenue Seventh-day Adventist Church, Riverside.
Dr. Wilson is a native of Memphis, Tennessee, and a graduate of Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama. He received his master of divinity degree from Andrews Theological Seminary (now Andrews University), Berrien Springs, Michigan, and later his doctor of ministry degree from Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California.
A son of the south, he pastored in Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi; before transferring to the Fifth Street Church in Perris, California. He is currently the senior pastor of Kansas Avenue Church in Riverside, California, the largest African-American Adventist congregation on the West Coast. The church is recognized as a center for wholistic worship and progressive community-based ministry.
Dr. Wilson is a respected voice in the area of police misconduct, racial profiling, and civil rights. When racial tensions exploded in Riverside in 1999, he was asked to take a leadership role and became the president of the Tyisha Miller steering committee. He coordinated community rallies and fact-finding forums with the Department of Justice, S.C.L.C., Operation Push, Al Sharpton, Johnny Cochran, Dick Gregory, and many more. He appeared regularly on the major television networks in Southern California, along with B.E.T. and Court TV.
His expertise is sought out on numerous boards and committees, and he currently serves on the One California Commission for Diversity and Equality, an appointment of Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamonte.
He is a licensed church growth consultant and much traveled presenter at camp meetings, officers training events, ministers conferences, and local churches across the country and internationally. His wife, Cheri, is a special education teacher. They have four children, Justin, Jared, Jessica, and Cara.
Loma Linda University chapel programs are sponsored by the office of student affairs and are held in Gentry Gymnasium on the Loma Linda campus. Programs are held every Wednesday from 8:10 to 9:00 a.m.
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Loma Linda University was commended in an article published in the Summer, 2003, European Medical Newsletter on Smoking Cessation.
The newsletter noted that Loma Linda University was the recipient of the Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe's trophy for nonsmoking in 1999.
"Institutions [receiving the award] included Loma Linda University (the home of the famous Seventh-day Adventist ‘Five-day smoking cessation plan' of the 1950s which was applied in the World Health Organization when the organization went smoke-free on World Health Day, April 7, 1987), several Chinese medical schools, the American Medical Association, and the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland."
The Goethe Award was presented to Loma Linda University in 1999 by Fredrich Portheine, MD, the founder of the Goethe Award, for Loma Linda's promotion of a smoke-free campus.
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