Schedule 2024
Here is our schedule and upcoming speakers for the 2024 Med Missionary Conference.
Med Missionary Conference Program
October 23- Wednesday
3:00 pm – 7:00 pm Registration
7:00 pm -8:00 pm Plenary – Dr Joyce Choe
8:00 pm-9:00 pm Exhibitor Hall
October 24 – Thursday
6:30 -7:00 am Prayer Session – Dr Anabel and Dr Joyce
7:15 – 8:15 am Morning Devotional – Ernie Layon
9:00- 10:00 am Breakfast
10:00- 11:30 am “Herbal Medicine Making” – Kim Layon
11:30 -12:00 pm Food Demonstration – Mercy Ballard
12:00- 1:00 pm “My Faith Journey | Dental Anthropology and the 144,000 Pt. 1” – Dr Hyun
1:00 – 2:00 pm Exhibitor Hall
2:30- 3:30 pm Lunch
3:30 -4:30 pm “Our Journey” – Dr. Mario and Alejandra Robinson
4:30 – 5:30 pm “My Faith Journey | Dental Anthropology and the 144,000 Pt. 2” – Dr. Hyun
6:30 – 7:00 pm “Whole-Food Plant-Based Protocols for an Autoimmune Disorder: Preliminary Advances of a Case Report” – Dr. Juan Carlos
7:00 – 8:00 pm Plenary – Dr. Joyce Choe
8:00- 9:00 pm Exhibitor Hall
October 25 – Friday
6:30 -7:00 am Prayer Session – Dr Anabel and Dr Joyce
7:15 – 8:15 am Morning Devotional – Ernie Layon
9:00- 10:00 am Breakfast
10:00- 11:00 am “Becoming Medical Missionaries” – James and Daryl Kirley
11:00 -12:00 pm “Inflammation in Your Heart” – Dr. Anabel Facemire
12:00- 1:00 pm “Death Begins in the Gut, Importance of the Microbiome and Leaky Gut” – Dr. Bill Sweatt
1:00 – 2:00 pm Exhibitor Hall
2:30- 3:30 pm Lunch
3:30 -4:30 pm “Natural Remedies” – Dr. Arvi
4:30 – 5:30 pm “The Spanish and Portuguese Med Missionary Team at Work” – Sonia Salinas and Joyce Belew
6:30 – 7:00 pm “Med Missionaries in Action” – Mercy Ballard
7:00 – 8:00 pm Plenary – Dr Joyce Choe
8:00- 9:00 pm Exhibitor Hall
October 26 – Saturday
6:30 -7:00 am Prayer Session – Dr Anabel and Dr Joyce
7:15 – 8:15 am Morning Devotional – Ernie Layon
9:00- 10:00 am Breakfast
10:00- 11:00 am “Who’s in Charge? The Gut-Brain Connection” – Dr. Bill Sweatt
11:00 -11:30 pm Worship and Music / Med Missionaries in Action
11:30- 12:30 pm Worship Service
12:30 – 2:30 pm Exhibitor Hall
2:30- 3:30 pm Lunch
3:30 -4:30 pm “The Microbiome and Health Reform: To Fit a People for the Coming of the Lord” – Dr. Bill
4:30 – 5:30 pm “Natural Medical Practice” – Dr. Arvi
6:30 – 7:00 pm “Med Missionaries in Action” – Mercy Ballard
7:00 – 8:00 pm Plenary – Dr Joyce Choe
8:00- 9:00 pm Exhibitor Hall
October 27 – Sunday
6:30 -7:00 am Prayer Session – Dr Anabel + Dr Joyce
7:15 – 8:15 am Morning Devotional – Dr. Joyce Choe & Mercy
9:00- 10:00 am Breakfast
10:00- 11:30 am Exhibitor Hall
Our Speakers
Dr. Hyun Bang, DDS
She currently serves as the Health Minister at Cambrian Park SDA Church and directs the Revive Ministries Health-Gospel programs. By God’s calling, she founded Revive Ministries for both Adventists and the Community, during the recent pandemic, to spread the love of Jesus and the Three Angels’ Messages. As part of the early development team of the MedMissionary.com training program, Dr Bang helped establish the new training web platform and its workflow. MedMissionary.com now teaches the Therapeutic Protocol to missionaries globally.
As a clinician, Dr Bang has a unique practice in the field of Airway Dentistry and takes an Holistic Non-Surgical approach to treating Malocclusion related to Sleep Disordered Breathing. God breathed the breath of life into our nostrils. Dr Bang helps patients restore their ability to breathe through their nose which increases oxygenation of the body, improves Sleep Quality, and reduces risk of Dental Disease. In turn her patient experience true healing. Dr Hyun Bang is a Diplomate of the American Sleep and Breathing Academy.
Anabel Facemire MD, FACC
She is board-certified non-invasive cardiologist with a special interest in prevention, treatment and reversal of chronic diseases through lifestyle modifications with a wholisitc approach. Her treatment approach focuses on the latest evidence-based medicine, bolstered by teaching the benefits of nutrition, exercise, stress management and spiritual support.
Dr. Facemire’s journey started with the illness of her own son. After going to numerous specialists and experimenting with several combinations of treatments unsuccessfully, she finally embraced a whole food plant-based diet that changed the destiny of her family’s health and of her patients. As she started to teach her patients individually, in group sessions, through seminars and conferences, many of them experienced reversal of disease, decrease in the number of medications and powerful health transformations.
The most recent life changing event occurred during the Covid pandemic, when she was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. Thankfully, her faith in God, a new approach to treating her illness with food and her perseverance in following the principles learned at Years Restored Lifestyle Center recovered her health completely. Now, she is passionate about sharing those principles with those in need of abundant health.
Dr. Facemire completed her fellowship training in cardiovascular disease at Mount Sinai Medical Center’s Cardiology Division in New York City. She believes that God wants to bring physical and spiritual healing to a world in great need of whole-person healing. Her husband, Fred, and children, Melody and Ethan are currently supporting a school in Castle Valley, Utah.
Dr. Bill Sweatt IM, GI
He is currently is a gastroenterology specialist and has over 20 years of experience in the medical field. He is board certified in Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine and specializes in Gastroenterology in Lake Jackson, Texas, where he helped to develop and build a practice and endoscopy center offering clinical, endoscopic, laboratory, infusion, and pathology services. In addition, he provides a lifestyle and preventive medicine wellness program for the community improving general health, specific diseases, and developing cooking / gardening skills.
Dr. Sweatt is a native Texan who has a strong interest in science and business. He holds a biology degree from Amherst College in Massachusetts and completed a management training program with Merrill Lynch in New York City, Princeton New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Chicago. His professional experiences encompass Merrill Lynch Pacific Fund and Merrill Lynch International Economics section, before matriculating at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, with subsequent internal medicine residency at UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas, and a gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Chicago. He has experience with many labs including the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda Maryland, National Institute on Aging at the NIH in Baltimore, Xerox lab in Dallas, Texas, becoming a Xerox Minority Technical Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholar working jointly with immunology lab at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, and a Fogarty International Clinical Fellow at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, Africa. Dr. Sweatt is also a member of the Board of Directors for Vivacelle Bio Inc.
Dr. Juan Carlos Quispe MD
He is originally from Perú, who grew up in the Collao plateau of the Andes Mountains, eating quinoa, kaniwa and kiwicha, in an environmemt of healthy lifestyle, at home. He then, moved to Mexico for medical training at the Universidad de Montemorelos, where he also received more nutrition and healthy lifestyle education.
After medical school he started his own General and Urgent medical practice, and during that time he was immersed in basic and clinical science research, initially at the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon in Mexico, then, at Denver Health Medical Center – University of Colorado, and Loma Linda University Medical Center. Most recently, he moved to the US and started medical residency at Loma Linda University Health in California.
He has several publications in the surgical field and has presented his work in different conferences. Currently, he is involved in a study investigating the results of applying a whole food plant-based diet protocol, and aims to continue to be involved in more lifestyle research projects.
James and Daryl Kirtley
James was deep into drugs, alcohol, rock and roll music and all that goes along with that when God found him at 21 years old. He was given the book Steps to Christ which did lead him to Christ right at the time when he was at his lowest and wanted to commit suicide. In one night he was freed from drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and all the vices. He then devoted hours into studying the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy books whereas before those hours were spent in rock and roll music and vices.He began reading the sop and health books of Ellen White and became a vegan at 21. He also started sharing his new found love and faith with others. Two years later he went to do mission work in Mexico distributing thousands of pieces of literature and sharing with people. Then he went to Costa Rica and Central America. Then he went to the Philippines in 1993 where he met Daryl and they were married soon after.
They then teamed up and did mission work together. Through God’s Providential leading they were led into medical missionary work which is the right arm of the gospel. This has become their passion and God has been bringing sick and dying people to them for health education and healing for more than 2 decades now. They conduct cleansing and detox programs for the reversal of chronic and degenerative diseases. They also do health seminars and cooking classes in churches all over the Philippines and the US. They have also done health seminars and lectures in schools and government offices in the Philippines. For more than 2 decades they have prayed for a lifestyle center in the country where they can do their detox programs. Previously they were operating out of a 2 bedroom apartment in a small town in the Philippines. 2 years ago, during pandemic, the Lord opened the way for the construction. They now have Taste of Eden Lifestyle and Education Center. Their lifestyle center is now in operation and more work and development is needed.
In connection with the medical missionary work, James does evangelistic meetings all over the Philippines as well. We are told that medical missionary work and the gospel should never be separated. James presents the Present Truth messages of the Bible and Daryl gives the health lectures and food demos during their Evangelistic meetings. They also conduct Medical Missionary training and Revival series and Week of Prayer meetings where they are invited.
Ernie and Kim Layon
Ernie and Kim lived in San Diego, California up to 2017. That year they received a conviction to leave the city and move to the country. Hanging only on the promises of God, they left their careers to pursue a higher calling. Their ministry is geared toward sharing their experiences and testimonies to encourage those to trust and obey God and see the blessings that will come and the faith that will grow stronger. Their experiences are documented on their youtube channel “City Exodus”. They currently live in Southeast Arizona and are in the process of opening their Off Grid Home Sanitarium called “The Heart of the Desert Wellness and Health”. They currently travel doing the gospel medical missionary work helping people with various diseases and training others to this work of sharing the gospel through the health message. Their hope is that these messages will encourage others to make their homes into sanitariums to do this great work of leading people closer to Christ for these times.
Dr. Mario Robinson MD
Dr. Mario and Alejandra Robinson own and operate a Lifestyle center and retreat called Gota Camp in the San Diego area where they help people heal using the laws of health. As Gospel Medical missionaries- their focus is on achieving optimal gut-brain connections with the sole purpose of discerning truth from error.