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Elder Van G. Hurst has accepted the invitation of the Executive Committee to serve as president of the Indiana Conference replacing Elder Gary Thurber who accepted a call to serve as president of the Rocky Mountain Conference. The current plan is for Elder Hurst to arrive in Indiana on a full-time basis around the first of October.

In 1976, he graduated from Southwestern Adventist College in Keene, Texas . Then, in 1984 he attended the seminary at Andrews University. He then served in Iowa, Oklahoma and Texas as a teacher, pastor, and in various departmental directorships along with being assistant to the president. He then went to the Dakota Conference where he served as president while pastoring a two-church district.

Elder Hurst has traveled abroad conducting evangelistic meetings, camp meetings and weeks of prayer. Most recently he has served in the Mid-America Union as Youth Director, Sabbath School Director, Evangelism Coordinator, Church Planting Coordinator and Church Ministries Director.

After growing up in Northwest Oklahoma he married Janell Kostenko of Shreveport, Louisiana. Their daughter, Kortnye, is attending Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska. Elder Hurst says, "We enjoy people and delight in bringing to them the knowledge of Jesus Christ and His redeeming love."