sentences:  Following work as a pastor and evangelist in southern California and marriage to Marcia Janice Specht in 1954, he enrolled at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, then in Washington, D.C., receiving an MA in theology in 1955.He served as assistant editor of "The Youth's Instructor" (later "Insight") for three years.He became a member of the La Sierra faculty in 1961, the same year in which he took a BD from the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary (by then located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, and becoming part of what is now Andrews University).