David Asscherick is the co-founder and director of ARISE Institute. He is the former (from 2002 to 2007) pastor of the Troy Seventh-day Adventist Church

Seventh-day Adventist Church

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 in Troy

Troy, Michigan

Troy is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan, and is a suburb of Detroit. The population was 80,980 at the 2010 census, making it the 11th-largest city in Michigan by population, and the largest city in Oakland County...

, Michigan

Michigan

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. He has been featured on 3ABN

3ABN

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 and Hope Channel and has been a regular presenter at the annual Generation of Youth for Christ

Generation of Youth for Christ

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 conferences.

He is a former punk rocker, professional skateboarder and rock climber. Asscherick became a Christian

Christianity

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 at the age of 23. He later "converted to Adventism, became a pastor without completing college, [and] started the ARISE Institute"

External links

• Articles by Asscherick as catalogued in the Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index (SDAPI)