Richard Duerksen is a respected pastor, administrator, speaker, and author who is known around the world as an “Itinerant Pollinator of Grace.” Currently serving as a Storyteller for the Oregon Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, he also writes a monthly column for Adventist World Magazine and for the North Pacific Union Conference Gleaner.
Richard is also a professional photographer whose photographs of peaceful faces and places hang in hospital hallways, patient rooms, emergency rooms, medical offices, banks, and personal collections. Each of his photos tells a story and draws the viewer into the image to learn that story and its meaning in their own life.