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Cycling Pastor
Kenn L. Dixon loves to cycle. He recently finished his sixth cycling tour he personally organized. This tour was over 400 miles from San Antonio to Arlington, in six days. He started these cycling tours in 2015 with a group riding from Dallas to San Antonio, Texas, where the 60th General Conference Session of Seventh-day Adventists was being held. Since then, he has ridden thousands of miles to promote health and raise funds for Adventist Education. “Many think that since I am so passionate about these cycling tours and
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raising funds for Adventist Education that I had a wonderful school experience,” Dixon shared. “Actually, it is quite the opposite.” Having attended several Seventh-day Adventist schools, he was surprised one month into his junior year when he was sent home to think about his actions. “I view it as a disagreement with administration,” Dixon shares about the situation. A school official called his mom shortly afterward asking if he was coming back, but she had already enrolled him in the local public
school. His senior year, he changed to Bass Memorial Academy in Lumberton, Mississippi. That year made quite an impression on him, especially his English teacher, Miss Webb. “She was an amazing teacher,” Dixon remembers, “She was battling cancer but was still willing to pour into us. I was a leader and had my own opinions, always speaking up about something, but she was willing to work with me.” Dixon enrolled at Oakwood University but was not able to finish his degree