Lyn Behrens, MBBS, president emerita and John Burden (played by Randy Roberts, pastor of Loma Linda University Church). Speakers at the ceremony were Richard Hart, MD, DrPH, president of Loma Linda University Health Victor Issa, sculptor B. Members of the White and Burden families attended the sculpture unveiling. “Then this is the very place the Lord has shown me, for it is all familiar,” she answered. Upon arriving on the Beautiful Hill, Ellen White said, “Willie, I have been here before.” White traveled with her son Willie and was met by John Burden, who had made the property purchase. The sculpture by Victor Issa recalls the moment Ellen White visited Loma Linda on June 12, 1905, and knew it to be the location she had seen in a vision. On May 24, under the trees atop the Nichol Hall hill-the very mound from which Loma Linda takes its name meaning “Beautiful Hill”-a crowd gathered in anticipation of the moment when a new sculpture called “This is the Very Place” would be unveiled.
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