Robert S. Folkenberg

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Robert S. Folkenberg
Born	January 01, 1941 (age 65) Santurce, Puerto Rico
Occupation	President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Robert Stanley Folkenberg, born 1941 in Santurce, Puerto Rico, served as General Conference president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church from 1990 through to his resignation in 1999. He is now working to further outreach in Africa through the church's Global Mission program.

Folkenberg was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico on January 1, 1941 to North American missionaries serving in Latin America. Folkenberg's education up to Grade 4 took place in Puerto Rico, before attending schools in Cuba, entering high school in California and completing high school in Milo, Oregon in 1958. The next year, Folkenberg enrolled in Atlantic Union College where he remained for 2 years before a two year stint at Newbold College. In 1962, Folkenberg graduated from Andrews University and obtained his masters in New Testament theology from Andrews in 1963.

He championed the vision of a "Global Mission initiative" in the Adventist Church. An expected long tenure as president was cut short by his decision to resign amid allegations of financial impropriety in his personal life. His decision was not an admission of guilt but rather an expression of concern that the church not be marred by his cooperation in the investigation.^[1]

He continues to work for the church to-date.