Downers Grove Fall Fest

About

Marketplace vendors

Food Vendors

Car Shows

Inflatables

Face Painting

Petting Zoo

Comedy Show

  • Mike Striker - headliners
  • Ray Fischer
  • Denise Medina

Date

Event Starts:
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Event Ends:
Sunday, September 21, 2025

Date

Event Starts:
Sunday, September 21, 2025
12:00 pm
Event Ends:
Sunday, September 21, 2025
4:00 pm

Location

5524 Lee Ave.
Downers Grove, IL 60515

About Our Speaker

In August of 2021, Pastor Newton took on the role of president of the Pacific Union Conference, which requires leadership of all church activities in a vast and diverse five-state region. Newton’s long history in church leadership in the Pacific Union makes him particularly suited to this role.

For more than 25 years, he has served in various capacities in the union: pastor in the Southern California Conference, president for the Nevada-Utah Conference, associate director of public affairs and religious liberty for the Pacific Union, and most recently as executive secretary and ministerial director for the Pacific Union—a role he held for 13 years.

While he is a native Californian, having grown up in Arcadia, Newton attended college and graduate school at Andrews University in Michigan, earning bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in theology and ministry. He spent the first decade of his service as a pastor and conference leader in Illinois.

Newton sees the role of the Seventh-day Adventist Church as being potentially transformational during what he calls a “monumental time in Earth’s history.” “The way the Lord has led us in the past, and the promise of the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit, gives us confidence for the important work that lies before us.”

He is married to Jennifer (née Christian), a certified faith-based meeting planner and consultant; they have two adult children and two granddaughters.

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