Dr John Lillis

Speaker and Author

Dr. John R. Lillis currently serves as the Executive Officer and Dean of Bethel Seminary San Diego.  From 1990-2001, he served in various faculty and administrative positions at Cornerstone University.  Prior to 1990, Dr. Lillis lived and ministered for 8 years in Southeast Asia.  He has also been involved in church planting and pastoral ministries in both Asia and the United States.  Prior to his ministry experience, Lillis was a nuclear physicist with the United States Air Force and later a physics instructor at Calvin College. His educational background includes undergraduate and graduate degrees in physics, an M.R.E. and M.Div. from Grand Rapids Baptist Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Adult Education from Michigan State University.