Siegfried Johnson

After earning his Master of Divinity with a focus on Hebrew language and literature from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Memphis (1984), where he was awarded the American Bible Society Award for Excellence in Biblical Language Study, Siegfried Johnson went on to earn a Master of Arts in Hebrew Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1990), where he was a research assistant for General Editor David Noel Freedman’s six volume Anchor Bible Dictionary (Doubleday, 1992).

Leaving Ann Arbor in 1994 to re-enter ministry in the Arkansas Conference of the United Methodist Church, Rev. Johnson has spent the last twenty-seven years in pastoral ministry, currently serving as Senior Pastor at Christ of the Hills United Methodist Church in beautiful Hot Springs Village, Arkansas. Over the last three decades he has continued to nurture his love for Hebrew studies by leading and lecturing on over thirty tours to the Holy Land, Europe, and the Mediterranean world, since 2010 serving as Arkansas Director of Travel Ministries for Educational Opportunities Tours, a faith-based travel company based in Lakeland, Florida.