David and his wife Andrea have lived in Palm Springs, CA since 1997. In 2016 they started a new ministry in downtown Palm Springs called LIVE 180 designed to provide a safe place for those in the Recovery and LGBT community to explore their relationship with Christ. Until 2016, they were both on staff at Our Savior’s Palm Springs, where he was the Associate Pastor and she was the Director of Prayer Ministries. They met and married while attending Concordia University in Irvine, CA, where he completed his BA in Elementary Education. He served at Resurrection Lutheran Church in Seattle, WA, (Andrea’s hometown) as their live-in Christian Halfway House Director, and Director of Children’s and Outreach Ministries from 1985-95. While there, they adopted their son who was nine-years-old. The family then moved to Pasadena, CA, (David’s hometown) to finish his Masters of Divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary. David served on the first EGM board and has traveled with the ministry to Poland, Hungary, and Chile. His greatest joy in ministry has been teaching children and youth each Sunday for the last 30 years.