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About us...
David
and his wife Jenny grew up in Melbourne, Australia. He spent
his youth on a surfboard catching the next wave. After
college, David started his working life
as the Director of Parks and
 Recreation
for the City of Essendon, a suburban area of Melbourne. God
called both David and Jenny into full time ministry in their
early years of marriage. And in obedience, they left their
suburban life as they knew it and moved to an Aboriginal
community in the desert area of Western Australia where they
spent the next four years reaching out to Aboriginal families
and caring for neglected and abandoned Aboriginal children.
David and Jenny
moved back to Melbourne after their time in Western Australia and
David spent six years as a pastor and youth counselor at a local
church becoming the founding chairperson of a youth accommodation
and counseling program. It was through his work with homeless
young people and conducting youth outreach programs in local
secondary schools that David came in contact with Youth for
Christ. He worked with YFC for a number of years in a volunteer
capacity and eventually joined Youth for Christ full-time and for
the past 19 years has served in the roles of Executive Director of
YFC Melbourne (1990-1993), National Director of YFC Australia
(1994-2000), Area Director for YFC Asia Pacific (2000-2004) and in
his current role as International President of Youth for Christ.
The international
office is in Denver, Colorado which was a big move for David and
Jenny, leaving their two older daughters back in Australia. They
and their son Michael journeyed across the globe to the Mile High
City, where both David and Jenny serve in the Youth for Christ
Ministry. They love having their family and friends from Australia
visit them in Colorado - and their granddaughter especially loves
the snow!
David’s recently released book The Next Wave describes how
God is raising up a generation of globally connected young people
who—through the empowerment and support of the Church—have the
potential to usher in the greatest mission movement this world has
ever experienced.
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