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Born in Jamaica into a
politically prominent family, Dave graduated from high school
as valedictorian, and was educated as a lawyer in England. He
married his high school sweetheart, Pauline, after his
freshman year of university. After returning to Jamaica he
became a partner of the oldest law-firm in Jamaica when he was
only 28 years old. God used the emptiness of success at an
early age to prepare both Dave and Pauline for the gospel. As
Dave used his legal training to examine the evidence of the
resurrection of Jesus Christ and the fulfillment of ancient
Hebrew prophecy, he was convinced of the inerrancy of
Scripture and the deity of Christ at the same time. Both he
and Pauline accepted the Lord in 1972 together with their
young children. This was very unusual because very few
professionals, executives or leaders in Jamaica know Christ
personally, and there still are few Bible-believing churches
geared towards ministering to professionals and
leaders.
Dave was given the gift of personal evangelism
and within 18 months of their conversion, with the help of
three other young businessmen, more than 200 new converts from
the professional and business sector of Kingston were involved
in over 20 home and office Bible studies. They formed a group
of twelve men called Doulos Associates, and began to bring
overseas speakers into Jamaica for outreach events including
an outreach dinner at their home attended by over 500 people.
Doulos (which means "bond-servant" in Greek) also ran a tape
and book lending library to give support to this incredible
movement of the Holy Spirit. World Team Missions discipled us
and give us leadership training. By 1976, Dave felt he needed
more theological training and moved the whole family to Europe
where he studied under Dr. Francis Schaeffer and Dr. J. I..
Packer. It was at this time that Dave and Pauline received
their call to full-time ministry.
We followed the
vision that God had given us and moved to the USA in 1979 to
follow the steps of the Apostle Paul by starting a church
which was multiracial and international like the Church at
Antioch (Acts 11) and which would spawn evangelism and
missions around the world. Accordingly after the International
Community Church joined with Immanuel Presbyterian Church in
Miami, to become one of the first truly multi-racial churches
in the PCA in Miami, we moved on to do the work of evangelism
and missions. We have been with
Campus Crusade for Christ International since 1988 ministering
primarily to young professionals and business men and women in
Miami, other parts of the USA, the Caribbean, Europe and
worldwide.
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