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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 Executive Ministries and 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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