Serving where God leads
Teaching Something Good
Dave & Shannon met in college in Tahlequah, Oklahoma in the early 1990s & the Lord moved us to commit deeply to Him & each other in marriage in 1997. Since then, the Lord has steadily & faithfully built us in stages in His Philippians 1:6 way.
We spent the first 15 years of our married lives in Northeastern Oklahoma, in & around Tulsa, as public school teachers. Dave taught middle & high school English while Shannon earned her master’s degree in Reading & helped elementary students who were struggling in that area to read well. After all, the best reason to learn to read well is so the Bible can have a great impact. That’s our heart, now & forever--that our Savior would use us to spread His Word wherever we go & that it would be glorified, just as Paul described to the Thessalonian Christians (2 Thessalonians 3:1).
In 2012, our friend & former Tulsa pastor, Dr. John Barnett asked Dave to come serve as his Executive Pastor at Calvary Bible Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan, & we said YES! Those were wonderfully sweet & challenging years during which the saints of Calvary became our family & forever friends! In 2017, Dr. Barnett launched into overseas missions, training pastors & missionaries all over the world through his ministry at DiscoverTheBook.org & the Lord began stirring in us something we didn’t recognize at the time. With the help & guidance of dear friends in Kalamazoo, we were introduced to Village Missions.
Our time with Village Missions, from our very first contact on March 4, 2019, has been like driving a highway with beautiful scenery & all green lights--constant affirmations from the Lord every step of the way. We now serve as a missionary family, based in Middleton, New Hampshire. We continue to serve Him here thankfully & by grace exceedingly, abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to His power that works in, around, & through us--to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever & ever (Ephesians 3:20-21).
