David has lived in rural and urban settings, worked as a machinist, in bank management, as a labourer, a professional and in security. He ran his own consulting business, also offering seminars in conflict management, marriage preparation and dreams. He has worked as a contract Crisis Counsellor in an elementary school and took referrals from Children’s Aid.

He has experience as clergy (Baptist, United, Anglican, Presbyterian). His radical view that God meets people directly and not through priests or religion has elicited strong opposition from religious institutions, leading to early retirement on August 1, 2013. He is now fully retired from paid work.

Likewise a sense of social justice has led to confrontations with government, including a defense of Ojibway treaty rights beginning in 1990.

English: Map of the Mackenzie River, second gr...

Map of the Mackenzie River, second greatest river in North America, that drains to the Arctic Ocean (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

David earned three university degrees in psychology, history and seminary (Bible and Biblical languages specialty). His training in counselling includes Pastoral Counselling under CPE, mediation and conflict management from Conciliation Services (a Mennonite-based business) and extensive training with NLP Canada in Neuro-Linguistic Programming/New Code.

The  local newspaper published his bi-weekly column “Spiritually Speaking” for nearly ten years.

David canoed the Mackenzie River in Canada’s Arctic as a teenager.

Married to Margaret, they are proud of their close-knit family of three adult daughters, two sons-in-law, seven grandchildren, one great-grandchild, as well as an “adopted” daughter (and her husband and their children/grandchildren).