Before his appointment as Vicar of Upper Wensleydale, Rev Dave spent 33 years working as a Secondary School teacher and University Lecturer in West Yorkshire, specialising in Music, Drama and the Performing Arts.
Dave met his wife Sarah at Bretton Hall College, married in 1983, and then set up home in Normanton, West Yorkshire, where they became members of the congregation, worship and lay leadership team at ‘All Saints’ Parish Church which found itself at the heart of the Charismatic Renewal movement.
After having been recommended for training by the Bishop’s panel, Dave began his studies part time with the Yorkshire Ministry Course, based in Mirfield.
His curacy was served with Rev Felicity Lawson at St Peter’s church Gildersome and St Paul’s church Drighlington, before arriving in Upper Wensleydale in 2016 with a calling to extend the blessing of God’s Holy Spirit into a deep rural context.
With a lifelong passion for the Dales and sharing the joy of knowing Jesus Christ, Dave describes his posting as ‘great blessing and a great privilege’ and one in which we are ‘seeing the Lord work wonderfully amongst us, with us and through us.’