Born and raised in Montgomery County, Texas, Dan was called to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ at age 20 and has served as pastor in independent churches for the past forty years. At age 48, he resigned his pastorate in Midland, TX where he had served for nine years to move to Point Roberts, WA to attend Regent College, a seminary in Vancouver, B.C. Canada where he earned a Master’s degree in 1997. In November of that year, he and his wife Grace Ellen returned to Conroe, TX to assume the pastorate of Christ Church on League Line Road, a church he had founded twenty years earlier. His focus in ministry is to help his congregation to live contemplatively, paying attention to God at work in their lives, and to live in response to Him.