Church Leadership

Dan has been going to church all of his life! His mom would bundle him up as a baby and ride the trolley to attend church at 26th and Spruce in Kansas City. As a young teen he realized that he needed to make his folk’s faith his own, and so he gave his life to Christ by putting Him on in baptism. He married Gaylene on April Fool’s Day in 1967. They lived in the Kansas City, MO area and raised a daughter and son and have 4 grandsons. They served the Lord in a variety of ways including teaching classes, teen retreats, marriage retreats and Dan speaking/teaching at various congregations in MO, KS, IA, IL, IN, PA, MN, CO, AZ, CA, OR, and WA. Dan served as a deacon at his home congregation in KC during this time. They both retired from teaching in 2004 and moved to Kirksville in 2005 to serve as a campus minister with the Ekklesia Campus Ministry sponsored by the Kirksville Church of Christ. They agreed to stay for a year but quickly fell in love with Kirksville and decided to stay and have never looked back. Dan was appointed an evangelist in August 2005 and worked with several small congregations in the area. In 2006, Dan’s focus changed, as he was appointed an elder/pastor of the Church of Christ meeting at 110 Pfeiffer.