David is a home-grown product of the English-speaking congregation for EFCLA. He has been attending and serving HarvestLA since 1979, when he came from Brazil. He has served as a pastor for HarvestLA since 2000. Before that, David served as the pastor for the English congregation of EFC-DC, from April 1996 to August 2000. He “cut his teeth” in ministry by starting as a junior high fellowship advisor for HarvestLA beginning in 1983. David’s passion is to bring the generations together in an immigrant church, serving as a bridge between generations, languages, and cultures.
He is married to a beautiful wife, Andrea, and together they have two awesome kids, Isabella (8) and Matthew (6). He grew up in Brazil from ages 1 to 15 1/2, when his family immigrated to the U.S. Although David can speak several languages, he cannot speak any of them without an accent. If you want to learn Portuguese or Spanish, he is your man. Being born in Taiwan, raised in Brazil and educated in the US, if David looks “confused” to you, it is because he IS confused. He loves to watch sports (mostly soccer, basketball and football), and he goes nuts during the World Cup, especially when Brazil is playing.