NEWS - David Ravenhill

David Ravenhill's burden is to see the Church come to maturity through intimacy with God.

Ravenhill was born in England in 1942. In 1964, he graduated from Bethany Fellowship Bible College in Minneapolis where he met and married his wife, Nancy. In their early years, David and Nancy served with David Wilkerson's first Teen Challenge Center in New York City. Following that, they worked with YWAM (Youth With A Mission) for six years which included two years in Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea.

From 1973 to 1988, David was on the pastoral team of one of New Zealand's largest churches, the New Life Center in Christchurch. David and Nancy returned to the States in 1988. The following year they joined the leadership team of Kansas City Fellowship under the leadership of Mike Bickle.

From 1993 David served as the senior pastor of a thriving church in Gig Harbor, Washington. He resigned in 1997 to commence a full time itinerant ministry throughout the United States and overseas. Before relocating to their present home in Lindale, Texas, David and his wife lived for eighteen months in Pensacola, Florida where David taught at the Brownsville Revival School of Ministry as well as maintaining a busy traveling schedule. During and following his time in Pensacola, David traveled with Evangelist Steve Hill and the Awake America Crusade.

David and Nancy have three grown daughters. The oldest, Lisa, is currently living and working in China. Their second daughter, Tina, is married. She and her husband, George, have four children and currently live in New Zealand. The youngest daughter, Debra, is also married. She and her husband, Jarrod, live and work in London, England.

David has written two books: "For God's Sake, Grow Up" and "They Drank from the River, and Died in the Wilderness". Both were published by Destiny Image Publishers.