Dave and Ann Engel
FIELD
Dave gained church-planting experience with South Hills Community Church during seminary. Dave and Ann traveled to Zimbabwe, Africa, for Dave’s seminary internship and ministered at a mission comprised of a Bible college and a hospital. There they encountered holistic ministry as the Bible students witnessed to the hospital patients and led daily services in the outpatient waiting area.
Dave gained additional church-planting exposure as Pastor of Education and Equipping at Sun Valley Community Church in Gilbert, Arizona. He then joined the staff of The Christian Medical and Dental Association as South Central Regional Director, ministering to Christian doctors and leading short-term medical mission trips to Central America.
Dave and Ann have established a medical clinic and are planting a church in an under-served, multiethnic area of Chandler, Arizona. The Engels plan to use the clinic to open the door to the Gospel, then they will disciple new believers in the church.
FAITH
In 1988, looking over a busy street in China, Dave noticed the faces of the many who had never heard of Christ. God called him to reach the lost. Likewise, Ann attended the Urbana missions conference in 1987. She felt the call of God to go wherever and whenever God asked. Both Dave and Ann became believers as teenagers and grew in faith and leadership abilities through Campus Crusade for Christ.
FAMILY
Dave and Ann met while attending the same church and realizing their similar calling to missions. They were married in Denver, Colorado in 1993, then moved to Phoenix, Arizona, to complete Ann’s training.
EDUCATION
Dave: M.Div. in Missions
Ann: M.D.
