Dave

Dave was born and raised in Chicago. He left at 23 and moved to Arizona where he met his ex-wife, had a mortgage, and started a family. From there he moved to San Diego, where he spent the next 21 years. He worked for a man who owned a number of art galleries as a bookkeeper and executive assistant. However with his marriage ending, kids grown and living out of state, he returned to a dream he had when he was younger, to write and sell songs. Dave has over one hundred original songs, a third of which are praise and worship, the rest are songs about love and life.

He bought a van and moved to Nashville hoping to make some money but also check the pursuit of this dream off of his bucket list.

When he arrived in Nashville he picked up a series of jobs to avoid going back to work in an office environment. With no support and a higher cost of living than expected, he found his way to CCF. The community of people had a lasting impact on him. He realized the rarity and importance of finding Christian fellowship and when the job of bookkeeper became available it was one he jumped at.

“What’s going on here is real. You have such a spectrum of people, professional people that really just got knocked out of their place in society, and then you’ve got people who are truly mentally ill, and then people who beat up their brains with drugs and then people in between. I’ve only been here three months but I’ve already seen people able to get out of this situation and into a home. That’s pretty satisfying.”