David Benson

Pas­tor Evan­gel­ism and Com­munity Outreach

David Ben­son — Evan­gel­ism

Dave Ben­son has been work­ing for KBC as Pas­tor of Evan­gel­ism and Com­munity Out­reach since Feb­ru­ary 2009. Hav­ing pre­vi­ously worked for KBC (2002−2006) as a youth pas­tor, this new role is an excit­ing chal­lenge. His pos­i­tion is about equip­ping, empower­ing, and align­ing each mem­ber and min­istry at KBC to more effect­ively live and share their faith in Jesus, so that those out­side KBC may get a taste of the King­dom of God. It’s a broad role, espe­cially with half his time ded­ic­ated to work­ing out­side the church – speak­ing engage­ments, train­ing, and the like!

A key part of his role, also, is head­ing up Logos – KBC’s apo­lo­get­ics min­istry – which looks at how bet­ter to explain the Chris­tian faith to a cul­ture that is often post-​​Christian in atti­tude (“we’ve been there, done that”), but pre-​​Christian in under­stand­ing (“who’s this Adam guy, any­way, and is Christ Jesus’ sur­name or some­thing?”). In terms of Dave’s per­sonal life, he has been mar­ried to Nikki for a dec­ade (bump­ing up the national stats!) – she is an Occu­pa­tional Ther­ap­ist and has the kind­est way espe­cially with older folks who have been through life-​​changing events like a stroke. They enjoy run­ning and hik­ing together, keep­ing act­ive in gen­eral, and trav­el­ling the world whenever time and budget allows! Dave also enjoys pho­to­graphy, and motor­cyc­ling, but not at the same time!