Dave Robinson
pastor | teaching elder
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Family: I got a great one! (three kids, one wife and a son-in-law)
Influences: my wife, kids & family, mom & dad, friends; Club Confab-Budapest; Sam - Rick - Pat; Leaders & Mentors: Bud Hinkson, Bill Bright, Dave English, Greg Sarensen & Mike Uno; Evangelism to Communist Lands; U.S. Center for World Missions; Jim Elliott; Jim Mugg; Raymer Matson; many authors, missionaries, philosophers & theologians
Epic Moments: Sunset Sharks; The death of Mike, Kevin & Jon; THE EVENT on Feb. 22, 1974 (from Shady Oak Park to the MTKA Police Station to home); Mom & Dad's Grace & Wisdom; Granddad's regret; meeting Karen; Myrtle Beach Summer Project; the decision under the coat rack in the Olympic Village; Delta Tau Delta; the birth of each of my children; the year of darkness (1983); January 10, 1984; The Partnership Vision & WSN's start; ESE ‘86 -89 in Hungary & Eastern Europe; April 13, 1987 in Bangalore; 1988-89 "events"; KEGy; YTL; TJTS; Story of the Soul
Spare Time: date my wife, talk with my kids, read, travel, run, bike, softball
Books: Bible; Any Classic Hymnal; Morning and Evening (Spurgeon); The Spirit of Christ (Andrew Murray); Mere Christianity (C S Lewis); Man Looks at the Cosmos (Vincent Cronin); Notes from the Underground (Dostoevsky); A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (William Law); In the Shadow of the Almighty (Elizabeth Elliott); No Greater Love (Mother Teresa); Fearfully & Wonderfully Made (Paul Brand & Phillip Yancy); The Transferrable Concepts (Bill Bright); Tortured for Christ (Richard Wurmbrand); Prophetic Untimeliness (Os Guiness); These Strange Ashes (Elizabeth Elliott); The God who is There, Escape from Reason, He is There and is not Silent (Francis Schaeffer's Trilogy); Don't Waste your Life (John Piper)
Music: Old Hymns, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Yes, Tracy Chapman, The Moody Blues, The Dead, Jackson Browne, Creede Williams, Kings of Convenience, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Beethoven's 9th, Pálhegyi Dávid
Movies: Oh Brother Where Art Thou? Antoine Fisher, Awakenings, Steel Magnolias, Little Women, The Ideal Husband, About a Boy, Hook, The Natural, Field of Dreams, Cool Hand Luke, Sneakers
Food: Chicken Divan, Cashew Chicken Springfield Style, Guacamole, Fajitas
At Starbucks, I order a: bold, black coffee, tall w/ no room for anything else
Pet Peeves: Watching people eat corn on the cob
Motivation: Jesus, The Word of God, the Holy Spirit's desires, Karen's heart, Hungary-Eastern Europe-Russia, Cities, Missions, people seeking the truth
Personal Motto: Exalt, Evangelize, Encourage, Equip, Enlist
Your role at Covenant Chapel (in your own words): as pastor and teaching elder, I teach the Word, connect others to Jesus, prepare and empower leaders, mobilize for acts of faith and love, send to the world