Rev. Dave

Ayden

North Carolina

United States

In addition to WayFollowers, I administrate eMarketTraffic.com, a traffic exchange from which the total earnings go to feed and educate the children of the Batwa people in Burundi, Africa. It would be an effective advertising resource for you, so I urge you to join - and you would be helping to save the lives of children and helping them to escape the bondage of poverty.

I am the Chancellor of the Missionary Disciples of Christ, Inc, which I founded. My avocation is Biblical theology, early church history, archaeology, and quantum physics.

There is a poem, published in England in 1890, written by Francis Thompson. It is entitled, "The Hound of Heaven" and it describes Thompson's flight from God who relentlessly pursues him like a hound on the hunt. Thompson's experience is much like mine. I ran from God for much of my life until He caught up with me, and I surrendered to Him.

My life was a mess before God grabbed me. I was a heavy drinker and I was an angry man. But all that changed once I surrendered.

At God's urging, I was moved to join the clergy, so I enrolled in a seminary and moved 1000 miles with my wife. We hadn't sold our house by the time we had to leave. So, we just walked away from the house without looking back. A total commitment to faith is scary. It means you have to let go with trust no matter what and with no guarantees.

We arrived at the seminary with $20 to our name. Nevertheless, before that $20 was gone, my wife got a call from her former employer who hired her as a consultant and sent her a computer so she could work from where we were.

Before God took hold of me, I looked in many places for answers. After He grabbed me, I discovered that all the answers are in the Bible. Once you learn to understand what God says in the Bible, you see and understand things you never did before.

I don't push any specific denomination or anything like that. I am comfortable in the ways of my Church, but others may be more comfortable in another.

Before I joined the clergy, I was a NYC cop for 20 years, a mental health program administrator, and finally a webmarketer.

Now, I do missionary work in Africa, helping feed and educate poverty-ridden children in Burundi. I am also working on establishing a shelter for the homeless in Tampa, Florida.

My office is in North Carolina, and I travel elsewhere as needed. I don't take any money from my church. I supported myself for 10 years from web marketing and now, I support my church's mission from it.