David Dixon
Teacher, Director, and Father in Fort Pierce, Florida
Father of a flower child-Sara, a creative mind-Miah, a chic feminist-Nevaeh and a jumping funny quick thinker-Jonah. I am best friend to Alex, a father to my four and a giver of care to three more, a g-pa to Alaina, Hartleigh, and Aria. I’m raising chickens and a golden doodle together with Alex on a small farmstead. I am a lover of life and people, a progressive Christian, a mentor, theologian, biblical scholar. I am an occasional writer, pop culture junkie, a board gamer and anything geek chic. This is my life and my calling as a leader. I am particularly interested in youth work, religious experience, social progress, and relational theory. I am a graduate of Candler School of Theology, Emory University with an MDiv in Theology and Ethics. In my four years at Emory I attended classes in Greek and Latin; read and practiced the latest in counseling methods; taken multiple courses in public speaking, rhetoric and public relations; learned to analyze systems and communities; studied conflict management; investigated a variety of budgets large and small; developed fundraising skills; gained a boatload of critical thinking skills; and learned to be more self-aware. I was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida but I have several hometowns. I am an avid outdoors person. I‘m a fan of music, books, coffee, the ocean (particularly the Atlantic), SciFi, Tolkien, Barth, N. Berdyaev, cheese, cooking, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, and Stranger Things. Love my kids laughter, good poetry, wine, the smell of pumpkin spice coffee, funny YouTubes, snow skiing, board games, time hiking in the woods, kayaking and having fun with people. Otherwise I live a relatively normal busy life: but it is good, true, and beautiful. As Ralph Waldo Emerson so succinctly said, “At some point everyone realizes that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that like it or not, we are who we are; that despite the infinite abundance in the universe, nothing good can come to us except by working that little plot of land that we are given to farm.”