As a cradle Catholic and youngest of three brothers, Dave grew up in a very close-knit and spiritually rich family. He followed in the footsteps of his brothers and attended Texas A&M University in College Station, TX, graduating in May 2001. Playing Christian music first entered his life when he joined the 11:00 a.m. Mass choir at St.Mary's in College Station as a freshman. They played praise songs during the Mass and received a lot of positive feedback. Dave and a couple of guys from the choir were encouraged to record some of these praise songs, and so in January of 1999 Dave recorded his first project. The album was named, "Eleven O' Clock", after the 11:00 a.m. choir where the band had met. The recording was well received in many areas of the U.S. and has even found it's way to a couple other countries. The band was dissolved a while later and Dave began writing and leading worship on his own.
After being invited by one of his very ecumenical Catholic friends to a weekly interdenominational praise and worship meeting in the Memorial Student Center (MSC) on the Texas A&M campus, Dave played regularly with non-Catholics (some of them fallen away Catholics). "I saw this meeting as an opportunity to bridge the gaps between us by talking about differences in our beliefs, as the Holy Father John Paul II calls us to do, as well as grow in my own faith." He commented. It ended up that meeting those guys was one of the best things to happen to his faith. He searched for answers through studying the Scriptures, Apologetics and History of the Church. Dave's song writing really began to take a deeper and more poetic form and his love for Jesus and the Church grew. "I knew that Christ was calling me to use my gifts in ministry and expand the Kingdom of Heaven." In the Spring of 2001, Dave recorded his most recent project, "Delivered", and after mixing and mastering in a studio in Atlanta, GA the album was released to the general public a year later in the Student Center of St.Mary's in College Station. "Our Lady has been a powerful intercessor in my life and my music and I will continue to pray that the graces of her Son, that flow through her, will saturate my ministry.
My calling to minister through music becomes more clear everyday, and after teaching Theology to high school students for a year and now through youth ministry, I feel that my gifts are geared toward the youth and young adults. No occupation or ministry in which I've ever been involved gives me the joy and peace that I find in leading others in worship of Jesus. I can identify with St.Augustine, who must have had a faith like mine, because his truthful words resonate in my heart...'Our hearts are restless, until they rest in you, Oh Lord!'"
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