Instructor:  Rev. David Avery graduated from William Jewel College in 1970.  His final year of college was spent as a student at the University of Andhra, Andhra Pradesh, India.  He spent four years in the U.S. Navy as a radioman (three and a half years assigned to a communication station in Ponce, Puerto Rico.)  He received a second bachelor?s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1976 and worked ten years as a reporter and editor in various newspapers and magazines in Missouri and Iowa.  He received the call to ministry in 1986 and attended four years at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, IN.  While there, he served as pastor of First Christian Church, Eaton, IN.  Upon graduation he took a call to the Central Christian Church in Boone, IA.  He served there seven years.  In Boone, he also taught a basic course in philosophy (ethical problems) at Des Moines Area Community College (Boone Campus) for a couple of years.  In January 1998, He became pastor of Community Christian Church, Jefferson City, MO.  He and his wife, Suzan are the proud parents of three beautiful daughters, Sara, Kate and Laura.  They also have two grandsons, Kaden and Brecklan, and two granddaughters, Garnet and Linden.