David Best
David Best is
a recording artist, inspirational speaker
and award-winning author
who has encouraged thousands of people in over 24 countries to discover their
true worth and potential as persons made in the image of God.
As cofounder/President of Towel & Basin--an international resourcing group helping individuals and
organizations develop their God-given visions--David challenges leaders to
combine "success with significance through service," and bring
servant hearts and hands to human hurts.
Before assuming this position in
March, 1994, David Best served nearly seven years as Pastor/Director of The
Lamb's Manhattan Church of the Nazarene and The Lamb's Center in
New York City.
Prior to this, he was the director of Compassionate Ministries for the Los
Angeles District Church of the Nazarene.
Towel & Basin provides
consulting, motivational and training resources to equip persons to be lifelong
servants of God's justice and peace in their communities and the world. In
1994-95, this involved David spending many months in the former Soviet Union
training national leadership for churches and helping develop humanitarian
organizations in the republic of Ukraine.
For over three decades David Best
has been actively involved with cross-cultural and urban missions. He has
initiated or helped plant new churches, train indigenous leaders and coordinate
humanitarian relief projects which have provided well over $10.5 million in
assistance to Mexico, Nicaragua, India, the Crimea, The Balkans the Middle East
and numerous cities of the United States.
David is an ordained minister in the
Church of the Nazarene. He has pastored churches in California, New York City, and
Kiev, Ukraine, and held assignments with the General Church as a program
director, editor, missionary, and consultant for urban ministries.
He coordinates the Center
for Urban Strategy Development, a
division of Towel & Basin located in New York City. As a training and
resourcing center, CUSD offers seminars and consultations for urban pastors and
lay workers.
David is an award-winning author. He
has written a feature column and been a regular contributor for magazines. His
books include The Urban Imperative and the highly acclaimed Successfully Serving the City and editor of several others. He also edited an
award-winning national magazine for college students. David helped create
and was host of CompassionNOW!, a satellite television program beamed to
over 3 million people.
A songwriter and singer, David is a
founding member of Mountain Glory, a pioneer group in contemporary Christian music that has
now performed for over 40 years. Today, David is working on new music projects
and has reestablished a family music publishing company.
His speaking and singing have taken
David to colleges, retreats, churches, leadership development seminars, urban and
mission conferences. He has consulted with urban ministries, international
mission agencies, other not-for-profit, and for-profit enterprises.
He holds the B.A. in history and
M.A. in religion with an emphasis on theology and ethics.
David is married to Marilyn (nee)
Johnston who is a social worker (LMSW) specializing with the elderly. They live
in New York City’s historic Harlem neighborhood. David can be reached through ihttps://DavidBestOnline.com
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