David Servant, Founder

David received a compelling call to vocational ministry during his freshman year at Penn State University. One year later he enrolled in Bible School. Upon graduation in 1979, he and his new bride, Becky, pioneered their first church in David’s hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Over the next twenty years, David and Becky pioneered and pastored three missions-oriented churches. During that time, David often traveled on short-term mission trips, during which time he developed many ministry friends and associates in scores of developing nations.

When David was serving at his third pastorate, Jesus’ words in Matthew 25:31-46—the foretelling of the future judgment of the sheep and the goats—gripped his heart, birthing a new direction in ministry to serve “the least of these” (Matt. 25: 4). Heaven’s Family was the result, launched in 2002. In the years that followed, Heaven’s Family engaged in gospel-centered relief and development projects in 80 countries through the financial investments of believers in almost all 50 U.S. states and more than 40 nations of the world, largely due to the reach of David’s teaching ministry.

David is the author of twelve books, including Forever Rich and The Disciple-Making Minister, a 500-page equipping manual that has been translated into more than 30 languages and has been distributed to tens of thousands of international pastors. His books also include Family-Style Devotions, God’s Tests, Why Be Plain? A Biblical Response, and HeavenWord Daily. All of his books are available at DavidServant.org, which also includes hundreds of Bible-based teaching articles on numerous topics. David’s teaching is also available through 1,600 videos posted on his YouTube channel, Little Lessons.

The hallmark of David’s ministry has been the conviction that genuine faith in Jesus is manifested by obedience to His commandments. That conviction provides the foundation for Heaven’s Family’s focus on self-sustaining community development coupled with church planting through disciple-multiplication.

David and Becky have three grown and married children and fourteen grandchildren, five of whom are genetically part Asian, African, or Latin American. They live in rural Pennsylvania in a remodeled 1890 barn that also serves as a weekly workplace gathering spot for Heaven’s Family’s Pennsylvania staff as well as small retreat center that hosts strategic events and guests.