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Dan and Aurea Evans |
Dan was born and raised in the U.S., in
the state of Washington, the first of two sons of Robert and Shirley
Evans. Dan attended Simpson College in San Francisco, a Bible college
operated by the Christian and Missionary Alliance. Following
college, he worked for Bank of America for more than 33 years in
computer systems (designing database systems) and corporate communications
(as a speech and editorial writer). Dan has been involved
in lay ministry all of his adult life as a director and producer of Christian radio and television
programming, church sound and
lighting system design and engineering, as a musician, script writer,
and event producer. Dan
also managed or coached Christian musical groups, directed drama and
concert productions, provided business and technical counseling to a
number of ministries, and served on the board of
Phoenix Calvary Temple church in Phoenix, Arizona.
Aurea was born and raised in Wali, Maitum in the Philippines. She is
the daughter of Alfredo and Lillian Desaville. Aurea spent her youth
involved with church ministry in her village and was a youth leader.
She attended college to obtain her nurses training and then served
with the Salvation Army for several years with island ministry
teams. Aurea spent several years in South Korea as an English teacher in a Christian school. Aurea has
one daughter, Jennifer.
Dan and Aurea were married in the U.S. in September, 2005.Both Dan and Aurea feel that God has
blessed their lives immensely, separately and now together. They also
believe that God brought them together and appointed them to found and
operate the Datu Wali Mission. Their relocation to the Philippines is
permanent. They have pledged all of their financial and material
resources, their talent and abilities to this work and will
someday be buried in the Desaville family plot on the land they are
working.
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