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God placed everything you need inside you the instant you were born again. The rest of the Christian life is simply learning what you have and how to release it!

Dave Duell grew up on a farm in Kersey, Colorado. The youngest of thirteen children, Dave learned many of life’s valuable lessons through hard work and love. His strict father taught him discipline and his gentle mother taught him love. Dave says, “The training I received growing up on a large farm let me see how God operates through many practical experiences.” Two specific incidents influenced Dave in his early years to bring him to where he is today. One event happened when he was twelve years old. He spent a week at a Bible camp in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and heard the testimony of a missionary from the Congo of Africa. That week Dave accepted Jesus into his life and from then on had a heart for missions. The other event happened when he was fifteen years old. One day by a hay bale out in the field, Dave knelt down and asked God for the privilege of being wealthy enough to support five hundred missionaries. This prayer has stayed vivid in his mind and influenced his life to this very day. Later, when he graduated from high school, he chose to go to North Park Junior College in Chicago, Illinois, to put some distance between himself and the farm chores and to find a wife! God answered his prayers and he met and later married Bonnie McCartney from Chicago, Illinois. He brought her home to live on the ranch in Kersey, Colorado. God blessed them with three lovely daughters, Tamara, Juli, and Darla. Later they adopted a beautiful little Korean girl and named her Sarah. As Dave and Bonnie raised their girls, they taught them the love of Jesus and were very involved in their church. When Dave was thirty-one years old, his desire to know the Holy Spirit personally began to increase. One night he was invited to a Full Gospel Businessmen’s meeting in Denver. That night he asked for the Baptism in the Holy Spirit and the power of God actually came into his life. Their international ministry began in 1980, when Dave and Bonnie took a team from their church to Kenya, East Africa. It was the beginning of many trips and crusades around the world. After planting and pastoring the church in Greeley, they were called by God to start another Faith Ministries church in Denver. It’s called Faith Ministries Church International. Dave and Bonnie have traveled to seventy-three nations bringing healing, encouragement, and joy. Over and over they find themselves being spiritual parents to pastors and ministry leaders that they meet everywhere they go.