David McDaniel

I grew up in Tokyo, Japan, living in the metropolitan city from the age of 7 with my family. We were Christian Missionaries with the organization Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and engaged in humanitarian and social ministries. I attended public Japanese school during my elementary years, gaining a level of fluency, then going on to attend Christian Academy in Japan for my middle and high school years. During that time I engaged in a number of opportunities in which I served the community and the communities we visited. In my senior year, my class and I took a trip to northern Thailand to lay the foundation of a school house for several of the Hill Tribes that lived there. Since graduating, I had the opportunity to spend two months in Athens, Greece, serving Afghan, Syrian, Irani, Iraqi and Pakistani refugees. I remained in Japan after my return to serve as a missionary myself, becoming one of the key members of our Visa team and community builders team. I have led a team on a missions outreach to the US from Japan, as well as having facilitated the success of a ministry school. I have since moved away from Japan to pursue higher education in preparation to serve in the US political sphere.