David Timothy Clark (Tim Clark) is an American pastor and author. Formerly dean of students at

Life Pacific College Life Pacific University (LPU) is a private Christian Bible college endorsed by the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel and located in San Dimas, California. LPU serves as the denomination's flagship institution for higher education. Th ...

, he is now senior pastor of

The Church On The Way The Church On The Way (The First Foursquare Church of Van Nuys) is a Foursquare church in Van Nuys, California, led by Senior Pastor, Tim Clark. It is one of a handful of flagship churches in the Foursquare denomination. The church was formerly p ...

in Van Nuys, California. In 2015, he published a

devotional book Christian devotional literature (also called devotionals or Christian living literature) is religious writing that Christian individuals read for their personal growth and spiritual formation. Such literature often takes the form of Christian daily ...

on the

Book of Acts The Acts of the Apostles ( grc-koi, Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων, ''Práxeis Apostólōn''; la, Actūs Apostolōrum) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of its message ...

called VIRAL.

Biography

Born in 1968, Tim Clark was raised attending Florence Avenue Foursquare Church in Santa Fe Springs, California. After high school, he felt called to youth ministry while working at

. He later helped plant a church in

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, received his bachelor's degree at Fresno Pacific University, planted a church in Seattle, and pastored Newberg Foursquare Church in

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. In 2007, Life Pacific College invited Clark to come on as dean of students, where he also served as adjunct professor and helped organize Lifehouse Foursquare Church in San Dimas, California. He received his master's degree from

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in 2010, and the following year he joined the Foursquare Church headquarters as Supervisor of the Greater Los Angeles District of Foursquare Churches. In 2013, the

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appointed Clark as the senior pastor of The Church On The Way. In 2015, he was invited to be a guest speaker at Converge 2015. He also published VIRAL, a 29-day devotional on the Book of Acts, to be made generally available in 2016.

Personal life

Clark and his wife, Deborah, live with their three children in Los Angeles, California.

Books

* ''VIRAL'' (2015)

References

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