David Evans (administrator)

Evans is the second of three children and was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania on February 16, 1960. His father, Ned Llewellyn Evans was born in the predominantly Welsh town of Taylor, Pa. He got a degree in electrical engineering, which led him into plastics manufacturing and being the co-owner and chief engineer of a plastics company based in Scranton. Evans' father sold his share of the business and retired from active employment in 1993. Evans’ mother is Marlene Harris Evans, born in Scranton, Pa. Marlene worked as an administrative assistant at Bell Telephone Company. After marriage and the birth of their first child, she became a full-time homemaker. Fifteen years later, she began working again as a bank teller and administrative assistant.

In May 2003, Evans organized and sponsored an international conference on Biblical Holism and Agriculture held at Dordt College in Sious Center, Iowa. The conference was framed around the topics of the Agriculturalist and God, Humanity, Creation, Knowledge, Purpose (including Vocation and Work) and Ethics.[5] A book was published from the conference presentations.

In 2003, Evans was senior editor of the book called Biblical Holism and Agriculture: Cultivating Our Roots, which was published by William Carey Library and addresses major issues concerning missions and agriculture, bringing relevance to the relationship of God, creation, and humanity in the context of ethics, agricultural science, economy, and globalization.[1]

In 2007, Evans testified before the US House of Representatives and the US Senate on the importance of the international food aid in the 2008 Farm Bill legislation.

In 2008, Evans presented a workshop to the United States Department of Agriculture outlining the feeding challenges that the world was and would continue to face.[8]

In February 2011, Evans made a presentation called "Responding to Climate Change: Helping the Developing World Poor Adapt" at a conference on climate change sponsored by the National Religious Partnership for the Environment and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. In his presentation, Evans said that the impact of climate change on the poor included hunger (40 to 170 million additional impoverished people could be at risk of hunger and malnutrition in the 21st century), thirst (1 to 2 billion already stressed people could see a further reduction in water availability), flooding (impacting an additional 100 million people in coastal regions) and disease.[9]

In May 2012, Evans spoke at the U.S. government's "International Food Aid and Development Conference," describing how food and development programs have transformed poor Bolivian farmers into successful business owners and improved the nutrition of thousands of children.[10]

In July 2012, Evans co-hosted, with Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church, a satellite event during the International AIDS Conference. The event brought together faith-based organizations to discuss the role of the faith community in the fight against HIV and AIDS.[3]

Evans received his bachelor of arts degree in international studies from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. (IUP)[2] During his freshman year at IUP, he sensed a very strong call to spend his life working on behalf of the poor and hungry. While in college, Evans spent a semester in Haiti where he saw the incredible needs in the developing world. After his experience in Haiti, he decided to pursue a degree in international studies.

After graduation from IUP, he served for three years with the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in Burkina Faso and Chad, both of which are in French-speaking Africa. Following a few short-term assignments with a French NGO and the Peace Corps in Africa in the late 1980s, he entered Penn State University as a research assistant in the graduate school of agricultural economics. He received a master of science degree in agricultural economics from Penn State in 1991. He moved shortly after that to Chad, with his wife Susan, where he began to work with Food for the Hungry.

Evans met his wife Susan at Maranatha Christian Church in State College, Pa., in May 1989. They married in May 1990. Susan is a homemaker and currently works as a park naturalist. She has served in the past as a biology and science teacher at several private schools. They have two children, Kathryn Joy Evans, a university freshman and Bronwyn Dorothy Evans, a high school sophomore.

• Biblical Holism and Agriculture: Cultivating Our Roots (joint editor) published by William Carey Library, 2003, ISBN 978-0878083558

This book addresses major issues concerning missions and agriculture, bringing relevance to the relationship of God, creation, and humanity in the context of ethics, agricultural science, economy, and globalization.[11]

• Truth and Community Transformation: Foundational Principles for Distinctively Biblical Community Development[12] (contributing author) published by Food for the Hungry International, 2003 and 2004

This book provides foundational principles rooted in the Bible as well as practical recommendations for their use in the areas of agriculture, health, business, leadership, and family.

• The Least of These: Addressing a Changing Environment[13] (reviewer) published by the National Association of Evangelicals, 2011

This book addresses climate change and global warming and makes a clarion call for Christians to become more active in caring for creation and speaking out for change.

• Evans, D. J., Vos, R. J., Wright, K. P. (2003). Biblical holism and agriculture: Cultivating our roots. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.
• "Global Executive Office". Food for the Hungry. Retrieved 2 October 2012.

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