Daniel and Natalie live with their three children in Burnsville, where they love hosting people, cooking food, and discussing (among other things) Packers football, the doctrine of the church, and the best recipes for legitimately great smoked meat on their humble Weber.

Daniel was born in northern Michigan into a military family, and spent several years moving around the country before settling in Cincinnati at the age of six. He grew up in the Roman Catholic church, although later in his childhood years he attended an Episcopalian church. Early in his preteen years, God saved his mother. At this time, his father, who had made a profession of faith when he was younger, began to live more in accord with that profession. Together, they realized that their children were apart from Christ, and they began to faithfully evangelize them. In the midst of these years, his family was going through very difficult circumstances, and (unbeknownst to Daniel) God was using it to draw Daniel to himself. At age 15, God opened his eyes to the glories of Christ through the faithful witness of his parents and the preaching ministry of an Australian youth pastor at a Christian music festival. About 10 months later, his family started attending an independent Baptist church. He had heard the word of God preached at the Episcopalian church that he was a part of, but not in this fashion where the word was preached every week. Through this ministry, he grew in his new-found faith and began serving in several capacities. He also met Natalie (14 at the time), who would later become his wife.

While continuing to serve in that local church in Cincinnati in the early 2000s, he felt the keen desire and call to vocational ministry. This desire was confirmed by others in that church and in other ministries he was involved in; eventually leading him to pursue theological education at Northland International University in northern Wisconsin. Between his junior and senior years of college, he and Natalie were married. After nearly staying in Wisconsin to lead a church they helped plant, they ended up moving back to Cincinnati and served at the church where they had met.

In the summer of 2010, they moved to Minneapolis––for Daniel to pursue a graduate degree at Bethlehem College & Seminary. Daniel had the privilege to work under Kempton Turner with youth and their families at the Downtown Campus until the summer of 2014, when Natalie and he moved to Bethlehem’s South Campus to serve youth and their families there. In 2021, he began a new role at the South Campus, serving as Pastor for Membership & Mobilization, a role that continues today at South Cities Church.