Dave Harvey has been in pastoral ministry in Covenant Fellowship Church since 1986, was ordained in 1988, and has served the church as senior pastor since 1990. He has served as a member of the Sovereign Grace Ministries leadership team since 1995. Dave is responsible for missiology and church-planting development within Sovereign Grace, and serves Sovereign Grace churches in the northeastern United States and the U.K. He also supplies leadership for our international involvement in Europe, Africa, and parts of Asia.

Dave received a Master of Arts in Missiology from Westminster Theological Seminary in 1989, worked toward a Master of Divinity from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1993-1995, and in 2001, became a graduate in Westminster’s D.Min. program. The subject of his doctoral thesis was the identification and equipping of church planters.

Dave is the author of When Sinners Say “I Do”: Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage (published by Shepherd Press in 2007). He has also written three booklets in the Sovereign Grace Perspectives series: “Missiology: Entering the Field of the Lord”; “Am I Called? Discerning the Summons to Ministry”; and “Polity: Serving and Leading the Local Church.” He also wrote a chapter for Why Small Groups?, a book from Sovereign Grace’s Pursuit of Godliness series.

Dave lives in West Chester, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Kimm, their four children, and despite his many protests, one stray cat.