David R. Grant

David R Grant BA, BD, ThM, was born in Rotorua in 1940 and moved with his family to a dairy farm on the Glen Eden River at Matakana in 1942.

After attending Matakana School and Warkworth District High School he began a building apprenticeship with local building firm Roke and Smith. The family moved to South Auckland in 1958 and David completed his apprenticeship in Papatoetoe.

In 1964 he began his training as a Presbyterian minister in Dunedin and Princeton, New Jersey, graduating in 1972. After living in Auckland, the United States, Feilding, Palmerston North, Hamilton and Dunedin he retired back to the Mahurangi in 2003, after 30 years of ministry.

David has three adult children and lives with his wife, Alison