April 28, 2006
Rev. David Nelson Clark, 89, whose ministry took him around the world and who was a district superintendent for The Christian and Missionary Alliance for 21 years, died Friday, April 20, in Toledo, Ohio. His funeral was held Wednesday, April 26, at the First Alliance Church in Toledo. Rev. Jeff Brown, district superintendent for the Great Lakes District, officiated at the service.
Clark graduated from the former Missionary Training Institute in Nyack, New York, and was ordained in the C&MA in 1941. Besides his service as a district superintendent and as an Army chaplain, he and his wife, the late Ruth Clark, served numerous pastorates in the United States and ministered at the International Church in Kinshasa, capital of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. They also ministered on short-term mission trips to several countries in Africa and in Denmark. He was currently serving as pastor emeritus at the First Alliance Church.