Today we’d like to introduce you to Daniel Dagan.
Hi Daniel, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I graduated high school from Plant City High in 1990. I received a football scholarship to the University of Louisiana at Monroe. I graduated from ULM with a Bachelor’s Degree. While in college a fellow football player taught me about Acts 2:38 and many other Bible verses. I became a Christian and helped to start a Student Campus Ministry.
After graduation I went to work for the Louisiana Caterpillar Heavy Equipment Dealer. In December of 1995 I married the love of my life. DaVida and I will celebrate our thirtieth anniversary this year. We have been blessed with three sons.
Eight years into our marriage we felt that God was calling us to serve the people of Southwest Florida. After relocating to Florida, we had our first “service” in April of 2003. We started a new church in our living room.
God has blessed our efforts. I retired from Caterpillar eight years ago. I have been in full time ministry since that time. My wife has worked at a Florida Title 1 public elementary school for over twenty years. She has been a ESE teacher and is now a school social worker.
Since transitioning into full time ministry I have been blessed to serve as a weekly volunteer chaplain at the county jail. Our church was able to buy our first building twelve years ago. Then, six years ago, we sold that facility and God helped us to purchase a larger facility.
Since 2022, I have been honored to serve as the Florida District UPCI Reach Out America Disaster Director. In this capacity, after hurricanes and natural disasters I work with local churches to get supplies to those in need. The precious people we pastor at Hope Apostolic Church, have been immeasurably valuable in all these endeavors.
We are all honored and humbled at the opportunity to serve others. It is by God’s grace and mercy that we do what we do. As others before have done, we now are trying to impact our area with the Gospel and the love of God!
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
In every great endeavor, there are challenges and obstacles. Over the last seven years I have had five total joint replacements. As a church, we have had difficult moments. The scriptures says to, “Be not weary in well doing and in due season ye shall reap if you faint not.” The key is to hold to your dreams and press forward by God’s grace.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
In addition to being a Senior Pastor, I have written two books. The UnVeiling – A Study Guide of End Time Prophecy. Growing by Grace – A Study in Personal Holiness. Both are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Presently, I am finishing up a three volume series on The Spirit World.
Risk taking is a topic that people have widely differing views on – we’d love to hear your thoughts.
Personally, I am not a “every day risk taker.” However, their a moments in which you must take a step of faith. You prayerfully plan, look at the pros and cons, seek wise counsel, but at some point a step of faith must be made if you are going to achieve greatness. Moses did not rely upon God giving a Red Sea miracle every day but there was a day he had to have God’s miraculous help. He risked it all, to trust God!
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.hopeapostolicupc.org
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daniel.dagan.94
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@HopeApostolicUPCFlorida
