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Reverend David M. Dudley was born in Michigan, but moved to the South when he was five. After a few years in Alabama, his family settled in a small college town in Mississippi, where his parents still live today.

David attended Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. While there he studied psychology, astronomy and world religions, eventually earning his Bachelors Degree in Religion in 1976.

In 1977, David entered Union Seminary in Richmond, VA. After his second year, he married
fellow classmate Kathryn Mitchell. Four weeks later they flew to Korea for a
Volunteer-In-Mission year.

After graduating from Union in 1981, David accepted a call to Maysville and
New Store Presbyterian Churches in Buckingham, Virginia and served there as pastor
for three years.

In 1984, David and Kathryn were sent to Taiwan as Mission Coworkers of the newly-reunited
PCUSA. They spent the next eight years in new church development among Taiwan's Hakka minority. While there they adopted their son, Sam, and Kathryn gave birth to their daughter, Janet.

The couple returned to the United States in 1993. From 1993 until 2006, David served
as co-pastor (for eight years) and solo pastor (for five years) at Sweetwater
Presbyterian Church in Hickory, NC.

In August, 2006, David joined Pocket Presbyterian Church as our pastor!