Dave gibbons pastor biography
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Dave Gibbons
English comics artist and writer
For other people named David Gibbons, see David Gibbons (disambiguation).
David Chester Gibbons[1] (born 14 April 1949)[2] is an English comics artist, writer and sometimes letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything". He was an artist for 2000 AD, for which he contributed a large body of work from its first issue in 1977.
Early life
[edit]Gibbons was born on 14 April 1949, at Forest Gate Hospital in London, to Chester, a town planner, and Gladys, a secretary. He began reading comic books at the age of seven. A self-taught artist, he illustrated his own comic strips. Gibbons became a building surveyor but eventually entered the UK comics industry as a letterer for IPC Media. He left his surveyor job to focus on his comics career.[1]
British comics work
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Dave Gibbons: Getting to the Fringe
Interview bygd James Long
When property acquisition and ambitious building plans were thwarted, NewSong Church in Irvine, Calif., was forced to reassess its direction. In the process it reaffirmed the call to be a Church Without Walls, in which “everyone plays,” not just paid personal. As Social Entrepreneur and Lead Pastor Dave Gibbons tells it, in a sound bite for these times of economic uncertainty: “Scarcity brings clarity.” When resources are super-abundant, you can proceed with flawed assumptions for a long, long time. In more pinched circumstances, you have to examine your true values and build on them. For NewSong, that means reaching the fringe, focusing active compassion on the most marginalized among us.
Gibbons is now convinced, had their original plans unfolded without utmaning, the church would have become more inwardly focused, and valuable resources would have been squandered on overhead. Instead,
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Collaborative Trait
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