“I don't want a week of prayer; I want a lifetime of prayer until Jesus comes.”
- Morris Venden
Daniel Smith, known around the world as Pastor Dan
Retired in 2019 from the Garden Grove SDA Church after 45 years of years as a pastor in Oregon, Illinois, and California. He grew up in Thailand, the son of missionaries, went to high school in Singapore, college at Pacific Union College in California, and finished Seminary with M.Div. and D.Min. degrees. In 1995 he began to add speaking overseas and mission trips to his ministry, and has taken thousands on trips, mostly in Southeast Asia--Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and India.
Since retirement, besides being the interim pastor of the Moreno Valley SDA Church, he and a group established GRACE FORCE, a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to partnering with QUIET HOUR MINISTRIES (where Pastor Dan is a part-time global evangelist) to hold public evangelistic series around the world, and building churches and schools and supporting other development projects as the calls come in.