At SummitCare Penrith, resident David brings with him a lifetime of creativity, generosity and beautifully detailed craftsmanship. As the founder of the interdenominational group ‘Children For Christ’, David has spent 24 years working from a warehouse in Penrith, helping bring joy to children across the world. Each year, his team produces toy crafts and models for more than 22,000 children, many of them sent to communities in Africa and the Philippines.
“If it was my choice, I’d be working in that warehouse every day,” David shared with a smile. His passion is evident as he describes the wooden and plastic crafts his team creates from tiny cars, trucks, planes, helicopters, swing sets and even miniature ice-cream shop fronts. Each comes with assembly instructions illustrated by David himself, drawing on skills he first developed while studying architecture and town planning at university.
Before founding his charity, David spent years as an architectural draftsman and later a town planner, creating technical drawings, designing developments and even building scale models of what shopping centres like Mt Druitt could look like. “Model making is something I’ve enjoyed my whole life,” he said. “Even as a kid.”
David grew up as the younger of two sons to Australian-born parents. Though he never married or had children of his own, he proudly speaks of the children he helped raise and support over the years.
These days, David enjoys reading, sketching architectural designs and sharing his crafts with visiting preschoolers, something that brings him just as much joy as it brings the children. He also appreciates good music, especially Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, The Beatles and ABBA.
David’s passion for giving, creating and connecting with others leaves a lasting impression on everyone he meets.
