Dana Hicks -- Lead Pastor

Dana Hicks came to Real Life in June of 2006 with eighteen years of prior ministry experience. He is the founding pastor of Beginnings Church in Tucson, Arizona. Prior to that assignment, he spent six years as the Senior Pastor of Grays Harbor Community Church in Hoquiam, Washington.

Dana is a contributer to several books including: Generation Xers Talk About the Church of the Nazarene (Beacon Hill Press, 1999), Postmodern AND Wesleyan: Exploring the Boundaries and Possibiliites (Beacon Hill Press, 2009), and Love Among Us (Beacon Hill Press, 2009). He also is a contributor to Grace and Peace Magazine. 

Dana received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, the Master of Divinity degree from Nazarene Theological Seminary(Cum Laude) in Kansas City, and the Doctor of Ministry degree from the Beeson Pastor Doctoral Fellowship at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. His dissertation title was, Church Culture and Evangelistic Effectiveness.

Dana is also an Adjunct Professor of Spiritual Formation and Church Leadership for Northwest Nazarene University. He teaches for their Graduate Theological Online Education Department specializing in Ministry in the Postmodern Matrix. From time to time he also teaches undergraduate classes in the School of Theology and Christian Ministries.

Dana is the President of Gate One Seventeen, an organization that helps with orphan care and economic development in the developing world.  Currently, Gate One Seventeen is focusing on a partnership with the Ndengera Foundation in Rwanda, Africa in a project called, "GRO" (Gisenyi, Rwanda Orphans). 

Baseball consumes most of his spare time. 

Dana lives in Nampa with his three kids.

What's on my iPod

Green Day, U2, David Crowder Band, Chris Tomlin, John Mayer, podcasts from Andy Stanley, Erwin McManus, Rob Bell, and This American Life.