David Swanson

David is the founding pastor of New Community Covenant Church, a multiracial congregation on the South Side of Chicago. He is also the founder of New Community Outreach, a neighborhood nonprofit which addresses community trauma through restorative practices. He previously served as a Director of Church Planting for the Evangelical Covenant Church. David and Maggie have been married for more than twenty years and have two sons. David is the author of Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Discipleship (2020) and is currently writing a book about the intersection of racial and environmental justice (Coming in 2024). David is on the Missio Alliance Writing Team.