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Dave Ungar

Dave Ungar

Riverview,FL

Summary

With over 30 years of ministry experience in both large and small churches, I have a passion first and foremost for a deep commitment to the word of God and sound doctrine. I prioritize soul-winning, discipleship, and outreach as key strategies to foster church growth and build a thriving, spiritually enriched community.

My commitment to the Great Commission has driven me to lead effective outreach programs that have touched lives locally and globally, bringing many to Christ.

I believe in fostering spiritual growth within the church, mentoring believers to become mature disciples and leaders. My ministry extends beyond the local church, embracing a global vision through active participation in international missions.

At the heart of my ministry is a deep love for people and a relentless pursuit of God's call to see people come to Christ and make disciples of all nations.

Overview

36
36
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Pastor

Friendship Baptist Church
09.2018 - Current
  • Teaching, oversight, supervised, and was responsible for all areas of operation
  • Organized, planned, led and equipped adults for their ministries
  • Training, organizing, and developing leaders to fulfill all aspects of the mission
  • Taught, trained, and discipled groups of people in leadership, task and goal achieving, interpersonal skills, relationship development, conflict resolution, team building, and character development.
  • Trained adult teachers to plan, organize, oversee and lead in their perspective ministries.
  • Organized, oversaw, led and trained team members in local and international mission work.
  • Led weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual meetings to insure the mission was carried out and fulfilled.
  • Planned and oversaw operating budget.
  • Performed weddings, funerals, the Lord's Supper, and baptismal services and counseling.
  • Held outreach events for the community.
  • Started as the interim pastor then transitioned to permanent senior pastor.

Evangelist

Self-employeed
09.2013 - Current

As an evangelist I travel to multiple states holding revival in churches across the country, spreading the gospel, and supporting ministry staff and the congregation in their mission to reach the lost and empower and encourage the saints.

My passion lies in igniting spiritual renewal and equipping believers to deepen their faith and boldly share with others to see people saved for the glory of God.

Senior Pastor

Cornerstone Baptist Church
01.2010 - 04.2012
  • Teaching, oversight, supervised, and was responsible for all areas of operation
  • Organized, planned, led and equipped adults for their ministries
  • Training, organizing, and developing leaders to fulfill all aspects of the mission
  • Taught, trained, and discipled groups of over 250 people in leadership, task and goal achieving, interpersonal skills, relationship development, conflict resolution, team building, and character development.
  • Trained adult teachers to plan, organize, oversee and lead in their perspective ministries.
  • Organized, oversaw, led and trained team members in local and international mission work.
  • Led weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual meetings to insure the mission was carried out and fulfilled.
  • Planned and oversaw operating budget.
  • Performed weddings, funerals, the Lord's Supper, and baptismal services and counseling.
  • Held outreach events for the community.
  • Produced in-depth team leader and team member manuals.

Ministerial Staff

Bell Shoals Baptist Church
01.2009 - 01.2010
  • Assisted in preaching, teaching, evangelism, outreach, discipleship, pastoral care, and church planting of 8000 member church.
  • Adjunctive professor at the Evangelical Bible College and Seminary at First Baptist Church of Plant City.

Senior Pastor

First Baptist Church Homerville
12.2007 - 09.2008
  • Teaching, oversight, supervised, and was responsible for all areas of operation
  • Organized, planned, led and equipped adults for their ministries
  • Training, organizing, and developing leaders to fulfill all aspects of the mission
  • Taught, trained, and discipled groups of over 250 people in leadership, task and goal achieving, interpersonal skills, relationship development, conflict resolution, team building, and character development.
  • Trained adult teachers to plan, organize, oversee and lead in their perspective ministries.
  • Organized, oversaw, led and trained team members in local and international mission work.
  • Led weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual meetings to insure the mission was carried out and fulfilled.
  • Planned and oversaw operating budget.
  • Performed weddings, funerals, the Lord's Supper, and baptismal services and counseling.
  • Held outreach events for the community.
  • Produced in-depth team leader and team member manuals.

Pastor of Singles and College

First Baptist Church Brandon
03.2003 - 12.2007
  • Led and equipped singles and college students in discipleship and spiritual maturity.
  • Started and organized a singles global mission team to fulfill Acts 1:8.
  • Led Trips to: Florida Baptist Children’s Home, Stepping Stone Farms, Seafarers Ministry, Inner City, New church start in Miami, Florida, aided Chalmette Baptist Church in New Orleans (Katrina), & Costa Rica.
  • Equipped entrusted, engaged and empowered singles/college students and teachers to do the work of the ministry and to help them fulfill God’s calling in their life Ephesians 4.
  • Organized, planned, promoted and gave oversight to all single and college student Sunday school classes, ages ranging from 18 to senior adult (10 classes in all).
  • Started new collegiate ministry called “The Cross” which met every Tuesday night. Planned, preached, organized and promoted this event which had worship, preaching and fellowship.
  • Planned, promoted, organized, gave oversight and preached at our singles event called “Awaken” for all singles, ages 18 and up. “Awaken” replaced “The Gathering” our previous ministry. Highest attendance 350+.
  • Started a new Divorce Care Ministry on Thursday nights.
  • Planned, promoted, and gave oversight to the Single Moms’ Network consisting of a team of four ladies, each one providing specialized services to meet all the demanding and unique spiritual, emotional, and physical needs of single moms.
  • Preached on Wednesday and Sunday nights in main sanctuary as needed.
  • Taught Sunday school and led teacher training.
  • Performed wedding ceremonies, baptisms and conducted funeral services.

Associate Pastor

Ocean View Baptist Church
01.2000 - 03.2003
  • Assumed full senior pastor’s duties anytime the senior pastor was away.
  • Expository preaching through the Books of the Bible every Sunday night.
  • Preached series on cults, religions, and other Biblical topics.
  • Preached revivals in other churches and occasional Sunday Morning fill-ins for other senior pastors.
  • Organized, planned and facilitated Sunday school from pre-school to senior adults.
  • Created manuals for training and organizing all aspects of Sunday school.
  • Taught, trained and discipled Sunday school teachers in Biblical hermeneutics and leadership principles.
  • Trained Sunday school teachers to plan, organize and shepherd their classes.
  • Organized Evangelism training and weekly evangelistic outreach.
  • Taught adult Sunday school.
  • Organized, planned and led mission trips around the world.
  • Trained, discipled and raised up mission team leaders to lead teams around the world.
  • Personally led mission teams to Hungary, France, Chile, and in the USA. Our goal was to be on all five major continents. We made it to three in two and a half years with over 14 trips during that time. Future trips that were in the works were to Africa and China.
  • Organized and led the first international missions conference at Ocean View Baptist.
  • Met quarterly with Ocean View Global Mission team to plan and organize mission activities to fulfill Acts 1:8.
  • Produced in-depth team leader and team member manuals with application packets for short-term mission trips.
  • Fully supported the SBC Cooperative Program with 10-12 percent of our working church budget.
  • Helped oversee, promote, and teach VBS.
  • Performed weddings, funerals, the Lord’s Supper and baptismal services.• Helped oversee the overall church budget.
  • Hospital visitation.
  • General Biblical counseling.
  • Produced a professional video with Apologist, Eric Barger on cults.
  • Helped in overseeing and planning building programs.
  • Participated in local, state and SBC matters.

Youth & Singles/College Pastor

Ocean View Baptist Church
01.1997 - 01.2000
  • Organized and planned activities, taught, preached and discipled the youth and singles.
  • Led both groups in evangelism outreach and in-reach events.
  • Taught teachers basic Bible hermeneutics.
  • Started and organized “Light House Ministry.”
  • Mid-week worship/preaching/fellowship ministry.
  • Led Sunday school teachers to Ridge Crest, NC for teacher training and organized teacher workshop for teacher development.
  • Preached youth and singles revivals in the U.S. and around the world.
  • Organized and helped new youth and singles pastors to be better prepared for their ministries.

E-4 Senior Airman Honorable Discharge Fuel Systems

United States Air Force
09.1988 - 04.1996
  • Performed duties as ordered for the United States Air Force on multiple Air Force bases.

Minister of Singles and the Unaccompanied

Missionary Baptist Church
01.1994 - 01.1995
  • Organized events, taught Sunday school and personally discipled them.
  • Preached when needed in the Sunday morning and evening services, counseled, preached revivals in other areas of Korea.
  • Gave teaching support to an International Christian school in Songtan, Korea.
  • Taught Bible studies to the Single International Missionaries and Korean College students.
  • Helped build and move the location of Missionary Baptist Church due to the growth it experience.

Education

Master of Arts - Christian Education

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Wake Forest, NC
05.2000

Bachelor of Arts - Biblical Studies/Pastoral/Language

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Wake Forest, NC
05.1998

Ministry Objective

The three basic objectives in my ministry are:

1.) To share the gospel with those who have not personally trusted in the saving grace of Jesus Christ.

2.) To disciple Christians into spiritual maturity through the teaching and preaching of God’s word

      through the pulpit and Sunday school.

3.) To insure that all ministries ultimate goals are to glorify and exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and lead the

      lost to saving faith in Him.

Family

I was born in Spokane, Washington on April 21, 1967. I married my wife Sherre on October 2, 1999. Sherre is from Streetsboro, Ohio. 

She is a Registered Nurse specializing in Critical Care. We have a 23 year old son David and a 20 year old son Daniel.

Personal Statement of Faith

I thought I was saved at the age of thirteen. I was rarely in church prior to that age and afterward until

I was twenty-three. My parents came to know the Lord December 29, 1989. My brother Larry, who

was saved three years prior, led my parents to the Lord. I maintained the testimony I was saved, until

December 30, 1990 the day I truly came to know the Lord Jesus Christ as my Savior. I lived a lie for ten

years thinking I was saved but I lacked genuine repentance of sin. I was led to the Lord by my parents and

brother. I was baptized by immersion that very night after I was saved. I was called to preach in 1995 while

in Songtan, Korea. I surrendered to full time ministry in April 1996 at Westside Baptist Church, Jacksonville,

Florida. And was ordained and licensed in 1997. I believe the Bible is the inspired, infallible, inerrant word

of God. I believe that God is one God, showing himself in three distinct persons, God the Father, God

the Son and God the Holy Spirit. I believe that Salvation is the work of God alone and no human efforts

whatsoever can save a person according to Ephesians 2:8-9. Salvation can only be obtained by faith in

the shed blood of Jesus Christ, His death, burial and bodily resurrection. A person must be willing to turn

from sin and self, at the same time turn to the one true living God, Jesus Christ our Savior. (John 14:6) This

can only be done by the working power of the Holy Spirit in the sinner’s life. I believe in a literal Heaven

and Hell. Those who place all their trust in Jesus Christ, His finished work on the cross and His literal

resurrection from the dead will go to Heaven. Those who do not will go to an eternal Hell separated from

God. I believe that every true Born-Again believer is responsible to fulfill the great commission given by

the Lord Jesus in Matthew 28 and Acts 1:8. In addition, every Born-Again believer is to insure that every

endeavor they make in their Christian service is to exalt, magnify and glorify the Lord Jesus Christ in their everyday lives. 

Timeline

Senior Pastor

Friendship Baptist Church
09.2018 - Current

Evangelist

Self-employeed
09.2013 - Current

Senior Pastor

Cornerstone Baptist Church
01.2010 - 04.2012

Ministerial Staff

Bell Shoals Baptist Church
01.2009 - 01.2010

Senior Pastor

First Baptist Church Homerville
12.2007 - 09.2008

Pastor of Singles and College

First Baptist Church Brandon
03.2003 - 12.2007

Associate Pastor

Ocean View Baptist Church
01.2000 - 03.2003

Youth & Singles/College Pastor

Ocean View Baptist Church
01.1997 - 01.2000

Minister of Singles and the Unaccompanied

Missionary Baptist Church
01.1994 - 01.1995

E-4 Senior Airman Honorable Discharge Fuel Systems

United States Air Force
09.1988 - 04.1996

Master of Arts - Christian Education

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Bachelor of Arts - Biblical Studies/Pastoral/Language

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Dave Ungar