Dr. David Downs, District Superintendent

Dr. David E. Downs has served as East Ohio District Superintendent since the summer of 2001. Prior to his district role, he served as senior pastor at Canton First Church of the Nazarene in Canton, Ohio. David and his family came to Canton from Dallas, Texas, where he had been the pastor of Dallas First Church of the Nazarene for over four years. His wife, Susan, is a fiction acquisitions editor for Summerside Press as well as a published author and formerly served as an international adoption program coordinator and licensed social worker. The Downs have five adult children, three of whom are adopted, and four grandchildren. The Downs also served as Nazarene missionaries to South Korea where Dr. Downs was a professor at the Korean Nazarene Theological College. He is a graduate of Southern Nazarene University, holding a BA in Sociology and an MA in Religion, and of Nazarene Theological Seminary, from which he earned the Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees.

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