DAVID W. SMITH spent eleven years as a pastor in the heart of Cambridge, UK, until he sailed to Africa with his young family in a Nigerian cargo ship to work in the rainforest and burgeoning cities of Africa. After returning to the UK with a host of questions, he got a PhD in secularization and evangelicalism from the University of Aberdeen, UK. He later spent time in various leadership roles at theological institutions across the UK, where he made a significant contribution to the field of missiology.