Through a focus on development and disaster relief, Dan helps people who are "the poorest of the poor" become self-sustaining and human in the fullest sense. By engaging in location-based relationships and local resources, Dan helps those he serves become catalysts of change and develop and grow in their cultural context via mentoring and healthy access to water, food, wellness (health), education, and finances. Dan always looks for new, vital relationships and locations to implement community development.

Dan and his wife, Nora, married in 1992. They have three wonderful adult children ---Jonathan, Bryan, and Eliana --- and reside in Monument, Colo.