Gatesville Country Music Hall of Fame

Featured Performer For

October 19, 2018

David Allen our featured entertainer for October 19, 2018, is a Country Gospel Music recording artist. He has written and recorded hundreds of songs that have inspired numbers of people around the world. He produced and recorded seventeen professional recordings and CD’s of Christian country gospel music. David received the “Silver Heart Award of 2007” from the Country Gospel Music Association of Branson, MO. and the “Psalmist of the Year” award from the Central USA division. This year in September 2018, he was awarded the “Pioneer Award” from the Country Gospel Music Association of Branson.

David was born and reared on a family farm in Haskell, Texas in 1941. He now resides in his hometown of Weinert, Texas with his wife, Peggy Joyce. They have five children and thirteen grandchildren.

He received his Bible degree from Abilene Christian College in Texas. David raveled and ministered in thirty foreign countries, and all of the states in the USA. Still, Texas is where his heart and love is.

The Lord gave David a vision of prayer for America in 1976, the 200th anniversary of America. He began to lead prayer meetings in Washington D.C. and was led to encircle the USA with a revival of prayer during important presidential elections. He was one of the original prayer intercessors involved in Washington for Jesus march in 1980. He was inspired with a written document at the capital as he authored a “Declaration of Freedom from a Christian View”. He was invited to be a part of the 2001 presidential inauguration.

David is founder and President of the Heart of Love International Ministries. For thirty years, he was active in leading mission tours of compassion and acts of mercy into third-world countries. He is continuing to mentor and disciple teams to go into Mexico, Haiti, Russia, Canada, Cuba, and throughout America. David's evangelistic work includes prison outreach, special camps for teenagers, radio and television ministry, border missions, seniors RV parks, children's homes, and evangelism meetings and seminars.