David Campbell was born and raised in Scotland and was converted to Christ as a child. During his bachelors degree at Glasgow University he felt a call to the gospel ministry and subsequently spent four years studying at the Free Church of Scotland College in Edinburgh. After being the pastor of the Geneva Road Evangelical Baptist Church in Darlington, England for fifteen years, he began his ministry in Grace Baptist Church, Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 2002. He and his wife, Mairi, have two daughters, Megan and Caitriona.