Dave and Judi wanted to take a few moments in an interview to let you know more about themselves. Feel free to email them questions if you want to hear directly from them.
Dave: I grew up out west in Montana, Colorado, and Oregon. My dad was a church planting pastor. He would move into a small town where there was a need for a gospel-preaching church. He would work to support himself and have Bible studies to draw people to Christ. I did not know we were fairly poor; I just enjoyed life out west. I loved the mountains and spent time skiing and hunting and hiking. I came to Christ at the age of seven. I was under great conviction of my sin. I think my junior year of high school was a turning point. I was impressed by the need to read the Bible all the way through that year. I have made it my goal to do so ever since. I have never regretted that search to see and to know God in His Word. At the close of my junior year, we moved to Minnesota to be a part of a church plant in the suburbs of Minneapolis. This was a great opportunity for me. I spent this year being immersed in the ministry. 
In Minnesota, I completed my college and graduate studies. These were such formative years as I was exposed to so many truths that needed to find lodging in my heart. I learned to love history, theology, and missions. God directed me towards the mission field of Haiti and also introduced me to the love of my life, Judi. It took me up to my senior year to figure out that she was “the one” for me. I have never regretted it! She has made my journey so much fun and has been my partner in ministry and in the pursuit of Christ. I cannot imagine life without Judi. After seminary we had our first child and then moved to Haiti for ministry between 1983-1990. We expected to live out our lives here, but God had other plans. We are so thankful for what God taught us about faith and the power of God in Haiti. I have been back a few times since the turbulent, revolutionary times of the 1980s. I love the people in Haiti. God took us from the tropics of Haiti to New Brunswick, one of the eastern provinces of Canada. God gave us wonderful ministry from 1990-1996 in Saint John. We love the ocean, the beauty of the land, and the kindness of the people. We have many friends to this day that God gave us here.
Then God brought us back to the United States to northeastern Wisconsin. We lived there from 1996 to 2018 in Pembine, Wisconsin. Northland Ministries, Inc. (both the college and the camp) drew us to the area. We are so thankful for how God used us and shaped us and gave us life-long friends through staff and students. We are blessed to know many students we have worked with around the globe. I taught Bible, counseling, and led men’s discipleship on campus. It was during these years that my love for theology, both in word and in application, grew. This pursuit led me to complete my doctoral program (an emphasis in counseling) at Central Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am thankful for the institutions and people that have poured into my life the need and practice of biblical counseling. The local church has always been at the core of our lives. We love serving our Savior with His Body, the Church. I hope God allows me to continue serving Him and His church through the gospel and its implications for daily living.
During the year of 2017 God connected me with a group of elders in Denver, Colorado, who were growing a young church and committing themselves to discipleship and missional living. Through our conversations and counseling together God made it clear that He was disengaging our lives from our farm and rural community of 20+ years to move us to Denver. In August of 2018 we moved to Littleton, Colorado, where we are now engaged in missional living, counseling, and discipleship. I work full-time but love the challenge of following Christ here. The journey continues.
Longview Farm was home 1996-2018. 
Judi: Born in Torrington, Connecticut, I have many fond memories of driving through the wooded, rolling hills of New England with many old, one-room school houses, antique shops, homes from other centuries, and back roads with canopies of trees. Of course, there are modern homes and large cities, but rural Connecticut is lovely. I basically grew up in the same town of Canton, attended elementary school, middle school (while the high school was being built), and finally Canton High School. My life centered around my youth group and my church body. I am thankful for the provision of a home, for rides back and forth to youth group, and the support of my choice to attend Bible college in southern Minnesota. Whatever growth in Christ that occurred was solely the leading of the Lord, the love of my church body, youth ministers, and Christian teen friends.
I had prayed for Christ to save me as a young child probably multiple times as I drifted off to sleep. I know that He saved me when I came in faith, repenting of my sins, for the first time. I simply did not have guidance or understanding of assurance of His finished work on my behalf. At one point in high school after attending camp in New York state, I got down on my knees all alone in my bedroom. I opened to the book of Romans. In the quiet of that setting, I re-read all of the scriptures that I could pertaining to salvation. I came to realize that I had been saved as a child. I was doubting my salvation because of wandering through life without a rich walk with God. I asked God to forgive me for doubting, and I committed my life fully to Christ from that point on. The transformation came in small steps as I reached out to God and His word for guidance. The night that I came home after my high school graduation, God gave me this verse: “You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore” Psalms 16:11. Sincerely, that verse has been a truth by my side since that day in 1975.
At Bible college, I soaked in so much. I can say that I began to grow in that setting–What do I really believe? What has been forced upon me? Where will I go from here in life? Why go to church? What does growing in Christ mean? My Bible professors along with my English professors guided me in ways that they will probably never know. I became involved in what was called Church Extension. I faithfully attended a church in Minneapolis for my four years at college. I also soaked up all of the details in my classes on doctrines and the Bible in general. I asked a lot of questions. I read the Bible to find answers myself. I feel like God gently led me through those four years to find out who I really was and could be in Him. I met this wonderful guy when I was a freshman, but he was dating the girl across the hall. I was interested in him only as a friend–Dave Coats. Through the years in Bible college, we were on committees together, were class officers together, planned activities on campus together, and had classes together. At the end of our junior year, we started dating. During our senior year, he asked me to marry him. As Dave mentioned, we have lived in three different countries with our family: Haiti, Canada, and the United States. The lessons of life have been invaluable in all of these places. Most of all, the precious people that have changed our lives are numerous.
In the ensuing years, as our three children grew up, I completed a masters degree in writing from Northern Michigan University; then I went on to complete a doctoral program at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with a specialization in higher education. My dissertation title is the following: The Reed & Kellogg System of Sentence Diagramming and Its Implementation in Higher Education. I conducted an experiment using two groups of adult learners to see the difference adding sentence diagramming would make. The experiment did not show a statistical difference between the experimental group and the control group; however, the students testified of the difference that the intervention had in their personal acquisition of grammar. After three years of teaching high school early on in our marriage, several years in Haiti teaching our own children, continuing ministry in Canada, nineteen years of teaching in higher education in northeastern Wisconsin, I am now pursuing writing and editing from home. Dave and I enjoyed serving in our local church and working at a non-profit youth center in town in Wisconsin. In 2018, we moved to Colorado where I now continue my editing from home and also work for a company scheduling home inspections. God continues to grow us by His grace. The good news of the gospel saves me from myself every day–His will conquers my selfish bent to choose folly. His grace opens up paths to wisdom-living and joy.