Dr David Brake’s Biography

Born 1943 to a Christian evangelical missionary family in southern Syria. The oldest of 5 children. Our father Rev. Abraham Brake brought the family to the United States in 1955 but continued his missionary ministry in the five churches he founded in Syria including a church in Soueida, Salkad, & Shahba in southern Syria, and a church in Damascus and Homs, Syria.

He also established an orphanage and Christian School in Beirut, Lebanon. God blessed our Godly father & mother with five children with David the oldest.

Rev. Brake started Sable Baptist Church in Aurora, CO with the help of Rev. Harrah.

The churches Rev. Brake started in Syria continue to be a blessing to their communities and are being supported by the Brake family. Family lived in west Denver, Colorado till 1960. David & siblings attended Denver Christian School. Delivered the Rocky Mountain News paper before school and the Denver Post after school on a bicycle. David Graduated from Denver Christian High School in 1960. Family moved to Aurora, Colorado in 1960 after helping build a house there.

Unfortunately our father was brutally martyred in Beirut in his orphanage in 1980 during the Lebanese civil war.

Education

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 1960-64. Majored in chemistry. Minored in pre-med.

Worked as a roofer in the summer, Christmas break & spring break. Tuition was $90 a semester then. Father wanted me to go into Bible ministry. Mom wanted me to become a physician.

University of Colorado School of Medicine 1964-68. Tuition was then $550 a semester.

Internal Medicine Internship Cincinnati General Hospital 1968-69. Diagnostic Radiology Residency University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 1969-72.

Air Force 1972-74

Sheppard Air Force Base Hospital Radiologist serving during the Vietnam War.

Professional Career 1972-2022

Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, KS 1974-2022.

University of KS Associate Professor, Radiology Faculty 1974-2022.

Chairman Dept of Radiology UK School of Medicine Wichita 1990-2008. Educated & trained Radiology Residents-graduating 3 Residents each year.

God’s blessings on our immediate family:

Married Nancy Sue Ward Sept. 8 1967.

God blessed Nancy & me with four lovely children. They are Godly, professionally successful, and have each been blessed with several lovely children.

Ministry opportunities

Taught Sunday School 5th & 6th grade boys at Sable Baptist Church during college & medical school. Adult Sunday School teacher at several churches in Wichita, KS. In 1980 my vacular interventional nurse told me her church sunday school class needed a teacher for the summer. That fall I was asked to continue teaching the class which I did until 2020 (COVID). I did Men’s fellowship ministry at another church in Wichita. I have also done Sunday messages at several churches we attended including Wichita, KS churches.

Have assembled 10 note books of Sunday School lessons and messages.