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David Blandino

blandino_d.jpg“The CCO’s ministry has directly influenced where we moved, where and how we chose to raise our kids, worship, and work, and where our kids choose to live, worship, and work,” says Dave Blandino. “It continues to inform who I am, how I prioritize, how I integrate all of God’s Word into what it means to be a husband, a father, and a doctor, what it means to be in leadership roles at work, what it means to serve on boards. I try to maintain the holistic approach the CCO teaches, that there is not a sphere in life in which God does not intend his light to shine and his people to do their work.”

Dr. David Blandino graduated with a degree in mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh in 1974, and in 1978, from Pitt’s medical school, where he was voted by his classmates as the person most likely to represent the ideals of the profession. Today, he serves as a physician at the East Liberty Family Healthcare Center and UPMC Shadyside, where he teaches in the Family Practice Residency Program for which he served as director for seven years. He also volunteers as an instructor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

When Dave was an undergrad at Pitt, the CCO was just getting started. In 1975, he met his future wife, CCO staff member Barb Yeager. Dave and Barb continue to live in West Oakland, an inner-city neighborhood tucked between the university community in Oakland and the Hill District of Pittsburgh. Dave and Barb raised their three children in that neighborhood, where they continue to be active members of nearby Friendship Community Presbyterian Church.

“Where I see the CCO’s influence the most is in my family life, in the effects on people we know who have graduated from CCO ministries,” says Dave. “Our children have attended the Jubilee conference their whole lives. They attended Pittsburgh Urban Christian School, which was born out of a desire to live out a uniquely integrated Christian understanding of education which was presented at Jubilee conferences. Our daughter Katie even taught there for a short time. Because of that experience, which molded her understanding of teaching, she has followed a call to teach in an inner-city school system.

“I don’t think the maturing and depth of my faith and the striving to continue to understand and grow with God would be the same without the CCO. I couldn’t imagine being closer to where God wants me to be than where I am now. I couldn’t imagine and wouldn’t want to imagine what my life would be like without the influence of the CCO’s ministry.”