Place of birth: Gary, Indiana, United States (onetime home of the Jackson Five)

Location: Travelers Rest, South Carolina, United States

My e-mail: dan.cruver@togetherforadoption.org

Favorite Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:30-31

My Boast: my boast is in the one who though he was rich, for my sake he became poor, so that by his poverty I might become rich (2 Corinthians 8:9).

Family: Wife – Melissa (Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instructional Development); Children - H (13), D (died 6 years ago at 3 years of age), I (7), and N (5)

Vocation: Before founding and directing Together for Adoption, Dan was a college professor of Bible and Theology. He has also served as a pastor of family ministries. As one who has been adopted by God and has adopted two children, Dan founded Together for Adoption to equip churches and educate Christians theologically about orphan care and horizontal adoption. Dan regularly writes and speaks about the Gospel and its implications for earthly adoption and the care of orphans. He recently wrote the foreword to Heirs with Christ: The Puritans on Adoption by Dr. Joel Beeke.

Favorite Dead Guys: John Owen, Martin Luther, Henry Martyn, Jonathan Edwards, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Edmund Clowney, George MacDonald, C. S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien

Favorite Living Guys: Hartley Cruver (my father), Brian Habig (my pastor), Tim Keller, T.F. Torrance, John Piper, Graeme Goldsworthy, Richard Hays, Peter O’Brien, and others.

A Favorite Quotation: “To know this God, who both condescends to share all that we are and makes us share in all that He is in Jesus Christ, is to be lifted up in His Spirit to share in God’s own self-knowing and self-loving until we are enabled to apprehend Him in some real measure in Himself beyond anything that we are capable of in ourselves. It is to be lifted out of ourselves, as it were, into God, until we know Him and love Him and enjoy Him in His eternal Reality as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in such a way that the Trinity enters into the fundamental fabric of our thinking of Him and constitutes the basic grammar of our worship and knowledge of the One God” (Thomas F. Torrance, The Ground and Grammar of Theology, 155).