CMI: The Creation Safari Man

This article from Creation Ministries International (CMI), published in Creation Magazine in 2015, reveals some other ministries of our editor, David Coppedge. “Creation Safaris” celebrated its 40th anniversary this year (2024).

The Creation Safari man
Carl Wieland chats with prolific creation activist David Coppedge
Creation 37(3):18–20, July 2015

David Coppedge has degrees in science education (Bob Jones University) and astrophysics (Cal State Northridge). For many years he worked for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California. Operated by Caltech, JPL is contracted to the US’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to explore the Solar System via unmanned spacecraft. David’s work at JPL involved computer systems and security, as the leader of the systems administration team for NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn. Despite his exemplary performance, David was fired from JPL, in 2011, for his open creation views. After a harrowing court case and a battle with cancer, David has now largely recovered his health and energy, and is once again running outdoor Creation Safaris and active in creation ministry.

David Coppedge readily acknowledges that his passionate commitment to an amazingly multifaceted creation-focused ministry—while in a demanding technology job in the space exploration industry—has a lot to do with his “very dedicated, strong Christian parents”. David says that for 45 years, “they were a team running a vibrant Christian youth center ministry.” His late father and mother, James and Elsa, “would pick up young people from 30 miles around to bring them to our ranch in the San Fernando Valley. They reached thousands of children and teens; many became missionaries and vibrant Christians when they grew up.”

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