Rev. David A. Robinson

David A. Robinson, youngest of seven children, grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, on his family farm. On June 16, 1948, David exchanged marriage vows with Patricia L. Carrell, the first child of Paul and Pansy Carrell.

He worked in his family’s construction company and Patricia attended college at Indiana University and worked in retail. Patricia had agreed to marry David on one condition; that he would never become a preacher. Little did they know that God had other plans in store for their lives. Growing up in a Methodist church, David had little experience with Pentecost. This soon changed as Patricia’s mother, ''Grandma'' Carrell started inviting him to come to church with her.

Nearly two years after their marriage, David felt called of the Lord to start preaching in their home church, The United Pentecostal Assembly, informally known as the ''church on the highway'', which consisted mostly of members of the Carrell family. That same year, their son Ricky David was born. The Robinsons decided to build a new church building in Bloomington.

During this time Brother Robinson was the Youth President of Indiana. After pastoring there for nearly ten years, the Robinsons moved to pastor Christ Temple in Huntington, West Virginia. In 1960, while in West Virginia, Brother Robinson was the Home Missions Director, a Presbyter and the District Secretary. While in West Virginia, their daughter, Angelene Gayle, was born. In 1963, they built a new church building.

The Robinsons moved to Turlock, California, to pastor Full Gospel Tabernacle in 1965, and a little over a year later moved to pastor a United Pentecostal Church in Shreveport, Louisiana.

In 1967, the Robinsons went back to California, to begin evangelizing. During their four years of evangelism, they traveled across the entire country, bringing their small daughter with them. In the fall of 1972, Brother Robinson was directed of the Lord to go to Buffalo, New York, to build and grow another church, which would eventually become the congregation of New Life Center.

On December 17, 1972, the Robinson’s held their first service with a group of thirty people at Columbia Hook and Ladder Fire Club at 85 Marion St., North Tonawanda. After only a few weeks, they moved their services to a building affectionately known as ''the little brown church'', a former Free Methodist Church, at 89 Adams Street.

On July 1, 1975, after outgrowing the present building, the congregation moved to Buffalo, and shared the Redeemer Lutheran Church. The next year they moved to share the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church on a month to month basis.

Brother Robinson served as New York District Secretary and then held the position of New York District Superintendent for thirty-five years. While in office, he helped oversee the formation of the New York Metro District. He was also the Executive Presbyter of the Eastern Zone for three years and served as Honorary District Superintendent of the New York District.

Brother and Sister Robinson prayed, worked, witnessed, gave of themselves, resisted opportunities to quit, kept on giving, and remain visionary for the founding and growing of a truly apostolic church!

He passed from this life on August 10, 2014.