David Scott Chambers

David Scott Chambers, 66, of the Crafton neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA, passed away in his sleep on April 27th, 2024.

Dave was born on April 19th, 1958 in Hackensack, NJ to Alma and Gordon Chambers. As a child, he was fond of making friends, riding his bike around the neighborhood, spending time with his cousins, teasing his sister Bonnie, and playing sports – especially football. He graduated from Hightstown High School in 1976 and went on to study music at Trenton State College (now the College of New Jersey), becoming involved in InterVarsity Fellowship and graduating in 1980. As a young man, he enjoyed playing trombone and touring Europe and North America with a Christian musical group called His Ambassadors.

In 1983, Dave married Martha Palmer (now Harden), took a job at a computer company, and had two children, Caity and Keven. After several successful years in the computer industry, he felt God calling him to full-time ministry. Risking an unknown future and loss of security, the family packed up, left their Hamilton, NJ home and moved across the country to Denver, CO, where Dave entered the MDiv program at Denver Seminary. After four years of being a full-time student, he graduated in 2000 and was ordained in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. He became a pastor at Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church in Greenwood Village, CO.

In 2002 he was called to North Park Church in Wexford, PA where he honed his gift of ministering to the sick, the hurting, the least, last, and lost. After a brief stint in Princeton, NJ, he returned to the Pittsburgh area in 2010, where he began a new career as a hospice chaplain.

During these last fourteen years, innumerable lives have been touched through Dave’s gift of connecting and listening. He emanated the heart of Jesus to everyone he met, and was always willing to laugh, to cry, to sing, to sit and be still with his patients and their families. He was eager to share the gospel with those who needed it most and helped many people find forgiveness and healing.

Dave loved music. He loved to sing. He loved celebrating his Irish roots. He loved a glass of really good sipping whiskey. He loved cars, especially Mustangs. He loved his family, his dogs, a long road trip, an ice cold glass of water on a hot day, dad jokes, making pottery, watching the leaves turn in the fall, the Steelers, Penguins, and Pirates, gardening, reading to his grandchildren, hot coffee, Gaither, praying. Dave persevered through incredible mental and physical health challenges during his life, all the while holding tenaciously to his faith. We praise God that he is now safe and whole with his Savior whom he loved so well. “So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light and momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:16-18)

A service honoring Dave’s life will be held on Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 at 2 o’clock in the afternoon at the Church of the Ascension, 4729 Ellsworth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.

All arrangements entrusted to Pittsburgh Cremation & Funeral Care, Robinson Township.