Daniel Gilham first came to CCIC-SV when he was in third grade. After studying Creative Writing at Rhodes College in Memphis, Daniel worked for a year at a Christian non-profit in East Palo Alto running an after-school middle school program. After finishing the year, Dan Matsuoka roped him into giving CCIC-SV youth a ride to the beach. At the beach, the youth roped him into going to youth group the following day. Shortly after he came on as a youth intern, and has been doing that until he was hired full-time in August 2017.

Daniel graduated from Western Seminary with an M.Div in December 2017 and married in May 2018 He loves playing guitar, playing basketball, and reading. He reads a lot of different books, but his favorite book is the Bible.