Dale is first and foremost a passionate follower of Jesus Christ, an ordained minister of the gospel, and a frequent writer and speaker on the topic of Christian ethics in the 21st century. He’s been married to Melissa for 26 years, and they have travelled the world together working in international missions and program management for 25 of those years. Together, they were instrumental in empowering hundreds of churches in the developing world to reach out to their communities not only with the gospel, but with tools and training to help them overcome the obstacles of poverty and oppression. Dale was Chair of the BC Provincial Council for International Cooperation for four years, eight years as Program Officer with Canadian Food for the Hungry and Twelve years as Executive Director of ACCES (African Canadian Continuing Education Society). Dale has been contributor to numerous Canadian government international policy roundtables including agriculture, child rights, and normalization of relations with North Korea. Dale also worked with the UN on the Complimentary Appeal Process in Uganda in the early 2000s, coordinating HIV/AIDS responses throughout the country. His work with Child-Headed Households in post-genocide Rwanda won numerous awards and was featured in a documentary film entitled “Innocence Under Siege” which has been distributed and shown worldwide since 2001. Dale was instrumental in developing the Integrated Community Engagement poverty reduction model, which is used by nonprofits all over the world, helping them to achieve sustainable results, produce self-sufficient communities and generate the empowerment of people to take control of their own futures. Dale’s ground-breaking work on ancestral worldviews is transforming the way poverty reduction is being done in Africa. Dale is now primarily engaged with teaching and writing, mentoring Christian youth and young adults and helping people to free themselves from the shackles of doctrinal error, denominational distinctives that divide the church, and to read and understand the Bible as it was written and intended by the original authors, free from the constructs of man-made systems of rigid interpretation.
