Working out of Tokyo, Dale...

• ... lectures part time in theology at Japan Bible Seminary and at Tokyo Christian University
• ...leads, along with his wife Ann, the tsunami recovery ministry of the EFC of Canada Mission until early 2013
• ... ministers as the missionary church planter at Tokyo Multicultural Church (to be launched in early 2013), in partnership with Tokyo Musashino Evangelical Free Church.
• ... serves as President of the Japan Evangelical Missionary Association, a voluntary agency which networks, encourages, and equips the 1800 expatriate evangelical missionaries in Japan

Dale was born and raised in Japan as a "third culture kid" (TCK). His missionary parents, from the northern "Peace River country" in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta, served first in China with China Inland Mission and then in Japan with the Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF). Click here to read one story about the CIM 49ers, the last group of CIM missionaries to arrive in China. Dale's father was one of them.

As a child, Dale attended a missionary kid school in Sendai, Japan (a Chefoo school of the OMF) and then an international school in Kobe (Canadian Academy). But he graduated from high school in northern BC, Canada (South Peace Secondary School) while his parents were on a one year home assignment.

Dale and his wife, Ann, met while graduate students at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS). They have been based in Japan as missionaries since 1984. Their three children have all been born or raised in Japan.

Dale completed his undergraduate studies in philosophy and anthropology at Trinity Western University and Simon Fraser University, both located in the greater Vancouver area of BC, Canada. He did his graduate theological study at Regent College, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He holds a Ph.D. in systematic theology from TEDS.

Dale is ordained by the Evangelical Free Church of Canada. He and his wife have led three church planting projects: Mission EFC in Mission BC (greater Vancouver, Canada), Owariasahi EFC in Nagoya, and Sunrise Chapel (Higashimurayama EFC) in Tokyo. They served under ReachGlobal (the international mission of the EFC of America) from 1984-2004. For four of those years Dale led the Japan team of ReachGlobal. Since 2004 they have served in Japan under the Evangelical Free Church of Canada Mission.