Coad's Caribbean Chronicles: Dale and Patti Coad's Bio

Monday, April 11, 2011

Dale and Patti Coad's Bio

Biography

As the Caribbean Area Directors for the Assemblies of God World Missions (AGWM) Dale and Patti help coordinate the 130 missionaries serving in the 20 countries of the Caribbean and the West Indies. These countries include: Haiti, the Bahamas, the Grand Caymans, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad, St. Vincent and Antigua, all of which have resident missionaries.

In the countries that don’t have resident missionaries, there are ongoing ministries from the U.S. based missionaries who come alongside the strong national church and work together to help disciple its leadership in its development, provide compassion ministries, strengthen their resolve by partnering with them in the planning and development of major projects and their ongoing ministries. One such country is Cuba, where an ongoing revival keeps amazing all involved.

Background: Dale was called to pastoral ministry while he was serving in the Air Force. After the Air Force, Dale studied at Southern California College (now Vanguards) where he became the director of the mission’s program. His mission’s experience includes Hawaii, Denmark, Latvia (part of the former Soviet Union) and U.S. home missions.

After graduation, he served in two churches as a youth pastor, a single’s pastor, director of Christian Education and Evangelism. After 8 years of pastoral ministry, Dale returned to Vanguards to pursue a Master’s degree. During his program of study, God place a very specific call on his life for missions. His studies led him to a strong conviction of the commission of the church to reach the whole world with the message of God’s Kingdom.

Since that call, Dale has invested his life into missions, first with LACC in the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean for 18 years and presently as the Caribbean Area Director for the last five years.

The family: Steven (son) and Kristin (daughter-in-law) are pioneer pastors in Sarasota, FL. Shane Comellas (son-in-law) and Jaimee (daughter) are church planting in Morrisville, N.C. Jon (son) and Alicia (daughter-in-law) are children’s pastor in Camp Hill.