Pastor Dale Meador, publisher of www.ForGodsSake.Net and www.PastorDale.com, is founding pastor of Bear Creek Church in Medford, Oregon and Coram Deo Church in Grants Pass, Oregon. He has been married to the former Nancy Carroll since 1977 and together they are blessed to be the parents of two sons and a daughter, all homeschooled. David, 22, graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and is a Lieutenant in the US Army. Stephen, 19, has served with missionaries with Project Amazon in northern Brazil and is a junior at Southern Oregon University in Ashland and is a Community Service Officer with the local police department and an aircraft line service technician at the Medford Airport. Anne, 15, is still homeschooled and helps a neighbor family with quadruplets and practices her piano and flute.

Pastor Dale holds a Master of Divinity from Westminster Theological Seminary in California and was pastor for 13 years of a community church near San Diego. In addition to his ministry to the congregation at BCC, he speaks at marriage retreats and parenting conferences, teaches classes in public speaking, and contributes articles to other websites and to Christian periodicals such as Family Reformation and Homeschooling Today. He has preached or taught in Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa and Israel. With Brian Phelps and Perry Atkinson, he hosted the The Dove Book Club, a radio talk show. Before he became a pastor in 1984, he worked as an offshore oilfield roustabout, fence builder, volunteer fireman, and ad agency gopher. He snowboards and runs, but isn’t very good at either.