About Dale Little
Missionary theologian Dale Little is the author of this site.View his curriculum vitae (cv).
Visit his ministry and personal website: tokyolittles.net.
Working out of southern coastal Maine USA for most of the year and Tokyo Japan for about 2 months a year, Dale is the coordinating pastor of Tokyo Multicultural Church that he and his wife launched out of their apartment complex in 2013. Dale began serving in Evangelical Free Church (EFC America and EFC Canada) church planting, mission field leadership and theological education in Japan in 1984. He is ordained in the EFC Canada.
Dale was born and raised in Japan as a "third culture kid" (TCK) or "missionary kid" (MK). He attended a small elementary boarding school for missionary children in Sendai, Japan (a Chefoo school of the Overseas Missionary Fellowship) and then an international high school in Kobe (Canadian Academy). But he graduated from high school in Dawson Creek, BC, Canada (Dawson Creek Secondary School) at “Mile Zero” of the Alaska highway while his parents were on a home assignment.
His degrees come from Trinity Western University (A.A.), Simon Fraser University (B.A.—philosophy and anthropology), and Regent College (Dip.C.S.). He also studied at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. But he completed his M.Div. and Ph.D. (systematic theology) at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS). His theological interests lie in theological methodology, theology of mission, and theology of religions, with an increasing focus on developing a theology of/for church planting.
For 23 years through Dec 2024, Dale was adjunct faculty at Japan Bible Seminary in Tokyo where he lectured part-time in systematic theology (in Japanese). As a result he hopes to publish a book in Japanese on Contemporary Theology. He has also taught at Tokyo Christian University and ACTS Seminaries (greater Vancouver BC Canada).
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Dale was born and raised in Japan as a "third culture kid" (TCK) or "missionary kid" (MK). He attended a small elementary boarding school for missionary children in Sendai, Japan (a Chefoo school of the Overseas Missionary Fellowship) and then an international high school in Kobe (Canadian Academy). But he graduated from high school in Dawson Creek, BC, Canada (Dawson Creek Secondary School) at “Mile Zero” of the Alaska highway while his parents were on a home assignment.
His degrees come from Trinity Western University (A.A.), Simon Fraser University (B.A.—philosophy and anthropology), and Regent College (Dip.C.S.). He also studied at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. But he completed his M.Div. and Ph.D. (systematic theology) at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS). His theological interests lie in theological methodology, theology of mission, and theology of religions, with an increasing focus on developing a theology of/for church planting.
For 23 years through Dec 2024, Dale was adjunct faculty at Japan Bible Seminary in Tokyo where he lectured part-time in systematic theology (in Japanese). As a result he hopes to publish a book in Japanese on Contemporary Theology. He has also taught at Tokyo Christian University and ACTS Seminaries (greater Vancouver BC Canada).
See here for further profile information.
...updated June 2024