Ep. 116: Pastor Dale Dalman on Visiting the Midwest’s Largest Immigration Detention Center

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Noah has a conversation with Pastor Dale Dalman on his visits to North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, MI—the Midwest’s largest immigrant detention center. Dale shares as a pastor from a biblical, non-partisan perspective on what’s happening with ICE, immigrant arrests, what our laws are and how they’re used, and the process immigrants go through at detention centers. 

Dale Dalman is a retired missionary and pastor with the Evangelical Covenant Church denomination. He served as a missionary to Venezuela and senior pastor to a Hispanic church in Michigan. He currently serves with the Clergy on Patrol program with the Grand Rapids Police Department and is Mayor Pro Tem of the city of Rockford, MI. He’s been married to his wife Sheryl for 43 years and has 3 married children and 7 grandchildren. He has a bachelor’s degree from Moody Bible Institute and a master’s degree from Calvin Theological Seminary. 

Take 7 minutes and listen to the recent NPR story of Pastor Dale’s visits to the immigration detention center.

Listen to Noah’s interview with World Relief and the Evangelical Immigration Table’s Matthew Soerens on Understanding Immigration from a Biblical Perspective

Advocate for Immigrants and Refugees with World Relief of the National Association of Evangelicals

Noah’s blog: A Biblical Understanding of Romans 13, “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities…”

Dale’s brand new organization is Hope for Neighbors. You can contact them at HopeforNeighborsMI@gmail.com. Here are their Areas of Support:

You can give to Dale’s ministry at North Lake via his Venmo account @Dale-Dalman – this money goes toward gift cards for families, clothing, train and bus tickets, and detainees’ accounts. 

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Noah is the founding pastor of Mosaic Church, a multi-ethnic church in urban Grand Rapids, MI. He is a grad of Grand Rapids Theological Seminary.
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