Meet Dale and Cheryl Talsma

Serving the Lord in Nigeria and globally

Cheryl’s birthday: September 27
Dale’s birthday: October 22

More than anything, we want people to have life in all its fullness. Being in the truth, loving and loved, free from guilt and free to serve, these are the real core components of a full Life. The truth is: There is a God— One. Believed in or not, he is there. And there is moral failure— all of us. The truth is: the penalty for sin is death— believe it or not. But love came and the power of sin was broken. One Man! Perfect love! The truth is: there is salvation and the fullness of Life— and it is freely available!

Cheryl and I want more than anything that others too can know such Life in all its fullness. And as God grants us breath in this life, we want to serve him in serving others, making him and his salvation known. From the beginning till now, we have clearly seen that God, by including us among the conveyors of his truth and salvation, has indeed put his great treasure of this message of life in “jars of clay” (2 Cor. 4:7). But so it is supposed to be, so that the treasure will be seen to be of God, not of us.

Dale and Cheryl currently live in Nigeria.
Cheryl serves as an elementary school teacher at Hillcrest school in Jos, Nigeria. This is a Christian international school that serves the children of missionaries as well as the children of international and, primarily, Nigerian families. She is also Coordinator for the care of expatriate missionary staff who teach and serve at Hillcrest.

As International Missionary Developer, Dale works to help facilitate the joining of resources from around the world in order to multiply the sending of Lutheran missionaries to where there is need. Today the gospel has borne fruit around the world. Yet some churches in some countries often think they are too poor to send missionaries, or not trained enough, or too limited in people and experience. But we know that God has chosen the weak things to shame the strong. God does not regard as limitations that which we might consider to be so, nor does he depend on the “biggest”, “best” and most “state-of-the- art”. He just needs some “jars of clay”!

We seek to raise up a truly global contingent of missionaries for the proclamation of the Gospel:

• global in participation (from any country; working together, multinational, multi-ethnic)
• global as to the senders (missionaries can be sent from any country)
• global in places of service (missionaries from anywhere can serve anywhere)

Dale and Cheri, with their five children, had served with the Lutheran Church of Nigeria for 13 years as missionaries of the LCMS (USA) in the 1980s and 1990s. They then served in Guatemala for 7 years under the same mission, where Dale was also responsible for facilitating LCMS mission work in the Caribbean. Cheryl completed a degree in elementary education in 2011 and taught at a Lutheran school in Fort Lauderdale for three years before coming to Hillcrest School in 2016..

Dale and Cheryl’s children are scattered in various places on 3 continents. Their daughter Tiffany is married to Luan Vo and they have one daughter, Elynna – living and working in Vietnam.  Adam is married. to Vivienne and they have two daughters, Aamizara and Aariya – living and working in Nigeria. Tobiah is a nurse in California. Dalan is working in Michigan as a data tech. And our youngest Jason is working in design and production in California.

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