Dr. Dale L. Johnson

Founder and Executive Director

Dr. Johnson has a Bachelor of Science from Howard University, a Masters of Education from the University of Virginia, a Masters of Divinity from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology and a Doctor of Ministry from United Theological Seminary. She is a former public school teacher and Elementary Principal. She served as the Assistant Dean of the School of Theology at Virginia University of Lynchburg. She is the former Pastor of The Way of The Cross Baptist Church, and served as a Chaplain Resident at UVA Medical Center. She is a 2008 graduate of the Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention Pastoral Excellence Program (PEP). While participating in the PEP program she studied and ministered in Guyana, Jamaica and South Africa.

She has traveled extensively in ministry to Ghana, West Africa since 1999 and in Kenya since 2005. She is an active member of Faith Christian Center International where she served as the Outreach Ministries Director. She is a Minister and serves with her husband as an Elder. She also leads the Missions Ministry Team.

She serves on the Advisory Board of the Southern Albemarle Family Practice. She is an honorable Queenmother in Tabre, Ghana, West Africa, her stool name is Nana Akosua Boatemaa II. She is known there as their “Queen mother of Development.”

Dr. Johnson did her doctoral  work in rural Tabre, Ghana, West Africa, with the Tabre Women Association in developing sustainable trade businesses. Presently she is working with Grandmothers and widows in Kenya, and Winneba, Ghana. 

In rural Kipsitet, Kenya The Helen Project International Inc. has spearheaded building a Women’s Center and Hostel with assistance from other donors. 

In August 2013 a Micro -Lending Project was established in Winneba, Ghana which has benefited thirty-two Grandmothers who were selected from a cross section of the community. These Grandmothers each received $100.00 toward starting their own self sustaining business.

She is the author of Forget Me Not A Journey in Remembrance. Doctoral studies work Empowering Vessels of Hope: Spirituality and Sustainability Through Faith In Rural Tabre, Ghana, West Africa.

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