My godly mother led me to the Lord at a very young age. I was reared on a farm in northern Ohio and attended Bible Community Church of Mentor, where God's Word was systematically taught every Sunday. The preaching, the music, and the missionaries we supported as a church significantly influenced my life as a teenager.

I completed an undergraduate degree in Music Education from Bob Jones University in 1984 and while serving as a lay music director at Bible Community, completed a graduate degree in Church Music from BJU in 1994.

My wife, Lisa, and I (along with our five children) began attending Trinity Bible Church in 2000, after relocating to Greenville from Cameroon, Africa, where we served as GFA missionaries. Since that time, as an Administrative Director at GFA, I have had the joy of serving GFA missionaries around the world through the ministry of the GFA home office. Church music and missions are still two of my strongest interests, and I am blessed of the Lord to be actively involved in both.

Music is a wonderful gift from God. At Trinity Bible Church, we are committed to worship the Lord with music that is doctrinally strong and musically reverent, including time-honored, traditional hymns, and conservative new music which is appropriate for worship.

-Dale Crawford