Dale works in the artistic marketplace and Christian community at large.  By trade, Dale is a musical arranger/producer/composer and vocal teacher and coach. He came to live in Lisbon, Portugal from California in 1983, working as Creative Ministries Director for Youth for Christ-Portugal, for 11 years.  Since 1994, Dale works free-lance within the Portuguese recording/television industry.  He performs regularly with his wife, poet Lurdes Saramago Chappell, with their original material for both Christian and non-Christian audiences. They oversee as well the Christian home-church fellowship "Koinonia Comunidade Cristã" which they began in ’94. He is presently vocal director for the television production company, Plural Entertainment, and the Politeama Musical Theatre in Lisbon.