05/21/2026
30-year Target team member. Lightbulb salesman. Accessibility advocate. And someone who has never once let a wheelchair slow him down.
Meet Dale Findlay.
Dale found Mount Calvary the practical way. It was close to home, it was Lutheran, and Pastor Lillejord (pastor at that time) made him feel welcome right away. He still talks about the elevator Lillejord championed so that everyone could get downstairs to the events. That detail matters to Dale, because Dale uses a wheelchair, and at Mount Calvary, that's never been the first thing anyone sees.
"People at Mount Calvary look at me as a person," he says. "They don't look at my wheelchair." 💙
He grew up far from the city, moved when opportunities were scarce back home, and built a life here that he's proud of. These days he works part time with Rolex Vans, helping people find accessible vehicles, because when you know what it means to need the right tools to move through the world, you help others find them too.
Ask Dale about his faith and he doesn't reach for a verse. He reaches for something the word "perseverance" and the belief that if the path is right, things will work out. And when life looks its bleakest? He looks up at the sky and says, "Well, I could really use you right now." 😄🙏 Same, Dale. Same.
His favorite hymn is On Eagle's Wings. His dinner guests from the Bible would be Thomas (who needed to see it to believe it) and Peter (who said he never would and then did anyway). He wants to know what that doubt really felt like. Honestly, that's a dinner conversation we'd all want a seat at.
And Christmas? Dale couldn't always make it home for the holidays when he first started at Target. So his friends took him in. Years later, they're now like family, and when he can't make it, they say Christmas feels incomplete. 🥺
That's the kind of person we get to have on this council. Welcome, Dale. We're so glad you're here. 💙
