Meet The Team

Rev. Dale Glading is an ordained minister who has spent the past three decades serving prisoners and at-risk youth, first as Founder and Executive Director of the Saints Prison Ministry, and secondly as Founder and President of Risk Takers for Christ.  During his ministry career, Dale has shared the gospel – using sports as a vehicle – with an estimated 500,000 inmates in more than 400 different correctional institutions throughout North America and Africa.

 Married for 34 years to wife Deanna, they are blessed with three children and four precious grandchildren.  Dale is an accomplished speaker, a published author, and a former two-time candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. A native of New Jersey, Dale, and his family relocated to Florida in 2011.  Partnering with Inmate Encounter further expands his mission in reaching incarcerated men and women in Florida and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ.