Dan and Michelle Dore Reaching the Unreached in West Africa About
A Short Biography
Dan and Michelle enjoyed growing up in central New Hampshire. They met for the first time at a retreat for High School students in Hooksett, NH. They both placed their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation in their teen years. Neither had ever heard of missions before. One year after they were married, they heard a missionary speaker for the first time, a former pastor from Pennsylvania, who came up to NH at the invitation of their local church. They were never the same! Dan and Michelle committed their lives to serving Christ anywhere in the world He would lead them.
After five years of training (Bible School, Missions Institute, and Language and Linguistics Institute) the Dore family travelled to Guinea, West Africa, arriving in July of 1990. They brought their three children with them, and their fourth child was born in Guinea in 1993.
As part of a multi-national missionary team in Africa, the Dores have served in various support roles (teaching French, teaching in a homeschool co-op, running the Guest House, and supply buying) as well as in a village church-planting ministry. They had to learn the French language, then a tribal language called “Susu.” Dan was part of the field’s leadership team for seventeen years, as Field Director for Guinea for six years, then serving on the West Africa regional leadership team for the past two years. Dan and Michelle have recently changed ministries and are now part of the PGA Team (People Group Assessment, not the Professional Golfer’s Association) which requires them to travel to other parts of Guinea as well as the bordering countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau, and Senegal. Dan and Michelle are also part of the Church Liaison Team, partnering with local churches in urban areas, to raise mission awareness.
