Pastor Dale graduated from Trinity Baptist College in 1992 and served as a church planter, Christian School administrator, and Associate Pastor before coming to Sonshine in 1999. While at Sonshine he handled youth, senior adult, and outreach ministries along with his wife Cynzia who was the office manager and bookkeeper

The Hardy’s left Sonshine in 2008 to pastor Lighthouse Baptist Church in Lake Mary, Florida, and returned to Sonshine in 2014. He was called as Senior Pastor in May of 2017 upon the retirement of Pastor Bill Bales.

Pastor Hardy has a passion to reach the lost and engage with the community. He truly believes that “We reach the world through the building of relationships.”