Frontier Alliance International President Resigns
Board cites Dalton Thomas Lifsey’s sexual infidelities in last decade
Frontier Alliance International announced that its founder and president resigned Nov. 20 citing “burdens” related to his marriage and sexual infidelity.
Dalton Thomas Lifsey
“We must inform you that at the request of our Board of Directors, our Founder and President Dalton Thomas Lifsey tendered his unconditional resignation from his leadership role within our organization,” said a statement from the FAI board posted prominently on the ministry’s website and distributed via X, formerly Twitter.
The resignation means Lifsey will have “no possibility of…being restored to a leadership or ministry role” in the ministry he founded in 2011.
The board said, “Dalton openly shared the burdens he has faced over the past few years, including difficulties within his marriage, which have led to this decision. Since tendering his resignation, Dalton has confessed infidelity with a woman who is not a team member of our ministry.”
This isn’t the first time Lifsey has confessed to infidelity. The board acknowledged “that Dalton was engaged in an adulterous relationship with a team member of FAI a decade ago.”
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FAI’s board says it plans to get things right this time and is in the early stages of hiring a third-party organization to conduct an investigation. “We believe pursuing their external and experienced perspective is one of the earliest steps to discern the path forward for us as an organization that honors our values and convictions, foremost of which is the Lordship of Jesus Christ,” the statement reads.
“We are fully committed to subjecting ourselves to a comprehensive audit of past events, with the primary goal of ensuring that any victim or former team members of the ministry receive the care, support, and ultimately the closure that they deserve.”
FAI is one of the lowest rated ministries in the MinistryWatch 1000 database. It has zero stars and a “D” transparency grade in the MinistryWatch database, and a low donor confidence score of 41. FAI is not a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability. The ministry had $5 million in revenue in 2021 and spent $1.3 million of that on employee salaries and benefits.
FAI ’s methods served as a model for Global Catalytic Ministries, another ministry founded in 2011 by people who had been affiliated with FAI.
As we reported in March, GCM has long shielded its work behind an unnecessarily thick veil of secrecy that covers both its international and U.S. operations.
GCM claims it is “a leader in disciple-making across the Middle East,” but the organization’s leaders have a habit of making misleading and false claims about both its financial efficiency and the scope of its work.
Both ministries also use the same pair of movies to promote their work: “Sheep Among Wolves 1” and “Sheep Among Wolves 2.” The films show the daring international exploits of Joel Richardson, FAI’s board chairman, and Dalton Thomas Lifsey, who is listed in the film credits as Dalton Thomas.
Mike Patino, GCM’s CEO, also serves on the board of FAI.
