Finally, he decided to pursue this call, trusting that if God willed it, seemingly impassable doors would open.
[3] After seminary graduation, Dodge served small churches in Massachusetts and North Dakota,[2] but he and his wife both felt called to foreign missions work.
The birth of their first child in January 1936 delayed their departure but, a few months later, they were in language school in Lisbon, Portugal.
His episcopal area included the colonial territories of Angola, Mozambique, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
Dodge's assistant Antonio Agostinho Neto went on to become the founder of the Movimento Popular de Libertacio de Angola MPLA, while Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who he helped sponsor for overseas study, became Prime Minister of Rhodesia.