Faculty

Dallas B. Dykes, BA, MDiv, BCCC

Manager of Pastoral Care, CPE Supervisor/Educator

Dallas Dykes has served on the Pastoral Care staff at Baton Rouge General since 2017, initially as a Staff Chaplain. He was named Manager of Pastoral Care in May 2022. Chaplain Dykes was credentialed as a board-certified Clinical Chaplain/Pastoral Counselor and started the CPE Supervisor-In-Training Program with CPSP in 2019 and was granted reciprocity as a board-certified Clinical Chaplain and CPE Supervisory Candidate with CPEI in 2020. He was affirmed as a CPE Supervisor/Educator with CPEI in December 2022. Chaplain Dykes’ ministry experience includes tenures as a hospice chaplain/bereavement counselor and a decade serving in pastoral roles on church staffs. He completed four units of CPSP Clinical Pastoral Education at Baton Rouge General and has a Bachelors in English from Louisiana State University and a Master of Divinity with Specialization in Christian Education from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Chaplain Dykes is endorsed by the North American Mission Board.

Joseph E. Mellein, BA, MTh, BCCC

Staff Chaplain, CPE Supervisor/Educator

Joseph Mellein began his BRG tenure as a Staff Chaplain and CPE Supervisory Candidate in May 2022, following his completion of six Residency units of CPEI Clinical Pastoral Education at Baton Rouge General. He was credentialed as a board-certified Clinical Chaplain with CPEI in September 2022, and was affirmed as a CPE Supervisor/Educator with CPEI in November 2023. Chaplain Mellein spent his formative years in southern California, which offered him an awareness of and appreciation for ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity. His experience also includes service as a hospice chaplain and on-call hospital chaplain and three years of mission and teaching ministry in northern India. Chaplain Mellein is endorsed by the Archangel Gabriel Antiochian Orthodox Church.