Supporting the Dyer Family in their Calling

The Dyer family is moving to Moscow, ID for three years, as Josiah attends Greyfriars Hall for the call to become a pastor, helping build the Kingdom of God through ordination and pastoring a church. As he attends Greyfriars Hall, a rigorous pastoral ministry training, he will also be teaching at Logos Classical Christian School, and will not have very much time to work in other vocations that pay better. As Christians brothers and sisters, we are called to support, encourage, pray for, and help stand-up Godly leaders and pastors to build His Kingdom. This is an incredible opportunity to show our support in a venture that has enormous and eternal pay-off.

A Little About The Goal and Name of Greyfriars Hall

It is a truism that if you don’t name it, someone else will. The intentions can be great, and the plans well laid, but if nothing is done, then people are going to call what you are doing a seminary. This makes it necessary to be somewhat aggressive in calling it something else, and to insist upon calling it that—perhaps to the point of being thought belligerent.

With this in mind we call this course of training a ministerial hall. Graduates of this hall do not receive a professional degree, or anything that sounds like a professional degree. The bureaucratic system which governs the granting of all such degrees is well—entrenched, and any attempt to compete with them while using their terminology is not likely to be blessed. A ministerial hall avoids the assumptions that govern the running of graduate schools. As a hall for study, there is no pretence of “professionalism.”

At the same time, the phrase ministerial hall does indicate a rigorous preparation for the ministry. An informal, casual, and undefined system of education simply will not do. If an apprentice for the ministry were simply to hang around the leadership of a church for several years, he would no doubt learn many valuable things, but mostly he would simply learn “how things are done around here.”

Those prospective ministers who graduate from this hall will receive a letter of commendation, stating that they have performed their work ably and well, and that the instructors and elders overseeing the training of this man have learned enough about him to be able to say he is qualified for the Christian ministry, in his character, history, and gifts.

Our ministerial hall will be called Greyfriars Hall. The Greyfriars church in Scotland was the place where the Solemn League and Covenant was first subscribed, and is a name that is important to everyone who loves the work of reformation.