Reverend Rob Dyer is Senior Pastor at a church in the St. Louis metro area. Rob has spent the last several years working in the areas of community missions and leadership development. He has worked at both the local church level as well at the regional level bringing churches, businesses, service agencies, and individuals together for addressing hunger, homeless, and health disparity issues. He has served on numerous community boards and participated in several church-community collaborations. Before becoming a pastor, Rob had a successful career as a software developer and manager working with the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. And many years before that, he was a NCAA college mascot. He is used to organizing large numbers of people for transformative experiences, even if it means putting on a tiger costume. Rob Dyer has been a speaker for conferences, employee seminars, volunteer appreciation events, community rallies, prayer breakfasts, and more. He has also taught many all-day training and motivational events. Within Ministry Architects, Rob particularly enjoys coaching pastors and guiding churches through times of transition and transformation. Rob is also one of the main developers of the Ministry Architects Volunteer Accelerator tool.
Most senior pastors are terrible at church staff development. I know. I’m one of those senior pastors. Too often new staff arrive and it feels like a relief. That pain point of a previously open position or that need for hiring additional staff has been handled. We sigh and celebrate. The new staff person hopefully…
“I will pay you $20 to clean the whole basement.” This is what it had come to. I was hoping that my lament about the disorder in our basement would eventually lead to one of my children volunteering. As the father of four, didn’t I know better? How could I be so delusional to think…
(A follow-up to “They’re Not Coming Back”) By Rev. Rob Dyer If you’re familiar with the Broadway musical Hamilton, then you’ve probably heard the song “You’ll Be Back.” Sung by the character of King George III, this song is a sharp shift in style and tone from the rest of the show and serves to…
Years ago, we used to tell ourselves that young adults who had strayed from the church would come back after they got married. When that didn’t happen, we shifted our hopes and proclaimed that they would return when they had kids. Some came back for baptisms, but the tsunami of baby-toting individuals never quite hit…
Pssst… I want to tell you a secret. It’s a secret I rediscovered early on during the chaos of 2020. It’s a secret that saved me. I mean it. As a senior pastor, consultant, and father of four children, I needed energy. More than I had. More than I could seem to find. Until I…