Jack Dyer: KINGDOM PURPOSE
I had heard of Jack Dyer and his missions work in Honduras from many people at Healing Place Church sometime around 2003 - 2004. When I was an intern with Healing Place School of Ministry in 2007, he came and spoke at one of our Missions Classes as a Guest Speaker.
He spoke with great conviction. As he shared how God called him out of his 'Babylon,' which for him, was his successful engineering business in Baton Rouge, you can tell that he had a Holy Spirit encounter that changed the direction of his life and that he didn't regret his shift in purpose.
His testimony was one of many stories that influenced both Brandi and I to walk away from our careers and answer the call to full time ministry and eventually the mission field. We loved the fact that he brought the gifts, talents, education and experience from his career into his ministry. We loved the fact that he continued to use the tools God gave him before his conversion to Christianity. He didn't discard them, he just found a new purpose. He found a Kingdom Purpose to his past before Christ.
I remember after hearing his testimony, I thought to myself, "It's not impossible to walk away from what I'm doing. It's not impossible to answer God's call." It was a seed that was sown. One of many that led to our family transitioning to serve at HPC Honduras.
Often I would see Papa Jack in service and I would go talk to him or he would stop by in the Pastoral Care Trailers to visit Br. Pete Wunstel and I'd catch up with him. I loved hearing about how God saved him and redeemed him. Or how God called him out of his Babylon and into ministry and how he used his pilot's license to fly missionaries around North and South America.
I loved hearing how he believed that God was simply unreasonable about the things He did and the things He asked us to do. I loved hearing how he stayed committed to obedience through all the trials he faced. For example, after answering the call to Honduras, God, through Hurricane Mitch moved him to India and then back to Honduras.
Because of Jack Dyer's testimony, we were encouraged to exchange our vocation, call and purpose to a Kingdom Purpose.