Our Pastors and Elders
Tyler Hendley: Lead Pastor
Pastor Tyler Hendley has a heart for Christ the Risen Lord, and rural Missouri. He
grew up in southeast Missouri, on his family’s Angus beef farm, one of the oldest
family farms in the state. A job as a corporate jet mechanic took him to St. Louis,
which is also where God called him to seminary, and more specifically, rural church
planting. H
Pastor Tyler Hendley has a heart for Christ the Risen Lord, and rural Missouri. He
grew up in southeast Missouri, on his family’s Angus beef farm, one of the oldest
family farms in the state. A job as a corporate jet mechanic took him to St. Louis,
which is also where God called him to seminary, and more specifically, rural church
planting. He graduated from Covenant Seminary in 2017, which is also where he met Reverend Allan Harmening.
They bonded over their call to ministry in a small-town setting, as well as their shared background in agriculture, as Allan is a former veterinarian. After graduating seminary, Tyler worked for a homeless men’s shelter, and as a church planting apprentice and Ruling Elder at Midtown Church in downtown St. Louis. In preparation for moving to Farmington and joining Grace Fellowship PCA, Tyler and his wife, Ashley, attended the PCA’s Church Planting Assessment in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Lord confirmed their call to full-time church planting ministry, and they began the process of support-raising and preparing to move from St. Louis to Farmington.
The Hendley family moved to Farmington in early 2021, with Tyler completing his
ordination several months later. Using his outgoing personality and ability to turn
every stranger into a friend, his focus is on pastoral care and community outreach.
Tyler is not in any way content with a pacifistic Christian sub-subculture, but
desires for Christ kingship to be pre-eminent everywhere.