Classical Fellowship Albany, OR

Diane loves learning and supporting individuals' growth into their God-given potential. Married for 32 years, she is mother and teacher to four girls and three boys — and this summer welcomed two granddaughters. Her family is starting their 18th year in Classical Conversations, where she has served across Foundations, Essentials, Challenge III and IV, and various leadership support roles in Oregon.

She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Microbiology from Oregon State University with minors in Music and Chemistry. In 2025, she earned her M.A. in Classical Studies — Pedagogy from Southeastern University, with a thesis exploring the comparison of classical Christian and STEM models of science education. She has been a learner and a teacher — and she has been doing both for a long time.

As her adult children have built their own lives, Diane has seen firsthand the challenge of finding growth-minded, Christ-centered community after graduation. Her own children have had to work hard to find it. She knows what is missing — and she knows what Classical Fellowship can provide. She is still homeschooling her youngest, still in the middle of this journey herself, even as her oldest children are now raising families of their own.

Classical Fellowship in Albany, Oregon is a weekly, in-person community where young adults can keep practicing the classical arts alongside like-minded believers — whether they are pursuing higher education, work opportunities, or still discerning their next steps. Diane is building a community in Albany where that search for truth, goodness, and beauty continues — and where no graduate has to search for it alone.

"My desire is to inspire truth-seekers to engage God's world and God's Word with wonder
and awe — and to live lives trusting God with His plan and design for them."

— Diane Gray

Classical Fellowship Site Director — Albany, Oregon

What is Classical Fellowship? Classical Fellowship is a weekly, in-person community for Challenge IV graduates — a place where the classical conversation that began in Challenge continues, deepens, and takes root in whatever calling each student is pursuing after graduation.

When can my student start? Classical Fellowship is designed for students who have completed Challenge IV. When your graduate is ready, the path is waiting.

No matter what your student's calling, pairing SEU Online with Classical Fellowship means

that your Challenge IV graduate doesn't have to lose classical community and Christian

formation that has been built.

Classical Fellowship is where those fifteen skills keep being practiced — in community, with

a Site Director who knows the CC model, alongside peers who share the same classical,

Christ-centered foundation — while your graduate pursues wherever God is leading them.

You don't have to watch it stop at graduation. There is a place for it to keep going.

FALL 2026 REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

Sites: Phoenix, AZ | Albany, OR | Portland, OR | Melbourne, FL

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Coming Soon: Interactive Online Community*

*For students across the country who don't yet have a site within driving distance

Four seminars. Two years. Weekly community. Classical formation.

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