 Now, not every church body prepares its pastors in the same way, and not every pastor has to go through a four-year graduate degree program, but that's what our tradition has done, and it works well enough. There were 94 men our seminary sent out that year to be pastors. Recently, a classmate of ours looked us all up and sent us a big group email, which was followed by several reply-alls and updates of some of what has happened in the last 14 years.