Start a Hall in Your Community
You don't need a building. You need a vision for your place, a group of students, and the willingness to lead.
“Giving yourself to your place is honorable. Staying with intention — knowing a place, committing to it, forming the next generation in it — is one of the most ambitious moral undertakings available.”
Two ways to start the conversation.
Sketch Your Hall First
Answer four questions — place, sector, blueprint, programs — and see your Hall take shape before you talk to anyone. Takes 10–15 minutes.
Ideal if you're exploring the model or want to think through your vision before a conversation.
Sketch Your Hall →Talk to a Field Guide Directly
Skip the tool and schedule a consultation. A Field Guide will reach out within five business days to begin the conversation.
Ideal if you already know your place and your vision, and you're ready for a real conversation.
Request a Consultation →What Is a Christian Hall?
A Hall is a single educational community in a specific place. It partners with accredited universities to deliver degree programs through a tutorial-based model — small groups, local practitioners as tutors, and formation that doesn't require students to leave.
Think Oxford tutorial, not lecture hall. Community ownership, not franchise. Debt-free formation, not a mortgage on a 22-year-old's future.
Read more about the model →From eight university partners. Bachelor's, associate's, graduate, certificate, and apprenticeship.
Small cohorts led by local practitioners — not distant lecturers. Formation through sustained relationship.
Owned and run by the community it serves. No absentee landlord. No distant board.
CHI's model is built around affordability. Students are formed, not indebted.
Roles, not credentials.
Hall Founders come from every background. What they share is place — a community they know well and are committed to serving.
Pastors
Forming the next generation of ministers within their congregation and tradition.
Educators
Classical school leaders, homeschool co-op directors, veteran teachers.
Civic Leaders
Mayors, county officials, community organizers with a long-term vision for their place.
Businesspeople
Entrepreneurs who want to develop the local workforce they depend on.
Tradespeople
Master craftsmen who want to build a formal pipeline in their guild.
What Happens Next
From sketch to launch is typically three to six months. CHI does not require program selection, blueprint decisions, or complex setup work before the application — sketch first, decisions later.
Use the sketch tool to see what your Hall would look like — sectors, blueprint, programs. Takes 10–15 minutes. No commitment.
A Field Guide familiar with your region reviews your sketch and schedules a first conversation. They'll help you pressure-test the vision.
Formal application: place, community readiness, sector fit, philosophical alignment. CHI staff review within two weeks.
Program selection, Director training, tutor recruitment, site setup. Your Field Guide coordinates this phase.
Students enrolled. Tutorials running. Your Hall is live in the CHI directory.
What's Required of a Director
An honest list. CHI does not sugarcoat what it takes.
Request a Consultation
Tell us who you are and where you are. A Field Guide will follow up within 5 business days. No program selection, no blueprint decision required at this stage.
Start with the sketch.
Ten questions. Fifteen minutes. See what your Hall would look like before you commit to anything.
Sketch Your Hall →