The Beginnings of Greyfriars Logic
In 2011, the Bridge Tutorials began as a once-a-week tutorial for 7th and 8th graders, growing out of two informal family co-ops. Then in 2013, the Bridge expanded to include 6th grade.
Our program offers History (including Geography and Church History), Literature and Aesthetics, Writing (Grammar and Diagramming), Latin, Math, and Science classes--all taught from a Christian worldview. Each class has a weekly syllabus that shows what is covered in class and what should be done at home. To better follow the classical model, we are set up so that all Logic students study the same time period in History and Literature with Aesthetics being integrated into this time period.
From inception, our program has had informal ties to Greyfriars Classical Academy (GCA), both in personnel and in vision. In the 2015-16 school year, Bridge Tutorials more formally linked arms with GCA and with our "sister" organization, 7Pillars Tutorials (K-5), to become Greyfriars Classical Tutorials. We trust that this change will better enable us to assist Christian homeschooling families.
Our program offers History (including Geography and Church History), Literature and Aesthetics, Writing (Grammar and Diagramming), Latin, Math, and Science classes--all taught from a Christian worldview. Each class has a weekly syllabus that shows what is covered in class and what should be done at home. To better follow the classical model, we are set up so that all Logic students study the same time period in History and Literature with Aesthetics being integrated into this time period.
From inception, our program has had informal ties to Greyfriars Classical Academy (GCA), both in personnel and in vision. In the 2015-16 school year, Bridge Tutorials more formally linked arms with GCA and with our "sister" organization, 7Pillars Tutorials (K-5), to become Greyfriars Classical Tutorials. We trust that this change will better enable us to assist Christian homeschooling families.
Staff & Tutors
Jennifer Milvain
Director; 8th math
Jennifer Milvain, a native of Tennessee, earned a Bachelor of Business specializing in Accounting from Charles Sturt University in Australia. Jennifer and Nigel have three children, who all attended Greyfriars for middle school and high school. Since 2008, Jennifer has taught in this community. She has a passion for Christ and desires to teach middle school students to see the beauty of God at work through their studies. The Milvains are members at Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, where Jennifer serves in Children's Ministry.
Director; 8th math
Jennifer Milvain, a native of Tennessee, earned a Bachelor of Business specializing in Accounting from Charles Sturt University in Australia. Jennifer and Nigel have three children, who all attended Greyfriars for middle school and high school. Since 2008, Jennifer has taught in this community. She has a passion for Christ and desires to teach middle school students to see the beauty of God at work through their studies. The Milvains are members at Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, where Jennifer serves in Children's Ministry.
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Cassie Browning
7th Writing Cassie graduated from Mississippi College with a BA in English and education. After teaching two years of seventh grade language arts in the Atlanta area, she moved to North Carolina and taught five more years in the public school system. After marrying her husband Matt in 2011, she had her first opportunity to teach in the Greyfriars community in 2012. That class was still seventh grade writing and literature, but it became one of her favorites because she was able to teach fully from a Christian perspective. Now with two children in the grammar program at Greyfriars, and currently teaching the G3-G5 art classes (since 2016), she is excited to teach literary analysis once again. And, of course, she lived happily ever after. |
Joby Fowler
Bible Survey Joby is a native of Douglasville, GA, and grew up in the Presbyterian Church. Pastor Fowler is ever thankful for the Lord’s grace in his life, having been a benefactor of not only godly parents, but also godly pastors, mentors, and theological professors, who labored to instill a deep desire for the growth of the Church, through the proclamation of God’s Word. Joby was ordained in 2011 and became at that time the organizing pastor of Reformation Orthodox Presbyterian Church and he continues as pastor there to this day. He was previously an intern at Resurrection OPC here in Matthews during his time as a student at Reformed Theology Seminary, from which he graduated in 2015. His college degree was from Georgia Tech. After finishing his bachelor of science degree, he spent 2003-2005 doing evangelism and discipleship in China with Campus Crusade for Christ. He is married to Carla and they have six children ranging in age from 7 to 20. |
Catie Jackson
8th Latin Catie enjoys beautiful music, art, and literature, and she has a very fond spot for Latin. She grew up near Augusta, Georgia, and studied Latin throughout high school. After completing her music degrees from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University (BM), the University of South Carolina (MM) and the University of Iowa (DMA), she resumed her Latin studies when her oldest child was three. She began with a course in Wheelock’s Latin from her friend, Dr. David Noe, formerly a Latin and Classics professor at Calvin College, and has continued taking Latin courses during the summer months. Catie loves to teach and hopes to instill a love of Latin in her children and in her students. Besides teaching Latin, Catie has a small private violin studio and assists with the music ministry at her church, Ballantyne Presbyterian, ARP. Catie and her husband, Kenneth, have seven children who range in age from 6 to 20 years old. One of her children will be attending Greyfriars Tutorials for 8th grade. |
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Allie Kohlbusch
Monday Art |
Lori Lawing
Aesthetics Lori graduated from Chapel Hill with a degree in public speaking. She competed in oral performance of literature on UNC’s traveling speech team. Married to Morrie Lawing, pastor of Christ Church, ARP, in Denver, NC, they educated their five children at home until entering high school. All of their children are graduates of Greyfriars Classical Academy where she has taught aesthetics for over a decade. Previously, she taught Shakespeare to groups of up to 30 children (ages 3-15) and has written eight condensed scripts of Shakespeare’s plays for her classes’ annual productions. She currently teaches homeschool classes for all ages in the Lake Norman area as well as teaching at Greyfriars. Mrs. Lawing has a passion for teaching, especially the beauty of aesthetics. |
Barbara Lockman
8th Literature Barbara worked as a freelance writer in Charlotte for more than 30 years, contributing to a wide variety of publications as well as authoring three books of local historical interest. A graduate of Lynchburg College (Virginia) with a BA in English, she has taught literature and writing at Resurrection Christian School, United Faith Christian Academy, and has served as a Greyfriars Logic tutor for the past seven years. She also teaches American History and Literature at Greyfriars Classical Academy. Mrs. Lockman is passionate about great literature and has a home library of more than 1,000 books. She and her husband Jim, a commercial photographer, have an adult daughter, Arden, and enjoy the love and antics of their five grandchildren. They attend Resurrection (formerly Lutheran) Church in Charlotte. |
Cade McDonald
6th & 7th Latin, 7th History, 8th Writing Cade is a seventh generation Texan who grew up in Austin, TX. He attended Wheaton College in Illinois, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. At Wheaton, he met his wife Tess (a native Pennsylvanian). Cade and Tess got married in the summer of 2018 and then moved to Charlotte, NC in order to pursue a Master of Divinity at Reformed Theological Seminary, where he is currently a student. Cade and Tess are members at Oakhurst Baptist Church here in Charlotte, where Cade serves as a ministry intern. Cade and Tess don’t have enough book shelves for all of their books, enjoy drinking copious amounts of coffee, and love playing sports of all kinds! Cade is excited to join the Greyfriars family. |
Leah Mancini
7th Math, 6/7/8 Science Leah was raised by missionary parents in Mexico City, Mexico. She lived in Mexico for 13 years before moving to Istanbul, Turkey, where she spent her 4 years of high school. She attended Liberty University and graduated with a B.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology. Her passion for teaching science began in college, and she finds so much joy in helping others learn about God through developing a deeper understanding of His creation. During her time at Liberty she met her husband, Jeremy. Jeremy and Leah are beginning their ministry together here in Charlotte at a new church plant, Redeemer Church. Jeremy has begun his seminary training with plans to continue in a life of full-time Gospel ministry with Leah. |
Ashley Mink
6th History Ashley grew up in Greensboro, NC and loved school and books from the start. At the University of Virginia, where history abounds, she was a History major and Young Life volunteer leader for four years. After a couple of years working on Capitol Hill, she moved to Charlotte where she worked in human resources, in retail, at RTS, and with Young Life, which is how she met her husband, Jason. They’ve been married for 20 years and have three great kids. The family attends Uptown Church, where Ashley serves in children’s ministry. Ashley homeschooled her kids for seven years and this will be her sixth year as a tutor at GCT Logic, where she loves to get students excited about history. |
Beverley Oates
8th Writing, 8th History Beverley grew up right here in Charlotte. She graduated with a degree in education from Bryan College in Dayton, TN. She loves educating students and encouraging parents! She has been teaching off and on for 30 plus years. She has taught in the public, private, and homeschool setting. She has taught many grades preschool thru high school and many subjects from Latin to formal debate, from history to writing and everything in between. Currently she has a small business where she administers the Woodcock Johnson, consults and counsels parents concerning their child’s education, and tutors struggling students in all subjects. She has 4 children of her own ages 16-25 and is expecting her first grandbaby any minute! She is very excited to teach history and writing to the students at Greyfriars! |
Carriel Posvar
Administrative Assistant Carriel grew up in Gainesville, Fl. and around Indiana which is where she and her husband, Matthew, of 22 years met as high schoolers and were married in 1999. Moving to Charlotte and with a short education in Office Administrations and a love for children, she worked in Charlotte as both an administrator and nanny. She and their daughter have been part of the GCT school community since 2012. This is Carriel’s eighth year teaching Christian classical style education. She also provides assistance to both Grammar and Logic Directors. The family attends Redeemer Presbyterian Church (the daughter congregation of Resurrection OPC). |
Amber Snapp
7th Literature, 7th Writing Amber is a homeschool graduate who attended King College in Bristol, TN. She and Samuel married in 1999 and they lived in IN, SC, and two different cities in NC before settling in Charlotte. They adopted three wonderful sons. All three were homeschooled while she tutored Classical Conversations, 7Pillars, and Greyfriars Tutorials over the last twelve years. She tutors in both the Grammar and Logic program. |
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Paige Suclupe
Intro to Latin, 6th Math Paige grew up on a farm in Cabarrus County. She received a bachelor’s degree from UNC-Chapel Hill and shortly after began working at Alexander Children’s Center where she met her husband, Roger. She continued her education at UNC-Charlotte, earning a master’s degree in Special Education with a concentration in learning disabilities. She taught children with special needs for six years before staying home after the birth of her daughter. While homeschooling her children, she has also tutored children with learning disabilities. She has three children. She and her family are members of Grace Church (PCA) in Harrisburg. This is her third year teaching at GCT Logic. |
Donna Wilson
6th Literature, 6th Writing Donna grew up in Louisiana, graduated from Louisiana Tech University with a degree in Elementary Education and a minor in English. She earned a masters degree in Special Education K-12 from Chapman University. Donna married William, and they spent 10 years church planting in the Philippines and in Belgium. Later they worked with International Students, Inc. at the University of Arizona for 23 years until her husband passed away. She has taught in elementary school, middle school, and high school. Donna also homeschooled her children and advised homeschool parents. Her teaching experience spans 25 years, the last 10 years in special education K-10. In 2019, Donna moved to Charlotte to be near her family. She has three children and 13 grandchildren. |