Street, and with his own money, began to build a chapel. This chapel was 50 ft by 25 ft, with a ceiling that was 16 ft high. On August 22, 1880, at 68, he conducted the first service to be held in a church on Colorado's Western Slope.

In 1870, Dyer married Lucinda Rankin, a widow who lived near Castle Rock. At age 73, he and Lucinda moved to Denver where he wrote and published