Hi!  I am Pastor Jerry Jaquess.  I grew up in Southern California where I attended the Ontario (California) Church of the Nazarene.  I was just another ordinary ornery kid in the church.  When I was in the sixth grade I was in Jr. Church watching slides from our teacher’s most recent trip to Africa when I heard God call me to full-time ministry.  At that time I thought He was calling me to the Mission Field.  I pursued that calling going to Haiti in my junior year of high school. 

After graduating High School I attended Northwest Nazarene College and continued to follow God’s call to missions later going to Costa Rica and Venezuela.  Just before graduation from N.N.C. I learned that I would be just two (non-essential) credits short of graduating.  I was discouraged and I moved back to Southern California where I worked for a major grocery company in San Diego for several months. In the mean time God continued to call.  Following a very bad car accident in Idaho, I moved back and took the two insignificant classes to finish my degree.  During this time I met my beautiful wife, Kim.

I went on to Seminary at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri.  Kim and I were married the next year.  I got involved in several ministries while I was at NTS.  God was shaping my call.  I worked in the inner city as well as big suburban churches.  By the time I was ready to graduate, God was calling me to a pastoral ministry.

Following graduation I took a church in Portales, New Mexico where I stayed for five and a half years.  My family and I moved to Colorado Springs, CO in 1997 to begin our ministry at Central. 

I like to incorporate humor in my sermons and try to make the Word relevant to everyone who attends.  Church should be the last place a person should be bored!  People should be inspired

in the presence of the Holy Spirit.  Believers should be spurred on and pre-believers should be introduced into a relationship with Jesus!

Now that you know a little bit about me I hope that you will stop by so that I can get to know you better.

Pastor Jerry