Pastor of Senior Adults: Jerry Cole

Pastor Jerry has served in ministry for a total of 40 years. He has been pastoring Nazarene churches for 25 years. He was affiliated with the Tri-Cities Chaplaincy for 10 years as full-time Clinical Pastoral Education student then as Hospice Chaplain and Bereavement Care coordinator.

Jerry graduated from Canadian Nazarene College and Nazarene Theological Seminary. He has completed 11 hours of counselor training at Central Washington University. He was ordained in 1957 and was endorsed by the Church of the Nazarene as a Health Care chaplain in 1986.

Jerry and his wife, Shirley, have five children, Cynthia Thompson, Loren and Linda Cole, Cynthia and Michelle Hodgdon and 2 grandchildren Marielle and Michael Thompson.