Pastor Jack is an independent nondenominational minister and pastor of Our Fellowship and Joining Hands Ministry. Contact Pastor Jack at 585-324-0230 or by email.
In the summer of 1985 Pastor Jack began his ministry service with Calvary Chapel, serving in various pastoral positions, including children's pastor, assistant pastor, and senior pastor.
Pastor Jack has served with congregations in the Presbyterian, Free Methodist, Baptist, and Evangelical Free denominations, as well as independent ministries in the Rochester, New York area. Positions he held included church planter, family and pastoral care provider, home school coordinator, small group coordinator, Christian educational director, marriage counselor, special event and wedding coordinator, creative ministry director, youth minister, children's minister, and senior pastor.
In 2001 Pastor Jack became disillusioned by the impersonal approach of big business churches. He decided to retire from service to large, denominational churches and start a different kind of ministry. He founded Joining Hands, a nondenominational and independent Christian ministry in Rochester, NY in order to offer an alternative to the legalistic, commercial church. This allows Pastor Jack to pursue his primary calling - to offer his services to the community, and to provide pastoral care and ministerial services to those who reject or were rejected by the corporate church.
Joining Hands is an independently chartered free church promoting informal, relational Christianity and providing ministry services to those without church affiliation. Along with his work in the church, Pastor Jack also serves the community as a member of the Clergy Response Team of the Rochester Police Department and the Monroe County Sheriff.
Pastor Jack's past service includes faculty member of Rochester Institute of Christian Education, board member and trainer with Child Evangelism Fellowship, counselor with Youth Development International, volunteer manager with Compassion International, and ministry workshop provider for many Christian organizations. He has served on crisis intervention teams in Monroe, Genesee, and Livingston counties.
In addition he has served as an instructor for the Greater Rochester Red Cross and has provided training for family and group childcare providers in New York State. He has also worked in first level advisory and taught transitional classes at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY. Several area colleges and universities have utilized his services as a public speaker, and he is referred by university chapels in the Rochester area.
Pastor Jack has completed the Monroe County Sheriff's Clergy Academy Program. In addition he has received training from the Western NY Association of Chiefs of Police, the Middle Atlantic-Great Lakes Organized Crime Law Enforcement Network, the East Coast Gang Investigation Association, and the US Attorney General's Office. Currently Pastor Jack is part of the Rochester Police Department's Clergy Response Team.
Pastor Jack and his wife Lorraine make their home in Rochester, NY.
