MINISTRY FOCUS

Jerri recently joined the Headquarters Communications Team as their Communications Coordinator. This creative and multifaceted role includes writing, editing, research, and design. Jerri is excited about researching and developing collaborative projects between Headquarters and field missionaries. She will help tell the stories of how the gospel interacts with and transforms the lives of military people in their communities.

Jerri’s adventure of sharing the gospel and her life with the military began in 1984. Her assignments have included singing in overseas evangelistic concerts, offering discipleship for military personnel and teens, leading chapel youth ministry, shepherding Cadence Interns, serving as an admin assistant in the Europe field office, co-pioneering the Cadence Alumni department at Headquarters, serving on the Cadence Board of Directors, hospitality house adult ministry for Airmen and Guardians, and PWOC involvement and mentorship of military women and spouses.

FAITH

Jerri grew up in a small Mennonite settlement surrounded by Kansas wheat fields. She heard of Jesus in her younger years but never imagined that He would notice her. When she was 15, God used difficult circumstances to transplant Jerri into a small boarding school community near her grandparents. One weekend, her grandpa asked Jerri if she was a Christian, and she said, “I don’t understand the question . . . I’m a Mennonite!” Sitting with her grandpa at his kitchen table, he had her read verses out loud from the Gospel of John. Jerri’s eyes opened wide to see how Jesus not only noticed her but also deeply loved her. It was a wonderful day when Jerri gave her life to her loving Savior, Jesus!

FAMILY

In 2024, Jerri lost her sister-in-law, mother, and father. She is thankful for her many relationships with her sister, brothers, nieces, nephews, their spouses, grandnieces, and grandnephews. They are so precious! God has also provided Jerri with deep friends who invite her into their lives and families. These relationships help her grasp how wide and long and high and deep the love of Jesus is.