Pastor Ian originally hails from Marshalltown, Iowa having been saved and baptized when he was seven years old. In college, he was active in the Navigators and Frontiers Missions. While deployed to Afghanistan with the U.S. Army in 2013, Ian discerned his call to full-time ministry. He has since served as a hospice chaplain in Colorado Springs, and as an associate pastor in La Junta, CO before coming to Cortez where he served as lead pastor until spring 2022 when he accepted the call to minister full-time with Hospice of Montezuma County. He served as youth pastor at Cortez Church of the Nazarene before coming to Montrose.

Ian has an A.A.S. in Flight Operations (Cochise College), a B.A. in Political Science (University of Northern Iowa) and an MDiv (Fuller Theological Seminary). Ian loves wrestling with the tough questions of life and faith over coffee, and getting hopelessly lost in the mountains.

We are blessed to have Jocelyn Cook serving as our Office Administrator. Jocelyn has a bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in communications from Olivet Nazarene University. She keeps our office running and prepared to serve our community each week.