Jordan Family Church (JFC) launched in January 2022. Earlier intentions would have had us  start sooner, but COVID restrictions and uncertainty delayed our launch. Our initial team  consisted of 18 adults and a significant number of children and teens from those families. While  not “uncountable,” the number of children involved at our inception revealed much about what  our mission in Jordan would become. 

Each of our launch families and singles was sent from Bethany Church in Bloomington, MN.  Some of us had been part of that church for over 20 years, while others were more recent  members. Many of our launch team had already settled in the south metro, in or around Jordan.  Geography was certainly a factor in planting JFC, but even more so, we had a long-standing  sense—nearly 20 years—of God’s calling to plant a church in Jordan. 

Ken and Laura had been involved at Bethany since 1999, serving as youth pastors, associate  pastor, and lead pastor between then and 2016. Ken later ventured into entrepreneurship with an  eye toward planting a church in Jordan, and the couple eventually moved to Jordan in 2013 while  continuing to serve Bethany Church. Bethany joyfully sent us out with an initial financial gift,  which—along with the generosity of many others—gave us a strong financial foundation. This  was further supported by Ken’s entrepreneurial work, allowing him to serve the church without  compensation. While that was a wise strategy for launching, his limited time for pastoral  responsibilities has led us, in our third year, to seek a pastor who can serve JFC more fully and  be compensated for his time. 

Our earliest services included our launch team as well as several incredible families—seemingly  hand-picked by God—who remain vibrant, core members of our JFC family today. We meet  Sunday mornings in the local middle school and have grown consistently, with attendance  ranging between 110 and 130 each week. True to our beginnings, we continue to have a lively  and bustling group of children and youth. 

When we launched, we began a Wednesday night youth program that initially served mostly our  own children. Since then, it has grown to consistently serve over 100 children and youth each  week. Our Wednesday program includes a family meal, followed by junior and senior high  ministries and a children’s Bible class. 

JFC truly is a family. We seek to represent Jesus Christ in our love for one another and in our  commitment to the gospel. We aim to lead and serve JFC as a husband would lead and serve his  family—in reverence and fear of God. We eat together often. We generously support  missionaries sharing the Good News around the world. We pray and strive to honor God in all  we do. 

We are led by elders who seek to exemplify the qualities described in the New Testament for  those called to serve the church. We make significant decisions together, in agreement. Our  pastoral staff oversees various ministries in part-time capacities. Each pastor is either employed  elsewhere or, in the case of our children’s pastor, serves her young family full-time. Many  dedicated volunteers also make it possible for JFC to serve others in many ways.

Internal 

Our mission is “Living for the age to come together in Jordan.” We aim to measure success and  fruitfulness as God does—by what will be evident in the age to come, more than in this one. We  value eternal outcomes over temporal ones. Our calling is to “serve those God entrusts to us by  teaching them to obey all that Jesus commanded.”