The Rev. Jason Ko, pastor of Community Presbyterian Church of La Mirada, Calif., will visit campus on the week of March 11 as part of the University of the Ozarks’ Struthers Visiting Pastoral Study Leave Program. He will lead the University’s weekly Chapel Service at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 12.
Born in South Korea, Ko emigrated to the United States at the age of 5 in 1979 and grew up as an 80s child, riding bikes, being a latch-key kid, and playing Little League baseball. He attended Rutgers University School of Business and graduated with a finance degree and worked as a finance analyst for three years until the Lord called him to full-time ministry.
He was admitted to Princeton Theological Seminary in 1999 and graduated in 2002. He served as a youth pastor for a total of nine years in two Korean churches prior to the current call at Community Presbyterian Church of La Mirada.
A resident of Los Angeles County, he is married to Cathy Ko and together they have three young adult children, Michelle, Jaimie, and Ethan.
Ko is on the board of trustees for the Presbyterian Foundation serving his second term. He is currently in his first year of a doctorate cohort, Youth, Family, and Culture, at Fuller Seminary.
The Pastoral Study Leave Program was established in 2005 by the late Rev. Dr. James R. Struthers of Stillwater, Okla., a long-time member of the University’s Board of Trustees. Struthers established the program to bring Presbyterian pastors to the U of O campus for personal and professional development.
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