Our Pastoral Staff

JanElle Hoffman

Lead pastor

JanElle Hoffman and her husband Todd and family moved to the Cortez area in 2017 and quickly found the Cortez Church of the Nazarene to be family. Todd and JanElle are graduates of Eastern Nazarene College and have served as short term missionaries and in camp ministry.

Being a wife and mother, ministry has looked different in the various seasons of JanElle's life - children’s ministry, Christian education, and pulpit supply, to name a few. She served Cortez Church of the Nazarene as a volunteer associate minister to children and families 2019-2022. Her background is education, teaching for 15 years in-person or online.

After Pastor Ian resigned to accept the call to ministry at Montezuma County Hospice, JanElle accepted the call as pastor at Cortez Church of the Nazarene. Though “senior pastor” was not originally part of her plan, she is embracing the process (including pursuing a course of study toward ordination) and is grateful to serve her church family and community in this new capacity.

Ian Hyde

Youth Pastor

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 continues to serve as youth pastor at Cortez Church of the Nazarene.

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 and his wife, Marcia, have five children: Samson, Adelynn, Conan, Rosalynn, and Gwedolynn. Ian loves wrestling with the tough questions of life and faith over coffee, and getting hopelessly lost in the mountains.