REV. jEROMIE RAND
rector (pastor)

rector@christourhopeanglican.org

Jeromie has loved Jesus since he was a small child, but he fell in love with the Church while attending college at Clemson University. His time at a small non-denominational church there had a significant influence on his ideas of what it means to be the church and to work as a pastor. After finishing a Master's degree in computer engineering and working as a software developer for a few years, Jeromie’s passion for the church led him back to school at Denver Seminary. On their first Sunday in Denver, Jeromie and his wife visited an Anglican church and felt immediately at home. It is within the Anglican church that he discerned a call to ordained ministry, though he spent several years as a community college faculty member before feeling God’s call to full-time pastoral work.

Jeromie moved to Fort Collins in 2020 to serve as rector of Christ Our Hope. He loves the city and the people whom God has called him to serve. He enjoys stories of all sorts – he’s never far from a book – and sees part of his calling as a pastor to be a holy storyteller, telling over and over again the story of what God has done for us in Christ and how this good news changes everything. He enjoys talking about life and theology over a good cup of coffee, walking in his neighborhood or in the mountains, challenging his mind with a good board game, and spending time with his wife Liz and two daughters, Rebekah and Annelise.

christine sturges
PARISH administrator

admin@christourhopeanglican.org

Christine has been a member of Christ Our Hope for over 15 years. She grew up in Connecticut and was raised in the Congregational Church. She moved to Colorado after graduate school and found a small church where she developed a great fondness for the Anglican tradition and grew in her love of Jesus. She lived in a Christian Community for 8 years and began learning from experience to live a life of faith while working full-time as an IT manager at HP.

Early on she loved music, singing in the choir as a child and later as an adult. Then in high school and college, she discovered the joys of acting on the stage. Over the years, she participated in several community theatre productions, but her long-standing passion is bringing the scriptures to life through our group dramatizations at church. She also enjoys reading and is a frequent visitor to the library. During the spring, summer and fall, you will frequently see her in her yard, encouraging the flowers and vegetables to blossom, and removing weeds with a methodical tenacity.

nathan johnson
music Leader

music@christourhopeanglican.org

Nathan has been attending Christ Our Hope since 2013 and on staff since 2016. Baptized and raised in the Lutheran church, he found Anglicanism shortly after moving to Colorado in 2012. Anglican worship gradually drew Nathan deeper into a love for the beauty and depth of liturgy, giving him new eyes for the “rhythms of grace” he had known all his life in the Lutheran church. He’s been playing music since childhood, and is self-taught on every instrument in his repertoire - currently guitar, drums, bass, baritone ukulele, and mandolin. Music ministry has ignited his enthusiasm for the many voices that have contributed to the anthology of praise throughout the ages. This, coupled with his eclectic set of musical tastes ranging from Blitzen Trapper to Beethoven, has integrated well with the ancient-future ethos of worship at Christ Our Hope.

Nathan works bi-vocationally in digital marketing with an alter ego as a singer-songwriter. He can otherwise be found getting up to all kinds of nonsense like salsa or contra dancing, taking way too long to cook elaborate meals, illustrating his own line of greeting cards, trying to grow vegetables, and buying books he’ll read eventually.