Willow Creek Friends Church

​Jared Warner is a pastor or recorded minister in the Evangelical Friends Church Mid America Yearly Meeting. To give a short introduction to the EFC-MA, it is a group of evangelical minded Friends in the Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Colorado. EFC-MA is also a part of the larger group called Evangelical Friends International, which as the name implies is an international group of Evangelical Friends. For many outside of the Friends or Quaker traditions you may ask what a recorded minister is: the short answer is that one demonstrates gifts of ministry that our Yearly Meeting has recorded in their minutes. To translate this into other terms you might consider such a person an ordained pastor, but Friends believe that God ordains and mankind can only record what  has already been done. More about Jared: he has a degree in crop science from Fort Hays State University, and a masters degree in Christian ministry from Friends University.