Joe Jordan came to know Christ as Savior through the influence
of a Christian businessman who sent Joe to camp at Word
of Life Island in 1961. Joe responded to the Gospel under
the preaching of Jack Wyrtzen and God changed the life
of a troubled teenager into a young man with a burning
desire to be used of God to reach others.
Joe graduated in 1969 from Tennessee Temple University with
a bachelor of arts degree in Bible and Theology. He studied
at Philadelphia College of Bible and Lynchburg College. He
also holds an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Tennessee
Temple.
In 1969, Joe was accepted as a full-time missionary with
Word of Life. Later that year he left for Argentina, where
for the next 20 years, he founded and directed the ministry
of Word of Life.
God blessed and expanded the work in Argentina
to include a Bible Institute with some
560 students, camps in Buenos Aires and
Pichi Traful and Clubs throughout the country.
From Argentina, missionaries have been
sent out to almost every Spanish-speaking
country in Central and South America as
well as to Italy, Spain, Romania, Ukraine
and Portugal..
After serving five years as Senior Vice-President
of Ministries, in 1995 Joe was appointed
Director of Word of Life Fellowship International.
In August of 1999, Joe was appointed Executive
Director of the worldwide ministries of
Word of Life.
