Jack Hager

Born into a military family, Jack traveled extensively during his childhood and youth. Graduating from high

school in California, Jack forsook scholarships and enlisted in the Army for four years. Following tours of

duty in Korea, Germany, and Vietnam, Jack was honorably discharged.

Disenchanted and heavily involved in alcohol and other drugs, Jack spent the next few months wandering

in the Marshall and Hawaiian Islands. Returning to the West Coast he began a short career of criminal

activity.

The “party” ended with arrest in 1973, followed by a prison sentence. Shortly after incarceration, Jack

read a book and for the first time in his 26-years was confronted with the claims of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Responding to the Gospel, Jack committed his life to Christ in 1974.

Parole was followed by schooling at Christ Unlimited Bible Institute in Kansas City, where Jack was

elected class president. Upon graduation Jack served as a Staff Evangelist with Kansas City Youth For

Christ. Several years of almost constant travel followed, including well over 1,400 school assembly

programs challenging young people to think about choices and the results of those choices. The theme of

his school program is personal responsibility. He considers “It’s not my fault” to be an obscenity.

Jack has preached in over 200 prisons and jails, and speaks at 5 – 7 youth and family camps each

summer.

Jack was on staff of Kansas City Youth For Christ from 1978 to 1986; and then with Headwaters Christian

Youth in Rhinelander, Wi from 1986 to 1988.

Beginning in 1988 Jack served as Ministry Liaison for Family Life Ministries in Bath, New York. He hosted

a live, call-in radio program over the Family Life Network for eight years, and served as a researcher for

the Network. At Family Life he directed the Bible Quizzing program, edited a bimonthly newspaper, “The

Family Life Journal,” with a host of other duties. Over the years Jack has made time to interim-pastor at

four churches.Additionally, he helped birth a church and was its teaching elder until a full-time pastor was called.

Jack has served as “Ministry Liaison” with Midland Ministries, headquartered in St Joseph, Mo, since July

of 2008. He also serves as a volunteer chaplain at the Western Correctional Facility, St Joseph and

Crossroads Prison in Cameron. He also travels with Bill Glass “Behind the Walls” ministry.

Jack is married to Jane, and they have three sons and one daughter. The youngest two children were

adopted at birth. Army brat, alcoholic, drug user, dealer, vet, ex-con…all these and more have been

descriptive of Jack Hager; but the one that is current, and the one he prefers, is “new creation in Christ.”