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Joy Dodd is an ordained minister, the President and Co-Founder of Joy To The Nations International, and has served in full-time ministry and missions since 2008. She holds a Bachelor of Divinity degree and brings extensive experience in business leadership, nonprofit administration, church leadership, and discipleship-based ministry.

Joy began serving in ministry at the age of twelve, teaching Sunday School at Pomona Foursquare Church in Pomona, California. As a teenager, she served as a youth leader and helped establish a Christian club at Pomona High School, reflecting an early and enduring call to leadership and discipleship.

She later moved to Oregon, where she earned an Associate degree from Chemeketa Community College and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management. During her college years, Joy served as President of the Christian Club, Vice President of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, Student Senator, and Student Body President. Alongside her academic leadership, she served in local churches as Youth Director, Children’s Pastor, Children’s Ministry Director, and a worship team member.

In 2004, Joy relocated to Jacksonville, Florida, where she continued to serve actively in local church ministry while working in management at State Farm Insurance. After more than ten years in corporate leadership, Joy stepped away from her position in 2008 to pursue God’s call into full-time missionary service.

Joy’s missionary work has taken her to Mexico, Guatemala, and India, and she served as a missionary in Honduras from January 2011 through July 2025. During her years on the field, she invested in discipleship, leadership development, biblical training, and compassionate outreach, including more than six years serving on the Honduran mainland before being called to the Bay Islands.

In July 2025, Joy relocated to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to attend seminary and complete a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. This season of training represents a deepening of her long-standing ministry call, equipping her to serve individuals through biblical counseling, life coaching, and whole-person discipleship, while continuing to lead Joy To The Nations with vision and integrity.

Joy remains deeply committed to global missions through trusted international partnerships, with proceeds from U.S.-based ministry supporting ongoing mission efforts around the world. As President of Joy To The Nations, she continues to provide strategic leadership, spiritual oversight, and a clear commitment to seeing lives transformed through the truth and love of Jesus Christ.

Jennifer (Jen) Cook is originally from the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area. She entered ministry and missions in 2001 and has served in multiple countries across Asia, Central America, and the United States. Prior to entering missions, she graduated from college in 1991 and spent ten years working in a medical field profession.

In the fall of 2002, she began undergraduate studies and later graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Religious Education. That same fall, she traveled to the Philippine Islands for her first short-term mission trip with her initial missions sending agency. Following her time in Asia, she trained in and later served from the Petén region of Guatemala, and subsequently served for several years in North Florida managing a Short-Term Trips office.

Since 2012, Jennifer has served with Joy To The Nations International, Inc. (JTTN) as Vice President and Co-Founder, a board member, and a missionary. Alongside her Ministry Associate, Joy Dodd, she served in the San Pedro Sula area of Honduras for approximately seven years before transferring to Roatan in the Bay Islands of Honduras in 2017.

Her current ministry assignment has been to North America since April 2023 first to the U.S. South to promote the ministry by making solid ministry connections. She is now based in the U.S. Midwest, where she is working full-time as a Biblical Counselor and Life Coach, while also attending seminary classes through 2027 to continue growing and stretching in this new season of ministry alongside her colleague, Joy Dodd.

The vision for service is to: bring souls into the Kingdom of God; demonstrate to the nations that they are not forgotten, abandoned, but are called to be children of God loved by the Body of Jesus Christ; raise up a new generation with extraordinary faith to believe that God can change nations through them; raise up fathers and mothers of faith, building the Kingdom of God through discipleship, mentorship, evangelism.

Jen is excited to see people come to know Jesus, mature in His Word, and labor to this end in various and unique ways with our gifted JTTN team.

Please prayerfully consider connecting Today with the Joy, the Blessing and the Eternal Reward of Being an Expression of Christ to the Nations through JTTN and Jen Cook and be Blessed by the Spiritual Fruit that will be credited to your Eternal Account in Heaven!

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