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Pastor Jacob received his Bachelors in the Comparative Study of Religion at Harvard University, his Masters of Divinity at Princeton Theological Seminary where he and Pastor Jen were classmates, and his Doctor of Divinity in Christian Leadership at Duke Divinity School. 

Pastor Jacob grew up in a Deaf family and during seminary started a Deaf church conducted entirely in American Sign Language. Pastors Jen and Jacob then moved to Lincoln, Nebraska where Jacob served at First-Plymouth Congregational Church until Pastors Jen and Jacob received their call to serve as co-pastors of Claremont United Church of Christ in 2016. 

Pastors Jen and Jacob were married in Budir, Iceland on May 27, 2014. If you ask them, “Why Iceland?” they will likely respond, “Why not?” They have three beloved rescue dogs, Moses, Sophie, and Oliver and two rescue potbelly pigs named Hattie and Winnie. In 2022, they welcomed their precious human daughter, Clementine Jubilee Strickland. Jen and Jacob consider themselves “church nerds” who eat/sleep/breathe all things ministry-related, but outside of church they both love spoiling their 7 nieces, curling up with a good book, listening to podcasts, international travel, and eating vegetarian food.