Dr. Norwood C.V.

Doug Norwood is the founder of Broken Jars, a transdenominational ministry of training, evangelism, and encouragement focused on assisting the Church to grow into its full potential according to the Lord’s design.

Born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and raised there as a Roman Catholic, Doug was the least likely person ever to become a pastor! Angry and rebellious as a youth, he searched for life's underlying truths in some bizarre ways: experimenting with "mind-expanding" drugs, testing various world religions, losing himself in poetry, then trying to find himself with a degree in philosophy. "Why don't you try Jesus?" a Godly Moravian pastor advised him, and from the moment Doug did that, his life was instantly transformed.

Re-created and re-directed, Doug became an ordained Moravian minister, and now holds a B.A. with honors in philosophy from Moravian College, an M.Div. degree from Moravian Theological Seminary (1973), a Th.M from Princeton (1977), and a D.Min. from the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary (2001). His nearly thirty years of ministry, characterized by powerful evangelistic preaching, Biblical models of discipling, and concentrations on church growth, include:

• “The Message” [1970-1973]: ministry on the streets of Allentown PA;

• Battle Hill Community Moravian Church, Union NJ [1972-1980]: Pastor;

• Evangel Moravian Church, Toms River NJ [1980-1991]: Church planter and pastor;

• Cornerstone Ministries International 1991-2001]: Co-founder and Director.

• Broken Jars [2001 – present]; Founder and Executive Director

In 1989, while ministering in Suriname, the Lord gave Doug a fiery vision of an outpouring of the Holy Spirit that would radically change the Caribbean and South America, and ultimately the world. In the next two years He quietly prepared Doug to serve Him in bringing about that vision. In 1991, after a miracle-filled trip to Jamaica convinced him that the vision was too compelling to resist, he resigned from pastoral ministry in New Jersey to help bring the fire of God to the region on a full-time basis. From that moment until the present, Doug has focused his life in fulfilling that vision.

Doug and his wife Sarah now make their home in Allentown, Pennsylvania.