Chaplain (COL) Jonathan C. Gibbs III, USA (Ret) is an ordained minister of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. He has twenty-seven years of experience with the planning, development, resourcing, execution and supervisory oversight of Army religious support programs. This includes experience in managing strategic level programs for U.S. military forces engagement with foreign military and civilian religious leaders in the Middle East in support of U.S. Army Central Command theater security cooperation initiatives. He is an expert in Middle Eastern religions and cultures with combat tours in Iraq and deployments in Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar and Israel. He has extensive experience as an instructor in Army leadership doctrine, military ethics, and ethical theory.
He is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College, Command and General Staff College, Combined Arms and Services Staff School, Training Developers Course, Chaplain Officers Senior Leader, Advanced and Basic Courses, Air Assault, Airborne, Jumpmaster, and Pathfinder Schools.
Originally Princeton Class of 1974 he holds the BA degree, Princeton 1976; the MAR and M.Div., Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA; Th.M., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA.
Chaplain Gibbs is a native of Jersey City, NJ. Prior to entering the Army, he served for five years as a denominational Home Missions church planter and new church organizing pastor in Philadelphia, PA. He is married to the former Marion Degenhardt of West New York, NJ. He has two grown children and two grand-children. He enjoys gardening, reading, binge watching TV murder mysteries and is an avid sci-fi and war movie collector.
