Joe Packard
Joe Packard is HCA’s Athletic Director and one of HCA’s Bible teachers. He has been a coach and teacher since 2005. He started as the Athletic Director in 2022. He and his wife both teach at Heritage, and they have 3 boys that attend here. Joe has a degree in English Literature as well as a minor in Spanish from Western State College. He also competed in collegiate cross country and track and field. He was previously a full-time pastor at a local church for 15 years. He stepped away from this role predominantly as part of God moving him towards full-time investment at HCA. Joe coaches high school cross country, girls basketball, and track and field.
He teaches just like he coaches, with deep passion and encouragement grounded on the Truth of Jesus Christ. He insists upon excellence, evidence in growth, self sacrifice, discipline, teamwork, and unity. His classroom will be a place of peace, joy, interaction, dialogue, fun, and influence. Our bible classes will be poised to dig deep into the truths and power of Scripture but also environments of spontaneous and Spirit-led focus on how to navigate the unprecedented season of life we’ve all found ourselves in – at school, at home, in the church, and in the world.
His heart is to see our young men and women at HCA push out of the ordinary in everything they do and into the extraordinary that is everything that Jesus Christ epitomized in His life and death. Joe is committed to instruction and learning that is normal, required, expected, and necessary for furthering careers and spurring academic growth. He teaches and coaches because he hopes that in the midst of that growth and development, that an even greater, unexpected, and frankly miraculous work of God might take place in our students. His prayer is that as an outcome of their time in his classes and our school, that they might become a fragrance and being unlike anything the world has known or seen, for the glory and purposes of Our Father God.
Joe is very humbled and honored to be able to serve in the roles God has set before him. He is more aware than ever of his dependency upon Jesus and his total inability to accomplish anything apart from Him. He is so grateful to be here, to have his family here with yours, and for us to journey together in being more and more like Jesus as we strive to together obey and live out the callings of God by the very power, indwelling, and guidance of the Holy Spirit! He’s so ready to work harder than ever, to have more fun than ever, and to witness, share, and celebrate the goodness of Our Father together – every year at HCA! “Let’s BLEED GREEN, and launch wholeheartedly into every relationship and activity expecting nothing less than to marvel at what He can do!”