Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

IN MEMORY OF POLICE OFFICER JORDAN CORDER

To the family, friends, and colleagues of Police Officer Jordan Corder:

From the beginning of time after Cain killed his brother, Abel, there has been a need for law enforcement officers to protect the weak and to bring evildoers to justice. This work is necessary in a sinful world and is dangerous. In modern times, some fifteen hundred and sixty-nine law enforcement officers have sacrificed their lives to protect the citizens of the State of California. Today, we honor the sacrifice of Police Officer Jordan Corder, of the Covina, California Police Department; who was killed in a police motorcycle vs. automobile collision in the line-of-duty while pursuing another motorcycle that refused to stop and ran a red traffic light at the intersection of North Citrus Avenue and West Puente Street, in Covina, California, on Tuesday, September 30, 2014.

Lord God, we are grateful for the life of Police Officer Jordan Corder. He died serving us. Help us never to forget. Help us celebrate the life of Police Officer Jordan Corder and honor his sacrifice. Be with the family, friends, and colleagues of this fallen hero. Comfort them and give them your strength. Guide those who seek to take care of the family of this hero. May those empowered to do so, care for them with integrity. In commemorating the death of this hero, help those who mourn to remember that death is not the end. Death does not have the final say, but is simply the transition to the glorious life to come. They should look forward to that life to come with joy and thanksgiving.

As for the citizens of Covina, California, help them to faithfully equip their law enforcement officers with the best tools to protect their community. May their training be adequate to the task. Help the citizens of Covina, California, to remember to pay their law enforcement officers fairly and treat them with respect. Help the citizens of Covina, California, to obey the law and treat each other with dignity so as not to add to the burden of crime and pain to their community.

The time for mourning will soon pass. We have now remembered and celebrated the life lost in this great tragedy. As the family, friends, and colleagues of Police Officer Jordan Corder go forward, they must celebrate the good things in their lives; and to celebrate life itself!

Finally, Lord God, we pray for the families, friends, and colleagues of all the law enforcement officers who have been killed in the line-of-duty and we thank you for their sacrifices. Bless the lives of their families, friends, and colleagues so they might find healing. Help their law enforcement organizations support the families of these fallen heroes. Even though their deaths might have been senseless, make something good come out of these situations so that their law enforcement organizations and the communities in which they lived and served might be stronger because of their lives and their deaths. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

Now, may the Lord bless you, and keep you: the Lord make His face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you: the Lord lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.

In His Service,

Chaplain Steven R. Closs
Retired Captain of Police, Nashua NH Police Department
The Peacemakers Prayer Ministry

Chaplain Steven R. Closs
Retired Captain of Police, Nashua NH Police Department

September 30, 2014

My Thoughts & Prayers are with his family, friends & coworkers...RIP Officer Corder....Thank You for you service

Val Naugle

September 30, 2014

My thoughts and prayers to your family and friends. RIP and thank you!

citizen

September 30, 2014

Rest in Peace Officer Corder. Thank you for your service. My thoughts and prayers are with the Corder Family and the Covina Police Department.

Cpl. Gary Hughes (Retired)
Passaic County Sheriff's Office Wayne NJ

September 30, 2014

Rest in peace my brother . You'll be missed .

POLICE OFFICER Steven Zazulkewycz
City of Passaic , NJ PD # 294

September 30, 2014

R.I.P brother, straight as an arrow free as a bird.

Det. C. Wrubel (ret.) Motor Officer
Schenectady N.Y. Police

September 30, 2014

Rest with God Officer Corder. Your ultimate sacrifice and dedicated service will never be forgotten. Prayers for your family and department during this time in their lives.

Retired Police Officer Bob Lester
Midland Texas Police Department

September 30, 2014

A police officer should be remembered not by how he died, but how he lived! A great man has gone to secure a safe path for the rest of us to follow. Thank you to you, your family and the Covina Police Department. Our country is a little less safe without you. Rest in Peace Brother!

Anonymous

September 30, 2014

On behalf of the CHP, our thoughts and prayers are with you and your loved ones. RIP Officer Corder.

Officer Trista Sharp
California Highway Patrol

September 30, 2014

Rest In Peace Brother. ride on from above as your fellow officers take the watch from here. My condolences to your Family and the Covina PD

Sgt Fred Nordt Jr.
Lake Success PD, Long Island, NY

September 30, 2014

May you rest in peace Officer Corder. Thank you for your dedication to serve and protect. Thoughts and prayers for your family, friends and colleagues.

Mother of Officer Craig Birkholz, EOW 3/
Wisconsin

September 30, 2014

God Bless His Family and fellow officers

PfC/Ret USArmy Richard King
Retired Army

September 30, 2014

Prayers of peace and sympathy to your family, friends, and colleagues. Rest In Peace My Brother.

Sergeant Gary Wilson
Henry County Sheriff's Department

September 30, 2014

On behalf of the CHP, our thoughts and prayers are with your family. RIP

Officer Trista Sharp
California highway patrol

September 30, 2014

R.I.P. Brother. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. You will never be forgotten.

Deputy Sheriff Brian Harper
Los Angeles County Sheriffs Dept. San Dimas Sta

September 30, 2014

God bless Officer Corder's family, friends and coworkers and give them strength and peace to get through their grief and pain. Thank you for your service brother.

Sergeant Clark O. Parry
Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office, New York

September 30, 2014