Offering Hope Through the Hard Times

• NW Hope Ambassadors is run by Chaplain Delia Coker in the Portland metro area.
• Primarily a first responder chaplain, Delia also provides services for police officers, firefighters, families in the community experiencing hard times or loss. 
• Her goals include meeting the basic needs of those she is serving, building rapport and sense of safety and developing a plan for coping with the crisis at hand. 
• Delia is also available afterwards for continued care.
• NW Hope Ambassadors is run entirely on support from people like you, click on "Partner With" at the top of the site to find out more.

Delia Coker has a passion for helping people during difficult times. 

Through her own life experiences of losing a child, a father, and a brother, she has seen firsthand the importance of emotional and spiritual support.

Delia’s husband retired from military service, so she has experience with military life and what it’s like to have a husband at war and be a spouse back home living with a the military deployment or watching their experience with post traumatic stress symptoms after their return.

Having worked with police and fire agencies since she was 14 years old, she has a deep respect for uniformed personnel. 

Delia has attended George Fox University where she worked on a Master’s in Marriage and Family Counseling and is now finishing up a Master of Divinity degree at Fuller Theological Seminary.

Delia holds various certifications in CISM (Critical Incident Stress Management), and suicide, and has done much work helping others with trauma.

She is currently working on her certification to become a Federation of Fire Chaplains Instructor and is also working on being an Ordained Minister through her church.

She is an active member of ICISF & FFC 

(International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, Federation of Fire Chaplains).

She is a board member on an anti-trafficking agency that works closely with Portland Police and other noon-profit agencies in the Portand Metro Area.

Delia is a lover of coffee and humans. If you want to set up a coffee date, please reach out. She'd be thrilled to dedicate some face time to hear what is on your heart. 

"We are created for relationship. We are better together."