ASSOCIATE MINISTER    ( revljones@alphabc.org )

God called Rev. Leesa Jones into a ministry of compassion and reconciliation at a young age. Growing up in the church, she was aware of a “special call” on her life and she always wanted to be available to Him, even though she didn’t always know how to do that. In the early 1980s, the Lord called Rev. Jones to street ministry and gave her a love and passion for the hopeless, helpless, hurting, and homeless. She has a deep compassion for all of humanity, in general, knowing that they are hell-bound, if they reject the Lord Jesus Christ, the only sacrifice for sin. In 1992, she married Deacon Milton R. Jones. Together, the couple has answered the call to “go ye, therefore into all the world and preach the gospel.” Rev. Jones attended Grace Bible Institute and Manna Bible Institute. Later, she and her husband started the Evangelical Outreach Ministry with Grace Baptist Church in Burlington, NJ, where she was licensed to preach the Gospel in 1994 and ordained in 2001. The Evangelical Outreach Ministry birthed several other ministries at Grace Baptist Church, including a project called Kidz for Christ that was instrumental in building an orphanage and several schools in Hyberbad and Vetshetnaputnim, India. From 1992 to 2003, Rev. Jones served as a volunteer chaplain assistant in the Mid-State Correctional Facility where she helped to facilitate with other ministers a monthly church service and communion service. In 1995, along with ministry colleague and friend, Sister Gwendolyn Morgan, Rev. Jones founded and organized a food bank called Bread of Life at Grace Baptist Church. The food bank, which operated until 2005, was one of the largest in South Jersey run by a church. Along with the bi-weekly food distributions, people also received the word of God and many subsequently gave their lives to Christ and became His disciples. Rev. Jones has ministered in nursing homes throughout the South Jersey area for more than 15 years. At Grace Baptist Church, she also served in the capacity of Sunday School teacher and youth leader. Rev. Jones also organized the first women's Bible study at Grace Baptist Church and the Woman on the Emmaus Road women's conferences. Rev. Jones was one of the coordinators for the New England Workshop ministries and served as the Mobile Street unit leader, which took the love of Christ to youth detention centers and homeless shelters. She has also ministered homeless shelters and prisons from Connecticut to North Carolina. Rev. Jones calls her husband Milton “the love of my life” and says that next to her salvation, he is “God's greatest gift to me.” The couple joined Alpha Baptist Church in 2006 and say that they feel “so wonderfully blessed to be part of such an awesome ‘Kingdom of God living church.’” Rev. and Deacon Jones have two Spirit-filled daughters, Sonja and Terri. Terri is married to K.C., a wonderful Spirit-filled man, and they have two anointed sons, Ricky and Kyle, who will take the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ to their generations. Rev. Jones is not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, “for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth," and it is her life's mission to share the gospel with every life I am privileged to meet. She is eager to share with everyone what the Lord has done for her. "But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.”—Jeremiah 1:7.