John Paul & Kenzie Jones
Serving in
Alaska,
Far North
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John Paul was saved in 2015 and baptized at Providence Baptist Church in Ooltewah, Tennessee. Kenzie was saved in 2008 and baptized at Shenandoah Baptist Church in Cleveland, Tennessee. Kenzie and John Paul met in high school at Shenandoah Baptist Academy, Cleveland, Tennessee. Both felt led to attend The Crown College in Knoxville, Tennessee. During their first semester, they started dating, but Kenzie was praying specifically about going to Russia. They both prayed that God would give them the same burden if they were meant to be married. At a missions conference they attended, a Native American missionary shared his burden for his people and other tribes around the country. Kenzie and John Paul realized they both had received a burden for the Native American peoples. Throughout the conference, they both received confirmation Scriptures from the Lord of their burden. They married in June 2019. Kenzie graduated with an associate degree in Office Management. John Paul graduated with his bachelor's in Pastoral Ministry and completed his Master of Ministry. They have one son, John Paul "Buddy" Jones Jr., and one daughter, Amelia Paisley Jones.
The Jones family are on their way to the Bethel Consensus Region of Alaska to plant churches in the Native communities. There are fifty-six villages in the region. It is about the size of Ohio, and there is no road system to get from one village to the next. Most of the villages have some form of church, mostly Russian Orthodoxy. There are only two Baptist Churches in the entire region. They are told that if they are baptized, go to mass, pray to shrines, and own a copy of the Word of God, then they are on their way to Heaven. The only way these people will hear the Truth, is if someone goes to tell them. The Jones family is going to this region so the people will know that Salvation is by Faith in Christ alone.
