THEODORE T JONES, ASSOCIATE SECRETARY OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE

Theodore T Jones was born and brought up in Hutchinson, Kansas. During his senior year in high school, he became a Seventh-day Adventist. As a self-supporting student, he spent five years in college—the first two years at Oakwood College, one year at Union College, and then another two years at Oakwood College from where he graduated in 1956. In 1958 he graduated from the SDA Theological Seminary.

Jones began his denominational service as a pastor-evangelist in the Central California Conference, Pacific Union Conference in the North American Division. After serving 10 years in this capacity, he was called to serve as an interdivision employee in the Far Eastern Division (now known as the Southern Asia-Pacific Division) to work in Singapore and West Indonesia Union. The Joneses continued their interdivision service in Uganda, Africa where he served as Chairman of the Theology Department at Bugema Adventist College.

The family returned to the North American Division where Theodore T Jones served as a pastor for six years in the Oregon Conference, eight years as departmental director and editor of the union paper in the Atlantic Union Conference, before he was elected as the Union President in 1994 and continued as the president until his election as an Associate Secretary of the General Conference Session in Toronto, Canada, on July 3, 2000. He is former editor of the Message.

He and his wife, Esther, are accomplished musicians. They have four children—Ted III, Randall, Jeffrey, and Janelle and seven grandchildren.

Jones serves the Eastern Africa Division based in Harare, Zimbabwe, Africa with a branch office in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa and the Southern Asia Division in Hosur, India. Calls for regular interdivision employees are placed with this office.