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Full name |
Howard Olean Jones |
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Birth |
April 12, 1921, in Cleveland Ohio, USA |
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Death |
November 14, 2010 in Seattle, Washington, USA |
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Family |
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Parents |
Howard O. Sr. And Josephine Jones |
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Siblings |
Clarence |
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Marital Status |
Married Wanda K. Young in 1944 |
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Children |
David, Lisa, Cheryl, Gail, Phyllis, |
Conversion |
As a young man in his late teens |
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Education |
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1944 |
Graduated Nyack Missionary College, Nyack, New York; also studied clarinet at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, Ohio |
Career |
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1944-1952 |
Pastor, Bethany Church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, Bronx, New York |
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1952-1958 |
Pastor, Smoot Memorial Church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, Cleveland, Ohio |
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January to April, 1957 |
Led Christ for Africa, an evangelistic tour of cities in Liberia, Nigeria, Ghana |
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1957 |
Starting in the late spring, Jones began providing assistance to Billy Graham’s New York City Crusade, preaching and helping to arrange a meeting for Graham in Harlem |
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1958-2010 |
Associate evangelist with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), including main evangelistic campaigns in Africa |
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1958-1993 |
Speaker on The Hour of Freedom radio broadcast |
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1960-1966 |
He and his family lived in Monrovia, Liberia, where he broadcast the Hour of Freedom radio program; Wanda Jones also led a women’s devotional show there. |
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1966-1968 |
Member of the National Black Evangelical Association |
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1969-? |
Speaker several times a year at the Schools of Evangelism sponsored by the BGEA in various cities around North America |
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1972-1974 |
Membership on the board of trustees of Huntington College , Huntington, Indiana |
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1973-? |
Director of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s Famine Relief Program for Africa |
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1974-? |
Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the National Religious Broadcasters Association |
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1978-? |
Member of the Board of Directors of Baseball Chapel, Inc. |
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1980 |
Elected to the Board of Managers of the Christian & Missionary Alliance |
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1983 |
Visiting professor of evangelism at Crown College in Minnesota, where a scholarship was named for him |
Honors |
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1968 |
Elected to the Nyack Honor Society of Nyack College |
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1970 |
Awarded Honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree from Huntington College, Huntington, Indiana |
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1980 |
Award of Merit given to the Hour of Freedom Broadcast National Religious Broadcasters Association |
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1983 |
Delivered the Staley lectures on evangelism at St. Paul Bible College, St. Paul, Minnesota |
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1983 |
Alumnus of the Year Award for Service to Society, Nyack College, Nyack, New York |
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2002 |
Awarded the Frederick Douglass Award from an Oberlin chapter of the National Association of Negro and Professional Business Women’s Club for outstanding civic contributions |
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Awarded the National Religious Broadcasters, Milestone Award for 53 years in the radio |
Books Authored |
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1964 |
From the World of Jazz |
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1975 |
White Questions to a Black Christian by Zondervan Publishing House |
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1968 |
For This Time / A Challenge to Black and White Christians by Moody Press |
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1992 |
Heritage of Hope: The Legacy and Future of the Black Family in America by Victor Press |
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2003 |
Gospel Trailblazer / An African American Preacher’s Journey Across Racial Lines by Moody Press ( a revision and continuation of From the World of Jazz) |