Reverend Jerry Jones is the General Secretary/Treasurer of the United Pentecostal Church International. He began preaching in early 1971 while still a student at Northeast Louisiana University and began evangelizing that summer. Reverend Jones has pastored in Metairie, Louisiana and Bridgeton, Missouri, served as Louisiana District Youth Secretary, and District Youth President, General Youth Secretary and General Youth President, served as a member of the Board of Publications, and a regional executive presbyter. He is married and has one son.