Biography of bishop o t jones sr funeral news

Ozro Thurston Jones Sr. As a young man, in , he experienced and confessed salvation and "spirit baptism" or "infilling" as a second work of grace. Soon afterwards, he, his older sister and a brother developed into an evangelistic team in North Arkansas and the surrounding states.

Ozro Thurston Jones Sr. (March 26, September 23, ) was a Pentecostal - Holiness denomination leader and minister, who was the second Senior Bishop of the Church of God in Missing: funeral news.

Over the next few years 18 congregations were established as a direct result of their evangelistic endeavors. In Jones organized the youth department of the Church of God in Christ and served as its first president. Two years later he founded and edited the Y. Quarterly Topics, an education-oriented journal. In he was appointed assistant to the state overseer in Oklahoma.

In , Jones' career took a decisive turn when he became pastor of a small congregation of Pentecostal believers in Philadelphia. He moved to Philadelphia where he would reside for the rest of his life.

Bishop Jones died on September 23, , in Wynnewood, PA after a protracted illness.

In he became the state overseer for Pennsylvania. Not forgetting his work with the youth of the church, in he founded the International Youth Congress of the Church of God in Christ. In Bishop Charles Harrison Mason, the founder of the Church of God in Christ, selected Jones as one of the five men to be consecrated as the denomination's first "founding" bishops.

He was later selected to serve on the executive commission created by Mason to assist him during his last years in office. Following Mason's death in November , the commission then headed by Bishop A.