Rᴇᴠ. Sᴀᴍ Jᴏɴᴇs ®

Christ Follower 🐑 Family Man 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 UMC Pastor ⛪️ Teacher 📖Coffee & Chinese Food Enthusiast ☕️🥡 MDiv 👨🏻‍🎓History/Theology Nerd📔

[Rᴇᴠ. Sᴀᴍ Jᴏɴᴇs ® @RevSamJonesUMC]

The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.”
- Bryan Stevenson

[Rᴇᴠ. Sᴀᴍ Jᴏɴᴇs ® @RevSamJonesUMC]

One more time for the record. An amazingly huge THANK YOU to each and every one of you who called, came, watched, texted, posted, and otherwise acknowledged this amazing milestone known as ordination!

I love you all and MAY GOD BLESS YOU! 🫶🏼

#BeUMC

[Rᴇᴠ. Sᴀᴍ Jᴏɴᴇs ® @RevSamJonesUMC]

Your pick

[Rᴇᴠ. Sᴀᴍ Jᴏɴᴇs ® @RevSamJonesUMC]

Excellent read! One day it will be a gros mot to call our unhoused neighbor “a homeless person.” Better language is “person experiencing homelessness.”
10 out of 10 recommend 👍🏻

#WhenWeWalkBy

[Lake Cormorant Football Insider🐊🏈 @LCHSGoGators]

Final from the swamp
Lake Cormorant-42
Pure Academy-20

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https://t.co/mNvQF0vQcu

[Rᴇᴠ. Sᴀᴍ Jᴏɴᴇs ® @RevSamJonesUMC]

@alexander_clapp Absolutely loved Waste Wars. Scary stuff but something we all need to pay attention to. Thanks for this writing!

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[Rᴇᴠ. Sᴀᴍ Jᴏɴᴇs ® @RevSamJonesUMC]

@megreenwell OK I am loving your book! Very insightful stuff that most Americans don’t know.

[Rᴇᴠ. Sᴀᴍ Jᴏɴᴇs ® @RevSamJonesUMC]

🙌🏿⛓️‍💥 💚❤️🖤

[Rᴇᴠ. Sᴀᴍ Jᴏɴᴇs ® @RevSamJonesUMC]

Pete Crow-Armstrong is without a doubt the greatest baseball player in the majors right now. Just hit his 19th home run—a 452 foot bomb off the right field scoreboard, and has made some ESPN-worthy Gold Glove catches in center field. Wow. Just wow.
#PCA

[Rᴇᴠ. Sᴀᴍ Jᴏɴᴇs ® @RevSamJonesUMC]

I call upon all UMC churches in Mississippi to honor the Juneteenth holiday and to encourage your staff and members to engage in prayer, fasting, and community engagement in an effort to end racism in all its forms. ✊🏾⛓️‍💥✊🏾 💚❤️💛🖤

[Rᴇᴠ. Sᴀᴍ Jᴏɴᴇs ® @RevSamJonesUMC]

https://t.co/KBLfisWD9d

[Rᴇᴠ. Sᴀᴍ Jᴏɴᴇs ® @RevSamJonesUMC]

The human-inspired church concerns itself with Christianity.

The Spirit-filled church concerns itself with CHRIST.

[Rᴇᴠ. Sᴀᴍ Jᴏɴᴇs ® @RevSamJonesUMC]

Had about 30+ kids in the first day of VBS. I think I was most affected by the key verse from Psalm 56:3, which reads “When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.”

The kids learned it in one day. And to be honest, so did I.

I mean, REALLY learned it!

[Rᴇᴠ. Sᴀᴍ Jᴏɴᴇs ® @RevSamJonesUMC]

Preachers don’t want you to “like” their sermon.

They want you to DO something about it!!

[Rᴇᴠ. Sᴀᴍ Jᴏɴᴇs ® @RevSamJonesUMC]

The human-inspired church is nothing more than a clubhouse sans a golf course.

🔥🕊️

[Rᴇᴠ. Sᴀᴍ Jᴏɴᴇs ® @RevSamJonesUMC]

part in the work to eradicate racism in all its forms.

Just imagine what a beloved community we could all make of this place. It’s what happens When Believers Pray. 🫱🏿‍🫲🏻

[Rᴇᴠ. Sᴀᴍ Jᴏɴᴇs ® @RevSamJonesUMC]

Annual Conference has its ups and downs, but overall it has been three days full of prayer and celebration. Most of all, I have been reminded that God does not call the equipped. He equips the called. It’s also amazing to see how God takes our honest passions and uses them for

[Rᴇᴠ. Sᴀᴍ Jᴏɴᴇs ® @RevSamJonesUMC]

His good. The following announcement is definitely one of the ups of the week.

Friends, I have officially accepted the role to be one of the new co-chairs of The Mississippi United Methodist Conference’s “End Racism For Good” task force. I feel that God is calling me,

[Rᴇᴠ. Sᴀᴍ Jᴏɴᴇs ® @RevSamJonesUMC]

undertake this charge along with my brother in Christ, the Rev. Dr. Marcus Gaut, in the life of the Mississippi Annual Conference. Many thanks to Bishop Sharma Lewis Logan and Timothy C Thompson Sr. for putting your trust in us. To all, we deeply covet your prayers as we take