Ron Jones
Ron Jones is from Augusta County, Virginia. His dad moved the family there from Alexandria the year after he helped coach the TC Williams Titans (remember them?) to the '71 Virginia state championship. They bought and renovated an abandoned farm house on Baron Ridge, where he transitioned from city boy to country boy overnight.
He joined the Navy after graduating high school and worked on nuclear power plants before going to Old Dominion University in Norfolk and becoming a Navy Officer.
Although he was around Jesus a lot over the years, he never met him until his first child was born - an event that brought him face to face with the need to really know what life is all about.
In 2019, after a thirteen year long battle with treatment resistant depression, he stepped down from the organization he was leading to take a job doing manual labor, looking for space to recover. It was then the Holy Spirit became real to him, speaking to him and walking him slowly out of the "valley of the shadow of death" and into a renewed life.
Ron and his wife Tina met in high school when she was 14 and he was 17. Currently she runs a home day care. Along with his day job with the government, Ron is a counselor and the founder of Abiding Life Coaching and Counseling (ALCC). Ron also teaches boot camp at the YMCA where they work out together each morning at 5AM. He is a novelist in his spare time. They have two grown children.
