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Jul 07, 2014 | Valerie L. Valdez

Answering God's Call

 

[Tex Appeal] For 16 years, Janice Jones worked in technical business and exploration technology for an insurance company. With biology degrees, she also taught and served as an adjunct instructor at Montgomery Community College, now Lone Star College.

 

But later in life, Jones’ career took a different route — straight into the ministry. She was ordained in 2008 after earning a master’s degree in divinity from the Seminary of the Southwest, and now leads the flock at St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church in Killeen.

 

Women like Jones who respond to God’s call to alter their careers and serve in the ministry bring a wealth of enlightening experience and knowledge to the churches they serve.

 

“Much of my life was preparing me for the ministry, but I didn’t know it,” Jones said. “But God has used everything that I have ever learned from business and biology to lead the church.”

 

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