Timothy Paul Jones is the pastor of First Baptist Church of Rolling Hills, a growing congregation on the outskirts of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In addition to bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biblical literature and pastoral ministry, Timothy earned a doctorate in educational leadership from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He received the Baker Book House Award for excellence in theological scholarship, as well as the North American Professors of Christian Education Scholastic Recognition Award for his doctoral work in the field of spiritual formation.

Timothy has served Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Oklahoma Baptist University’s Ministry Training Institute as a visiting professor of biblical languages. He has written several books, numerous articles, and contributed more than two hundred entries to the popular reference work, Nelson’s New Christian Dictionary (Thomas Nelson).

Timothy has been married to his wife, Rayann, for eleven years. In 2003, they became the adoptive parents of Hannah, a seven-year-old girl from Romania. Hannah and her daddy spend their evenings playing Star Wars Attacktix on the dining room table and chasing one another around the house with lightsabers. The Jones family lives in Catoosa, Oklahoma, in a house owned by two cats, Martin Luther and Yoda.

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