{"id":3710,"date":"2020-10-20T22:36:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T22:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/?p=3710"},"modified":"2020-10-20T22:36:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T22:36:15","slug":"unveiled-the-rev-melinda-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/unveiled-the-rev-melinda-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Unveiled &#8211; The Rev. Melinda Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" src=\"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Melinda-Jones-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Melinda-Jones-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Melinda-Jones.jpg 486w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Pastor Melinda Jones<\/strong>\u00a0serves as pastor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adventnalc.org\">Advent Evangelical Lutheran Church in North Charleston, South Carolina<\/a>. Along with the joy of ordained ministry to Word and Sacrament, Pastor Jones ministers to her parish neighborhood which is in the most urban, economically challenged area of the \u201cLow Country.\u201d Homelessness, alcoholism, drugs, human trafficking and poverty are some of the scars on those to whom Advent witnesses; Pastor Jones works with the sherrif\u2019s office, the attorney general\u2019s Office, and other local agencies to help bring awareness and the hope of combatting the suffering in this environment. Pastor Jones is secretary of the Executive Council of the North American Lutheran Church, which has afforded her opportunities to visit many NALC congregations. For the past nine years, she led and taught annual women\u2019s retreats in Rincon, Georgia, for Lutheran congregations in the NALC, LCMC and ELCA. Pastor Jones and her husband (Jim) of twenty-nine years live in Summerville, SC along with their two teenage sons (Jade and Vasa).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>For additional information, please connect to:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/GCS-Unveiled\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/GCS-Unveiled<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Melinda Jones\u00a0serves as pastor of\u00a0Advent Evangelical Lutheran Church in North Charleston, South Carolina. Along with the joy of ordained ministry to Word and Sacrament, Pastor Jones ministers to her parish neighborhood which is in the most urban, economically challenged area of the \u201cLow Country.\u201d Homelessness, alcoholism, drugs, human trafficking and poverty are some of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/unveiled-the-rev-melinda-jones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unveiled &#8211; The Rev. Melinda Jones&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[69],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Unveiled-Black-Background-Slide.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}