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Who We Are Josiah Jones and his wife Courtney are Independent Fundamental Baptist Missionaries serving in Mexico. They and their four children - Lily, Obadiah , Chloe and Jedidiah - are sent out by the Fellowship Baptist Church in Bearden, Arkansas, where Bro. Kevin Stevicks is pastor.
Josiah was saved at the age of 11 while attending the First Baptist Church in Bridgeport, Michigan, having heard the Gospel for the first time through the preaching of Pastor R.B. Ouellette. Courtney was saved at the age of six while attending the First Baptist Church in Ashland, Ohio, under the preaching of Pastor Butch White. After living in Michigan for three years, Josiah's family moved back to Oklahoma City from where they originated and joined the Southwest Baptist Church in 1998. God used the preaching of Pastor Sam Davison and the caring youth workers at Southwest Baptist Church to point Josiah in the direction of ministry. It was during his teen years that the Lord placed a calling on his life to preach the Gospel in Mexico. Courtney visited the mission fields of Venezuela and Ecuador as a teenager, and God worked in her heart to attend Heartland Baptist Bible College in Oklahoma City. The Lord brought Josiah and Courtney together as they worked in many of the same outreach ministries of Southwest Baptist Church. Josiah and Courtney graduated from H.B.B.C. in 2008 having earned Baccalaureates in Theology and Elementary Education, respectively. They united in marriage the following week in Courtney's hometown of Ashland, Ohio. In the Fall of 2008, God led Josiah and Courtney to Bearden, Arkansas, where they served on staff at the Fellowship Baptist Church in a bi-vocational position for four years. They began deputation in August, 2012 and arrived on the field of Mexico in April, 2015. |
We firmly believe the "Word of God" to be those 66 books from Genesis to Revelation providentially preserved by God to every generation. Having Literal, Plenary Inspiration by the Holy Spirit of God, His Written Word is our Chief Authority in this life. We reject all perversions of God's Word such as those derived from critical texts (i.e. Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, W&H, Scrivener, etc.). We only accept and use the King James Version in English. We only accept and use Bibles in other languages translated from the "Textus Receptus" using Formal Equivalence, such as the Reina-Valera translation in Spanish.