R. Carnell Jones is the former bi-vocational pastor of New HopeFellowship in Bloomington, Illinois where he served forsixteen years. He is employed as a systems analyst for alarge Midwestern insurance company. He is also the authorof "New H.O.P.E. - Healing of the Psalms Extracted", "Deploying You Bes Self", "The Expectation Factor", "Tekel: Emotions in the Balance",the creator of the best-selling Christian card game,"Amen," and a second Christian card game, "Kingdom.

"He is a 1983 graduate of North Carolina Central University(BBA).The Jones family lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.