Who is Mark Jones?

Mark Jones Ministries, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization exempt from federal income tax, allowing donors to deduct their contributions. The purpose of Mark Jones Ministries is to provide various kinds of mental health services, prayer, and recovery plans primarily for single-parent families in acute crisis scenarios due to death, divorce, deployment, abuse, neglect, and exploitation. 

Dr. Mark Jones is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT), certified life coach, and ordained minister. He is the founder of his practice, South Texas Liberty Alliance Group, Inc., since 1992, as well as Mark Jones Ministries, Inc., which was founded in 1991. Dr. Jones has been married to Theresa since 1981.

Dr. Mark and Theresa formed Mark Jones Ministries, Inc. because they understand the plight of a single parent, having been primarily raised by a single-parent mother themselves. 

At the age of 6 to 8 years old, Dr. Jones, with his mother and brother Dub, lived in a storage building behind a church in Houston, Texas, after his parents divorced. At age 8, Dr. Jones was further traumatized when his mother married a man who turned out to be a physical, verbal, and psychological abuser. As a result, Dr. Jones experienced PTSD and panic attacks from watching helplessly as his stepfather beat his mother as she begged for mercy. Eventually, Dr. Jones’s mother escaped with her two sons in the middle of the night as the stepfather threatened to kill them while they raced down the streets of Houston, Texas, and finally found refuge in Dr. Jones’s aunt and uncle’s house in Baytown, Texas. 

Then, in the fourth grade, Dr. Jones, his mother, and his brother moved to San Antonio, Texas, where his mother found a sales job paying 100% commission, working six days a week to provide for the family. Their mother, Joy, taught her sons to sing in harmony at a very young age, a skill that led to Dr. Jones singing all the national anthems for 27 years at the San Antonio rodeo, among many other venues.

Theresa Jones also understands trauma recovery and healing because her biological father abused her before he abandoned the family. Then she was further abused when in middle school by her mother’s boyfriends. These traumas put Theresa in survival mode for many years. 

Additionally, when Theresa was in high school in the early 70s, her oldest brother was blown up in a tank fighting in the Vietnam War and was airlifted to San Antonio BAMC, where he survived, but then one year later was killed in a tragic construction accident. A few years later, her next-oldest brother passed away from a diabetic coma in the 80s. 

Dr. Mark and Theresa were married in 1981, and in the early 80s, they gladly took on the responsibility of raising their oldest brother’s daughter, Cassie. Her biological mother, several years later, took forced possession of Cassie, and later that year, Cassie passed away in Corpus Christi, Texas, from a drunk driver as a teenager. Several years later, Theresa’s sister passed away from a cancerous tumor surgery, and then one year later, her mother passed away. 

Theresa understands trauma and also understands what is required for intentional healing, recovery, and wholeness. 

Dr. Mark and Theresa created Mark Jones Ministries, Inc. to provide donors with an opportunity to make a lasting impact on those wounded by life's tragedies, offering hope and a plan. 

We pray a blessing from God over all of the donors who have supported Mark Jones Ministries through the years. 

(Matthew 25:40) … inasmuch as you have done it unto the least of these, you’ve done it unto me…

Dr. Jones, since 1974, has been singing solos at Cornerstone Church and Pastor Hagee‘s television ministry. He was also the the therapist for the first A&E Network weight loss show called “Heavy”. 

He contributes his success to God and not allowing fear and past hurts/wounds to rule his life.

 MJM Advisory Board