Pastor Nathaniel Jones has been ministering the gospel since 1978 and is married to Patricia Ann Jones, an anointed Psalmist and teacher of praise and worship. They have 3 sons: Jonathan, Bradley and Nathaniel Jr. Pastor Nathaniel Jones was born in Natchitoches, LA, and attended Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA. It was in college that Pastor Jones became part of a college ministry called Students for Christ. He ministered throughout Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas as a young minister. In 1982, he founded and pastored Living Hope Ministries Inc. for 7 years before moving to Bartlesville in 1991. Pastor Jones founded and pastored Restoring Lives Ministries Inc. in 1995 and resigned as Pastor in 2003. He worked for over a year with Bartlesville Warriors of Christ and was an associate pastor at Sooner Park Wesleyan Church in Bartlesville.

Pastor Jones has spent over 30 years ministering the gospel. He has participated in ministry endeavors with Evangelist R.W. Shambach, former CBN Ben Kinchlow, Louis Torres, and Jimmy Swaggart. Pastor Jones has licensed several ministers. He is conducting his seventh School of Ministry by teaching nightly classes one night a week for 20-24 weeks. Class graduates become licensed ministers and are commissioned to go out into the world and preach. Jones has been an adult protective services worker for 18 years and presently is a juvenile probation worker for the Office of Juvenile Affairs for the State of Oklahoma in Bartlesville.