David W. Jones

I’m a pastor, storyteller, and songwriter exploring faith through songs about ordinary people, holy shifts, stubborn hope, and the surprising ways Jesus keeps calling us out of fear, scarcity, shame, and the crowd.

My books and songs come from sermons, stories, Scripture, church life, and the belief that faith is not just something we believe — it is something we practice. Sometimes the songs are funny, sometimes bluesy, sometimes gospel, sometimes tender, but they are all reaching for the same thing: a life where love moves, mercy acts, and church becomes a verb.

David grew up in the shadow of a textile mill in South Carolina where his father worked as the plant manager. In the mill village he learned about hard work, league softball, church picnics, neighborhood hospitality, and front porch story tellers. At age nineteen, David got his first job running a church youth program and took his father's work ethic and sense of the southern parish into the pastorate. Along the way, he met Carrie Richards from Ada, Michigan and convinced her to give up cold winters for hot summers and join him on the coast of South Carolina. Today, they live in Olathe, Colorado.

Here is how one reader described David, "Very few storytellers are the storyteller that David Jones is. He spins a tale to make a point and, in doing so, reveals truth through laughter. The tale becomes the memory tool so that the "ah-ha" moments become imprinted on your mind and can be retrieved for future inspiration."