Jonathan "Jonbo" Owen

**Work Experience:**

I toured the US and Canada with various music groups, including Atlantic City Steel Pier, Circus Maxx, Starflight, Millennium, Warriors, and Pursuit. During this time, I performed under several nicknames: Jonbo, Jonbolani, Jonny Scotch, and Zap T-Bone.

In addition to my music career, I have worked in various trades, including bricklaying, tuckpointing, custom sheet metal work, building custom fiberglass waterfalls and hot tubs, graphic artistry, videography, sound engineering, and more.

**Missions Experience:**

It is often said that a life spent serving God is never boring. Here are some highlights from my mission experience:

I have showered under a waterfall in the jungles of India, with wild monkeys all around me. I spent a day at the southern tip of India, where I witnessed the sun rise over the Indian Ocean and set over the Arabian Sea. I swam with dolphins on a small fishing boat in the Bay of Bengal, rode horseback in Belize, and toured with a music group across Honduras. I even appeared as a clown on national television in the Dominican Republic. Additionally, I snorkeled in the Caribbean, walked through coffee plantations in Panama, and explored caves in Missouri, North Carolina, and Kentucky. I have picked olivine crystals from the lava rock at the summit of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, bathed in Lake Atitlán, and marveled at Niagara Falls from the Canadian side. I was also baptized in the Arabian Sea, among other experiences.

My service has included preaching, worship, and children's ministry. I have trained church youth and mission groups in clowning, drama, dance, puppetry, sound reinforcement, and computer graphics. I organized and led various teams and tours throughout North America and Canada.

During multiple trips, I collaborated with teams to build medical centers in El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, and Costa Rica and helped establish a feeding center in Brownsville, Texas. I helped dig two wells by hand in Colima, El Salvador, and construct block houses for 60 families displaced by guerrilla fighting.

Furthermore, I built homes for widows in San Juan Cotsal and Atitlán, Guatemala, and contributed to the construction of orphanages in Guatemala, Costa Rica, India, and Nicaragua.

I also set up three film teams, edited films, organized tours, designed billboards, and trained teams to present the first Jesus film in India, performed by Indian actors and delivered in Hindi, the national language.

I currently live in my favorite state - Florida.