David Jones grew up in the shadow of a textile mill in Anderson, 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.

David is currently the Pastor of Macland Presbyterian Church in Powder Springs, Georgia and author of eight books and collections. David is also the Southeast Regional Director of My Neighbors Children, an organization that dreams of a world where no child is hungry. That website can be viewed at: www.myneighborschildren.org