Our Team
Jeff & Erin Jones
Jeff was born in British Columbia and grew up in Calgary. He joined the Canadian Army at 17 and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. In 2002, he was posted to the Royal Canadian Artillery School at CFB Gagetown, New Brunswick, where he fell in love with the region and its people—and, his future wife Erin, who he met at church in Fredericton. In 2003, Jeff suffered a training injury which God used to awaken a living faith in Christ. After leaving the Army in 2005, Jeff took his Master of Divinity from Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary in Cochrane, Alberta. While in seminary he served as Teaching Pastor at Symons Valley Community Church, and from 2009-2019 was Executive Pastor at Calvary Grace Church of Calgary. In 2019, Jeff was appointed as a SEND Network church planter and led a team from Calvary Grace to plant Grace Church of Cochrane, where he served as Senior Pastor until 2023. Aside from military and pastoral experience, Jeff has also served as a hotel manager, a Salvation Army program coordinator, and a corporate chaplain in the hotel industry, and he now works as a Library Manager in the New Brunswick Public Library System while serving bivocationally as a missionary to the Upper Saint John River Valley region.
Erin was born in New Brunswick and grew up in the town of Hartland. She and her sisters were invited to church by a neighbor when they were little, and she came to faith at an early age through the church’s loving care for them. Upon graduating from high school she moved to Fredericton to pursue her Bachelor of Nursing degree at the University of New Brunswick, always having a passion to help those in need. She graduated in 2003 and earned her Registered Nurse certification, working at Fredericton’s Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital. Erin met Jeff at a church in Fredericton in 2003. She and Jeff were married in 2005, and upon moving to Alberta Erin worked in the Foothills Hospital and later in the Bethany Care system as a nurse. She left her nursing practice for more than a decade to remain home with their growing family. In 2022, she re-entered the health care field doing at-home care as an aide, and loved helping the clients she had. Erin has a particular heart for the elderly and for those struggling with mental health challenges.
God has blessed Jeff and Erin with six wonderful children: Caden, the oldest, Cayleigh (in the blue sweater), Liana (in the pink and blue hoodie), Josiah (in his Calgary Flames colors!), and their twins Samara (pink sweater) and Sofia (violet sweater).
Caden, Cayleigh, and Liana were baptized in 2020 at Grace Church of Cochrane and, in addition to being active members of their youth group, have been regular Sunday morning volunteers at church. Caden is an accomplished cross-country and track-and-field distance runner and enjoys mountain biking. Cayleigh is a star student and talented artist who loves animals and wants to be a veterinarian one day. Liana, also a star student, enjoys climbing and aspires to go to the mission field when she grows up, and she and Cayleigh both share a passion for dance. Josiah loves playing hockey and, like his dad and his big brother, is a diehard Calgary Flames fan. Samara and Sofia love to bike and rollerblade and play soccer, and like their older sisters have a soft spot for any animals.
Jeff & Erin’s Family
