Brent W. Jones is director of service & outreach at StoneBridge Church Community in the University City area of Charlotte, North Carolina. He is also a member of the steering committee for the University City Family Zone and a network leader with ForCLT. He received his B.A. in international relations from the University of California, Davis, and his M.Div. from Western Theological Seminary in San Jose, California. Prior to 2001, he spent a number of years in software sales in California’s Silicon Valley. Following a call to ministry in 2001, he has served in various ministerial capacities in the San Francisco Bay Area and Charlotte. Brent also lived in Taiwan for three years, and he and his wife Mary speak Mandarin Chinese. They reside with their two boys in University City.