Born: December 9, 1865

• Place: Texas Valley, Georgia (near Rome, Georgia) – Reared in Kingston, GA
• Mother:  Mary Jones
  Step-Father: Berry Latimer

• He had public school training by J. E. Bush from Talladega College, who took an interest in him. After the death of his mother, he moved to Cedartown and Rome, GA; from there to Chattanooga, TN. Sixteen months later, he moved to Memphis, TN; from there to Arkansas. He then moved to Cat Island Arkansas.

• In the month of October, he was ordained to the ministry in Mount Zion Baptist Church by Dr. C. L. Fisher. It was a presbytery of reputable men, both white and colored before whom his examination was very excellent. In their newspapers he was highly commended for his excellence.

Marriage

• It was in February of this year that he married his wife Fannie and they had one daughter, who died in a fire when she was only four years old.  His wife, Fannie died in 1916.  He later married his second wife, Pearl and they had three sons.

• Following a pattern of conventions and camp meetings, he called his first of several “Holiness Conventions.” He invited pastors and laymen who agreed with the Holiness teachings to gather for Bible Study, exhortation and prayer.

Arkansas Baptist College

• He graduated from the academic course of the Arkansas Baptist College and was called to Bethlehem Baptist Church in Searcy, AR, while there he became editor of the Baptist Vanguard Newsletter.

• The fight began against them and it was hard.  The move on the part of Mt. Helm voted to remove the name “Baptist” and change the name of the church to ‘Church of Christ’ with no creeds and denominational association.  In his zeal to be entirely Scriptural, not anti-Baptist, as the Baptist claimed to be.

HIS Fullness Songs

• From the very beginning, the Holiness movement had promoted its teachings through conventions and camp meetings. After much suffering, fasting and prayer he was encouraged by God through the Holy Spirit to write songs for his people. 

• The Church chartered the name of its private school which was moved to north Jackson in 1907 as Christ Missionary and Industrial College.

Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A.

• The churches and its associations across the country with Elder Jones officially chartered the name the Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A.  as a denomination.

• He developed a church government and began to see constant growth and expansion of the church he had founded. It was in the same year that the church adopted an episcopal form of government having bishops as its head.

Died: January 19, 1949

• He died January 19th in Los Angeles CA and his funeral was held on January 25th at Christ Temple Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A.  Los Angeles CA, his pastorate of twenty eight (28) years at 1:00 P.M.  with Bishop E.W. Butler Officiating.