Board of Directors

Joy is an ordained minister with a Bachelor of Divinity degree and has been a missionary since 2008. She has many years of experience in business management, church leadership, and children’s ministry.

Joy grew up in Pomona, CA, and began ministry at the age of 12, teaching Sunday School at Pomona Foursquare Church.  She became a Youth Leader at church and began a Christian Club on the campus at Pomona High School.

Later, she moved to Oregon, where she received her AA degree at Chemeketa Community College and went on to a BA in Business Management.  While in College, she was the President of the Christian Club and Vice President of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, while serving as Student Senator and then Student Body President.  While in Oregon, she served a local church as Youth Director and later served another church as a worship team member, Children’s Pastor, and Children’s Ministry Director.

Joy was transferred to Jacksonville, FL by her employer, State Farm Insurance, in 2004.  Joy quickly planted herself at a local church and began ministering in the Single’s Ministry, Prison Ministry, and other various ministries of the church.  Joy left her management position at State Farm Insurance after more than 10 years of service in 2008 to pursue the call to full-time missionary service.

Her mission adventures have taken her to Mexico, Guatemala, and India. Presently, she is serving full-time in Honduras since January 2011. After more than six years on the mainland of Honduras, God called Joy to the Bay Islands of Honduras. She is currently residing on the largest of the Bay Islands, 40 miles north of the Honduran mainland in the Caribbean Sea. View Our Missionaries

Jennifer (Jen) Cook is originally from the Harrisburg, PA area. She entered ministry/missions in 2001 and has served in various countries within the nations of Asia, Central America and even the US. Prior to missions, she graduated from college (1991) and practiced ten years in a medical field profession.  In the fall of 2002, she entered undergraduate studies and graduated summa cum laude in Religious Education. That fall, she traveled to the Philippine Islands for her first short-term mission trip with her initial mission’s sending agency. After Asia, she trained in and later served from the Petén, Guatemala region and later in North FL for several years managing a Short-Term Trip’s office. Presently, she is serving with Joy To The Nations International, Inc. (JTTN) since 2012 as Vice-President and Co-founder, a board member and also as a Missionary. Her Ministry Associate, Joy Dodd, and she served in the San Pedro Sula area of Honduras for roughly seven years before transferring to Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras in 2017. Her present ministry assignment since April 2023, is the US south where she will be working full-time in ministry as a bridger of the gap between the US and the nations of the world.

The vision for service has been and remains to: bring souls into the Kingdom of God; to demonstrate to the nations, through the Love of God, that they are not forgotten, they are not abandoned, but are called to be children of God and are loved by the Body of Jesus Christ; to raise up a new generation with extraordinary faith to believe that God can change nations through them; and to raise up fathers and mothers of faith, building the Kingdom through discipleship, thereby making them “Fishers of Men.”

Jen is excited to see people come to know Jesus, mature in His Word and labor to this end in various and unique ways with our gifted JTTN team. Please prayerfully consider connecting Today with the Joy, the Blessing and the Eternal Reward of Being an Expression of Christ to the Nation of Honduras through JTTN and Jen and in turn, be Blessed by the Spiritual Fruit that will be credited to your Eternal Account in Heaven! View Our Missionaries

Debra Wilson

Secretary

My name is Jeffrey Jones. I graduated from the University of North Florida with an Accounting degree and have worked in several different Accounting positions throughout my career.

I have traveled overseas on more than one occasion and have seen the mission field first- hand. It is apparent that what we have in the United States is not the standard around the world. We are truly blessed and I believe that everyone should leave the country at least once to realize that very thing.

It truly takes the whole Body of Christ to fulfill His plans for our lives. I have never had one true area of ministry per se that I ever felt called to, but have served where it was needed. To this day, no matter what size part that I may play, even if that is mostly behind the scenes helping others reach their calling, I truly find fulfillment in assisting people reach God’s potential for their lives. We come across a lot of people in a lifetime. And if I can make some aspect of yours just a little easier, then I feel that I have done my part.