Jones reflecting upon the story of his birth once said: "All of my days have been lived with the feeling that Divine Providence has upheld, sustained and directed my destiny.
"[citation needed] Jones graduated with honors in sociology from the University of Kentucky, though he could not play basketball because African Americans were barred from the team.
Crawley was a Judge and founder of Little Zion Baptist Church of Brooklyn, New York.
[3] For 43 years, Jones served as minister at Bethany Baptist, a 5,000-member church in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and hosted a syndicated weekly radio program called Bethany Hour.
The Bethany Hour was also broadcast weekly on the syndicated Family Radio program hosted by the late Harold Camping.