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Jack Thomasson
Jack E. Thomason and his wife, Sharon, have been married 48 years served in full-time ministry with Youth for Christ for twenty five years. They served as a team working with troubled youth and the...view moreJack E. Thomason and his wife, Sharon, have been married 48 years served in full-time ministry with Youth for Christ for twenty five years. They served as a team working with troubled youth and their families. Their home became a refuge to teenagers. Jack and Sharon are graduates of Arlington Baptist College/ Bible Baptist Seminary. They stepped out of the stereotype for pastors to their first love, sharing the message to those who have not heard. They call it, “front line ministry.” Jack’s favorite saying is “Jesus did not pastor a church, he when where people are, on the streets!”
In Michigan Jack fulfilled his internship with YFC and conducted ministry in five cities simultaneously. He directed the Lifeline Ministry in the Petoskey,MI area and oversaw the NYPUM Program (National Youth Program Using Minibikes). He became a certified instructor and received fifteen new Honda minibikes as ministry tools. He rode his first 500 mile bicycle trip and canoed the Au’sable River by canoe with his Lifeline teenagers.
In Texas, home for Jack, they directed a youth center, ran ministries in four cities. Conducted ski trips to Colorado. They organized the Youth Guidance ministry to troubled teens, put together a Youth for Christ summer youth conference for 500 teenagers on South Padre Island. A Project Serve trip into Mexico to El Castle Delray led to Project Serve, to The Dominican Republic. Jack and Sharon served as a team leader with Project Serve to the West Indies. They served with teams that built a high school on the Island of Saint Vincent. They fell in love with a primitive, isolated and forgotten village called Sandy Bay.
Back to Michigan, home for Sharon, where a new ministry was started in the basement of a store front downtown. The first ministry there was a trip to Washington D. C. and basketball tournaments on Main Street. Jack was diagnosed with Parkinson Disease and he could not keep up with fulltime youth ministry.
Jack’s next book, “Silent Journey” centers around the diary he kept after the tragic death of his daughter-in-law. He became a Mr. Mom to, his three month old and fifteen month old grandsons.view less