Bob Jones

ROBERT REYNOLDS JONES
1883 - 1968

Robert Reynolds Jones, best known as Dr. Bob Jones, Sr., was born October 30, 1883, the eleventh of twelve children, in Shipperville, Alabama. Converted at age 11, he was a Sunday school superintendent at 12 and ordained to the ministry by a Methodist church at 15. “Dr. Bob” was a Christ-exalting, sin-condemning preacher who first began preaching in the cotton fields, in country churches and in brush arbors.

Later he held huge campaigns in American cities large and small and preached around the world.

Billy Sunday called him the greatest evangelist of all time, saying, “He has the wit of Sam Jones, the homely philosophy of George Stuart, the eloquence of Sam Small and the spiritual fervency of Dwight L. Moody.” He saw crowds up to 10,000 in his meetings, with many thousands finding Christ in one single campaign. But Dr. Jones was more than an evangelist. As a pioneer in the field of Christian education, he founded Bob Jones University in 1927.