About Us
Purpose of JesusGraceandTruth.com Ministry
The purpose of the JesusGraceandTruth.com ministry is first and foremost - to glorify God. We seek to proclaim the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and to encourage our fellow spiritual travelers in this life with the promises of God in Holy Scripture, through Bible studies, inspirational videos, music and scriptural revelation, meditation, prayer support, and the above down–inside out spiritual transformation of God's Spirit. We believe all good gifts and blessings come down from Heaven above because God is good and Jesus loves you.
Dr. John Young was serving in private practice as a Doctor of Chiropractic in the St. Louis area, when he struggled through a call to ministry in 1979. After much prayer and reflection, he sold his practice and moved his family to Kansas City to attend seminary. John completed a Master of Divinity Degree and served several churches in a variety of capacities over the years, including as a minister of education, minister of education and administration, associate director of the Christian Life Commission in Nashville, Tennessee, minister of media and evangelism, and as an associate pastor and head of staff.
About ten years ago John completed a one-year Residency Program in Clinical Pastoral Education at the Midwestern C.P.E. Program at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, serving for one year as the Resident Chaplain at Lee's Summit Hospital as part of that training program. John then served for almost 8 years as a hospice chaplain ministering to patients and their families who were going through an end-of-life journey.
Chaplain John has a passion for pastoral care and for providing spiritual encouragement and prayer support for people who are discouraged and struggling with a crisis of faith in their spiritual journey. We are living in very difficult times in our world with the Covid Pandemic, which caused a great deal of stress and turmoil, both physically, medically, financially, socially, politically, and spiritually. During the past year and a half Chaplain John entered into a time of extended sabbatical break for personal prayer, study, and spiritual refreshment when the nursing homes were locked down, which was necessitated by the pandemic. It was this period of time that gave birth to Chaplain John's online ministry of JesusGraceandTruth.com.
If you or a friend need confidential prayer support and spiritual encouragement, please send a prayer request through this website and Chaplain John will endeavor to contact you in a timely manner by email to offer words of encouragement and prayer support. PLEASE NOTE: Chaplain John is not a professionally trained psychologist or psychiatrist or a family counselor - but only provides words of encouragement from the scriptures and from the promises of God found in the Bible, along with personal prayer support. IF YOU NEED PROFESSIONAL HELP AND COUNSELING - PLEASE CONTACT A TRAINED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR FOR HELP IMMEDIATELY - ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT HARMING YOURSELF OR SOMEONE ELSE.
If you want to send a private confidential email to Chaplain John - Please send it to the following email address:
chaplainjohnyoung@JesusGraceandTruth.com
Our goal is for you to be able to hear the invitation of our Lord Jesus who said, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light" (Matthew 11:28-30 NIV).
Wishing you God's Grace and Peace and Very Best Blessings - Chaplain John Young