About Jono

My name is Jono (short for Jonathan) Cyrus Adams and I feel called to be a Pastor in the Lutheran church.

I grew up in Delmont, Pennsylvania where I attended Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church.  I went to school in the Greensburg-Salem School District and graduated in 2008 with honors.

I’m currently a student at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV, majoring in geography with an emphasis in Geographic Information Science, or more simply, computer maps.  I’m finally in the home-stretch, have filed my graduation application, ordered my cap & gown and hope to (barring any strange unforeseen circumstances) graduate this coming May.

Starting in the summer of 2006, I worked at Lutherlyn, a Lutheran summer camp outside Pittsburgh, PA serving most recently in 2010 (my fifth summer) as Unit Leader, or one of 2 head counselors.  (As a side note, I will be returning to camp again this summer 2011 for one last hurrah before seminary).  This past summer, I did an internship at Saint Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church in Morgantown, WV; my job was to follow Pastor Brian Bennett around, providing assistance when possible, but for the most part, just learning about what he does on a daily basis.

For the past several years, probably since at least when I started working at Lutherlyn, I’ve been vaguely considering a call to ministry, but now, as my undergraduate career is nearing a close, I find myself more seriously following that call.

As much as my faith defines who I am.  It is not who I am as a whole.  I am a musician, competent with multiple instruments, having marched in WVU’s famed Pride of West Virginia marching band as a trumpet player and rank leader.  I am currently the president of WVU’s chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the national men’s music fraternity.  I am also a volunteer, having been a member of a volunteer search and rescue team since my senior year of high school, I have been involved in numerous searches for missing or lost subjects, and have assisted during numerous disaster situations throughout West Virginia.  I love dogs, the outdoors, technology, and my friends and family.  I consider myself very much to be a normal (albeit, quirky) guy.

While I strive to be the best person I can possibly be, I don’t feel that my faith makes me any better of a person than you or anyone I might meet on the street.  Please don’t lump me in with the radical Christians who hate everyone or the high and mighty’s who think they know the only path to salvation.  The God that I believe in is all about grace and unconditional love.