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ethnically and racially. His role involves the exploration,
formation and implementation of City/Community/County partnerships that
include diversity with the vision of sustained holistic transformation.
He is also the National Prayer-Care-Share Trainer/Instructor for the Church
of Christ (Holiness) USA.
Ward is involved in numerous parachurch ministries and
civic organizations and presently is the Mississippi Regional Trainer
for The Intimate Life Ministry based in Austin, Texas. He is involved
in preaching and teaching throughout Mississippi as well as across the
country.
Ward has served many years as a Volunteer Chaplain for
the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility. He was unanimously appointed
as a member of the Mississippi Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights to serve a term through the year 2004.
In 1990, Jarvis and his family left Greenville in order
to serve as Camp Director with Camp Pioneer, a youth Bible camp in Pearl,
MS. Jarvis joined the New Lake Outreach Center, an inner city ministry
located in Jackson, Mississippi, as the Director of Special Ministries
in January 1994. He was highly recommended and recruited to be the first
Executive Director of Mission Mississippi, which he accepted in May 1994
and continued to serve in that position through November 1997. Mission
Mississippi is a nationally recognized Christian racial reconciliation
ministry.
Jarvis is a graduate of Memphis State University and
the Evangelical Institute of Greenville, South Carolina. In 1988, Jarvis
left a promising career in the field of marketing and sales administration
to go into fulltime ministry in Greenville, SC. His ordination is from
the First Evangelical Church of Greenville, SC. He has made a life commitment
to labor and sacrifice to see young and old come to know, to love, to
worship and to serve Jesus Christ.
Ward and his wife, Brendalyn, reside in Pearl, Mississippi;
they have five children (1 married) and one granddaughter.
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