Jon Randles is the founder and president of the Jon Randles Evangelistic Association and Randles, Inc., located in Frisco, Texas. Through JREA, Randles is involved in evangelism, church growth conferences and evaluations, discipleship, student ministry, and missionary endeavors world wide through speaking engagements, books, and CDs.

Through the medium of Randles, Inc., Jon Randles provides non-religious motivational concepts of excellence and success to universities, public and private secondary schools, government agency personnel, and private sector business and industry through speaking engagements and conferences, as well as books and CDs.

Randles is also a sought after speaker for motivating collegiate athletic teams including the football programs at the universities of Texas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Baylor, and Tulsa. As a speaker for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), he also speaks regularly at FCA student camps and events that include national leadership camps from 1996 to the present. Randles has also been the keynote for state-wide collegiate retreats in Texas from 1996 on, and for Oklahoma athletes 1995-1998 and 2001-2007. Other FCA events include hundreds of high school assemblies and rallies nationwide. Jon has also served as Worship Speaker for Glorieta and Ridgecrest Camps.

Since 1996 Randles has been called upon to address conventions of government agency personnel and private sector industry personnel on changing trends in society. One of his video presentations is used in a number of Texas counties to train Department of Human Resources employees.

Prior to forming JREA, Jon Randles was the pastor of Indiana Avenue Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas. Indiana Avenue was one of the nation's fastest growing congregations during his tenure there, 1988-1993 (26th in North America according to Church Growth Magazine - 1991). He was also the pastor of churches in Abilene and Graham, Texas.

While pastor of Indiana Avenue Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas (May 1988 - June 1993), church membership increased from 657 to 3463. 620 persons were baptized and 2702 were received in other ways. Worship growth increased from an average of 130 to 1800. Since forming JREA, recorded professions of faith in Christ have exceeded 1000 each year as Randles conducts revivals, camps, conferences, and events in local churches.

Randles is a graduate of Hardin-Simmons University (1980), where he earned his BA in history. He received his M.Div. degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (1986). He is also working toward a Ph.D. in history at Texas Tech University.

Randles has been a trustee of Hardin-Simmons University since 1993, teaches periodically as an adjunct instructor of Old and New Testament history at the Lubbock center of Wayland University since 1991, and presently speaks in over 100 churches and 50 school districts a year coast to coast. He also conducts in-service training events in conjunction with his motivational assemblies.

Randles is married to the former Kelly Dennis of Lubbock. She is also a graduate of Hardin-Simmons University (1979) and is an active member of First Baptist Church in Frisco, TX. The Randles' have three children: Zack, Sam, and Hayley. Their son, Zack, is married and currently the Student Minister at FBC Grapevine. Sam is a student at Tarleton State University studying music and playing in the praise band for Paradigm FX at FBC Stephenville, TX, and Hayley is a senior at the University of North Texas, studying Art History.