Jason Brooks
Writer
Profile
Loganville, GA 30052
Jason is a freelance writer living in Grayson, Georgia. He writes mostly about whatever
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http://jasonbrooks.wordpress.com
works as a youth pastor and is also a featured blogger at the Loganville-Grayson Patch.
Experience
Youth Pastor, Chestnut Grove Baptist Church, March 2011-Present
Responsible for discipling over 35 students on how to love Jesus in a rapidly changing
culture. Writes monthly devotional for church membership.
Project Manager, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, February 2009-March 2011
Assisted Stuart McAllister by providing research in the form of cultural and current events
analysis, editing sermons and articles, developing youth based apologetics curriculum.
Responsible for overseeing church-ministry relations. Wrote multiple grant proposals to
secure funding for operations and special projects.
Writer/Producer-Radio, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, February 2008-2009
Responsible for writing and producing daily radio program Just Thinking, along with weekly
radio program, Let My People Think. Duties included editing sermons for air; developing
scripts for program introductions and closes; scripting fund raising appeals; scripting original
video productions; overseeing audio recording sessions for radio, video and audiobooks;
other creative duties.
Senior Pastor, New Horizon Baptist Church, September 2005-March 2008
Responsible for casting and leading vision for a declining church plant, including sermon
development, discipleship, marketing, and website content.
Education
University of Georgia, Athens, GA - B.A., English
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, New Orleans, LA - MDiv (incomplete)
Credits
Summary Writer, No Time to Read, Present
Blogger, Jason Young Live, Present
Featured Blogger, The Vine on the Patch, Present
Blogger, Loganville-Grayson Patch, April 2011-Present
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E-book, “Blue Like the Sky”, Amazon.com, June 2012
Loganville, GA 30052
Feature Writer, “Walton Is Camera Ready”, Walton Living Magazine, Fall 2012
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http://jasonbrooks.wordpress.com
Feature Writer, “Southern Billiards: All in the Family”, Walton Living Magazine, Fall 2012
“My Daughter, The Negotiator”, Atlanta Parent Magazine, July 2011
“Have You Seen Atlanta Parent Magazine, August 2010
“Homecoming”, The Cynic Online Magazine, March-April 2010
“Waffle House”, Honorable Mention, Storyhouse.org General Nonfiction Prize, 2009
Skills
Jason is passionate about what C.S. Lewis termed “the test of translation” - being able to
take ideas and put them into accessible, everyday language that anyone can understand.
With a wide variety of writing styles under his belt (formal, informal, fiction, non-fiction, blog,
business) he is well equipped to share any idea via the written word.
Referrals
Jason Young -Speaker and Author, Jason Young Live: **@**************.***
Sharon Swanepoel - Editor, Loganville-Grayson Patch: ******.*********@*****.***