Before serving our church Pastor Kevin served as the part-time Interim Pastor for the North Street Union Congregational Church UCC in Medford, MA. This was a congregation with a significant elderly population. His ministry at North Street focused on providing a pastoral presence for long-time members. Kevin also served as a student minister for the North-Prospect Congregational UCC in Cambridge, MA. As a member of the First Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Kevin served as part of the pastoral care team. He has experience in the areas of social action/just peace, adult and children's Christian education, church visioning/leadership, and church administration. He was active in ecumenical activities including the founding of an Outdoor Church at Porter Square, a ministry to homeless persons in Cambridge.

Kevin grew up in Washington State and received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Political Science from Portland State University in 1979. In 1994 he completed the Senior Executive in State and Local Government certificate program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Kevin has a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School.

Prior to his church ministerial experience, Kevin spent 24 years in politics and government, working on environmental, human rights, and economic recovery issues in the administration of two different Governors and a U.S. congressman from Oregon. From April 1997 to June 2001 Kevin served as the Director of the Oregon Governor’s Office in Washington, D.C. He helped to create and pass funding for an intergovernmental endangered-salmon recovery program, and he helped write and pass legislation to create wilderness and conservation areas.

From January 1991 to January 1995 Kevin served as the Director of Intergovernmental Relations and also as Chief of Staff for the Oregon Governor’s Office. His service to the Governor and the Governor’s Cabinet and Staff provided policy, administration, budget, and legislative leadership. During this time Kevin coauthored the book “Setting the Stage for Sustainability: A Citizen's Handbook.”

Kevin is an avid baseball fan and enjoys hiking, biking, running, playing golf, reading, movie/theater going, as well as travel.

Kevin’s is married to Rev. Nancy Palmer Jones, who is the Senior Minister of the First Unitarian Church of San Jose.  Kevin’s older son Jason lives in Colorado Springs. Kevin’s younger son Jeremy is married to Patty and they have a wonderful son, Garrett, and live in Battle Ground, Washington.