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==Background==

==Background==

Nelms is the third of four sons of Mack Nelms (1923-1995), an employee of Southern Bell [[telephone]], and the former Nan Smith (1925-2005), a schoolteacher. The parents, who are interred at Bartow City Cemetery in Bartow in Jefferson County in [[rural]] east central Georgia,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54425546/mack-nelms|title=Mack Nelms|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=November 26, 2018}}</ref> werefirst generation [[Christian]]s who shared an interest in the recruitment and retention of missionaries. Mack Nelms was a deacon or trustee in every church of which he was affiliated. He helped in the launching of three churches. At the age of seventy, he was ordained a Baptist pastor but died a year later. Nan Nelms long taught summer "Backyard Bible" classes. At the age of eleven, Jon felt a divine call to be a missionary and began witnessing for the [[Lord Jesus Christ]] at twelve and was soon engaged in street preaching. At the age of fifteen he began working in the bus ministry and participated in active street preaching. At seventeen, he enrolled in a Bible College, name and location unavailable, and graduated four years later c. 1977 as the youngest member of his class.<ref name=jnelms>{{cite web|url=http://finalfrontiers.org/jonnelms.asp|title=Founder Jon Nelms|publisher=Finalfrontiers.org|accessdate=November 26, 2018}}</ref>

Nelms is the third of four sons of Mack Nelms (1923-1995), an employee of Southern Bell [[telephone]], and the former Nan Smith (1925-2005), a schoolteacher. The parents, who are interred at Bartow City Cemetery in Bartow in Jefferson County in [[rural]] east central Georgia,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54425546/mack-nelms|title=Mack Nelms|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=November 26, 2018}}</ref> were first generation [[Christian]]s who shared an interest in the recruitment and retention of missionaries. Mack Nelms was a deacon or trustee in every church of which he was affiliated, and he was involved in the founding of three churches. At the age of seventy, he was ordained a Baptist pastor but died a year later. Nan Nelms long taught summer "Backyard Bible" classes. At the age of eleven, Jon felt a divine call to be a missionary and began witnessing for the [[Lord Jesus Christ]] at twelve and was soon engaged in street preaching. At the age of fifteen he began working in the bus ministry and participated in active street preaching. At seventeen, he enrolled in a Bible College, name and location unavailable, and graduated four years later c. 1977 as the youngest member of his class.<ref name=jnelms>{{cite web|url=http://finalfrontiers.org/jonnelms.asp|title=Founder Jon Nelms|publisher=Finalfrontiers.org|accessdate=November 26, 2018}}</ref>

==Ministry==

==Ministry==