Rev. Jan, as she is affectionately known, hails from Goldsboro, North Carolina, where she attended and graduated from the NC school system. As a prior military family. Janette and her husband Jerry have traveled extensively and now call Bellevue, Nebraska home.  The Joneses are the proud parents and grandparents of three adult children and three adorable grandchildren.

Janette is an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and currently serves as an associate minister at Allen Chapel AME Church located in South Omaha, Nebraska. 

 

Through the years Janette has become an accomplished playwright, producer and director. In 2002 her first stage production, Sistah Girl debuted, followed by Sistah Girl Revisited in 2005. Then, as a tribute to a beloved deceased cast member, Sistah Girl Now & Again was presented in 2008 at the Witherspoon Concert Hall.

In 2012, Cloudy Witness: Blessedly Assured would usher her into becoming an inspirational fiction author. Later following with the highly anticipated sequel, Finding a Happy Medium: Let the Redeemed Say So, in 2018.  And most recently, in 2024, as a 10-year anniversary of becoming a published author, Cloudy Witness: Keep Your Hand on the Plow! A rebranded edition of her first novel came to fruition.  Now available online.

                In 2009, Janette was a featured personality in An Inaugural Ride to Freedom: The Legacy of a People, a Movement, and a Mission. An Emmy Award winning Omowale Akintunde documentary.  The documentary was a depiction of a cross country bus trip made by college students, and members of the Omaha community to the inauguration of President Barak Obama.  She was later cast in Akintunde’s 2010 film ‘Wigger.’

                Make My Day Floral Creations was a home-based business Janette started over twenty years ago consisting of event planning, fashion show productions and floral designing.  Janette’s floral designs have been commissioned from clients as far away as Chicago, Arizona, Texas, California, as well as Georgia. 

Even though Janette has retired she has since found renewed purpose as a part-time banquet staff member at a local event center that allows all her acquired skills to be utilized and continually sharpened.