The ministry of the Jay Stone Singers began in the small North Carolina town of Hope Mills, in October of 1976. Jay Stone, the group's founder, was serving as the choir director at his home church, Mount Carmel Pentecostal Holiness, in Fayetteville, NC. Having been involved with various local Southern Gospel groups for most of his adult life; Jay was beginning to feel that God was directing him to take his ministry back on the road. However, this time would be different because the group was to be made up of Jay, his wife Mary, their 14-year-old son Jeff, their 11-year-old daughter Sharona, and a few close friends.
