• Hundreds of kids began a relationship with Christ Major crimes went down 40% in their targeted area
• The cycles of poverty was broken in the lives of so many kids as they graduate from high school and get jobs rather than go to jail.
• The value of marriage is embraced by many couples making marriage commitments.
• People from the community have become leaders in transforming their community.
• People are moving into the community rather than fleeing from it.

He believes that these same miracles could transform other high crime and impoverished neighborhoods in our city (and other cities) if the Church would mobilize their people in unity across racial and class barriers.

Jim was ordained in 1981 and has planted and co-pastored several home churches. He is the founder of City-Vision; a ministry that exists to ignite a movement for community transformation.

Current Board Positions:

• Dayspring Christian Community Development Corporation: a holistic ministry of Rhema Christian Center currently focused on affordable housing in Columbus, Ohio.
• Christian Community Development Association (CCDA): an association of over 600 Christian ministries serving in inner city and low-income areas across the country and around the world.
• Oyate Concern: a community development ministry on Pine Ridge
  Reservation in South Dakota.

Awards:
During Jim’s tenure Urban Concern received numerous local and national awards including:

1. The Point of Light Award presented by the White House on behalf of President George Bush Sr.;
2. The Mustard Seed Award presented by World Vision;
3. The Community Service Award presented by the Columbus Dispatch, and
4. The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award from the Columbus Education Association
   among others