I absolutely love coming alongside pastors and churches to help them get clear on their culture, improve their hospitality, and accelerate their growth… even if they are going through a pastoral transition!”

Founder of Church Difference Makers, and former pastor of Trietsch Memorial UMC for nearly 2 decades, Jim has trained more than 20,000 pastors and church leaders in over thirty Annual Conferences in the areas of:

• Assessing and Changing Church Culture
• Passing the Baton in Pastoral Transitions
• Pastoral Searches for larger churches
• Churches wanting to improve hospitality

Jim has presented at the Church of the Resurrection Leadership Institute, and keynoted the Indiana Annual Conference. He has contributed articles for a variety of national publications, such as “The Circuit Rider” and “Leading Ideas,” and keynoted at United Methodist Annual Conferences sessions and spoken at numerous venues.

Jim’s wife, Suzanne, is a retired Special Education teacher. They live in Irving, Texas.