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Jim Futrell

Pastor, Community Life


Location: Kettering

Family: Tess (wife), Janessa (daughter) lives in Chicago, and Jocelyn Piper (daughter) lives with her husband, Dan, in Mississippi.

Alma Mater:
B.A. Nyack College, 1971;
M. Div. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School,1977;
D.Min. United Theological Seminary, 1997

Hobbies: Nature studies, fishing, genealogy, history

Favorite Song: Holy, Holy, Holy (the old hymn)

Favorite Movie: I enjoy many, but have no real favorite

Favorite Food: I want to say chocolate ice cream, but since I am allergic to ice cream, I will say fried chicken

Favorite Summertime activity: Visiting remote and unusual places in nature, near woods or water

Favorite Summertime memory: As a child, building a dam in the creek behind our home and swimming in it all summer long

Favorite Vacation Spot: Outer Banks of North Carolina

If I could go anywhere in the world: I would go to a wild jungle in central Africa

Favorite Ice cream flavor: Haagen-Daz chocolate

My Faith: I love Jesus and cannot imagine meaningful life without Him. I am intrigued by the sparkling truth of Christianity in the marketplace of ideas. I pray that my little light will shine, and some people will escape the darkness because of my faith and obedience.

Life Verse: "And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ--to the glory and praise of God." Philippians 1:9-11