Jim Carpenter

I grew up on a farm in Western Colorado. During my teen years I became a Christian and felt a call to ministry. I met my wonderful wife Dionne when we were both students at the University of Denver. We celebrated our fiftieth anniversary a few years ago.

We have two remarkable sons who married wonderful Christian wives. At last count we have 11 grandchildren, each of whom is the smartest, most talented, and cutest child in the universe. This isn’t just idle grandpa-speak either. I can prove it. (Proof consists of asking my wife.)

Together Dionne and I have served the Lord for 45 years: in church planting, training church planters around the world, writing church planting curricula, and for the last 20 years, pastoring a local church. I “retired” in 2022, but we are both still active in ministry.

I've always written, and over the years have published articles in Discipleship Journal, Leadership Magazine, and other ministry-related periodicals. I served as the chief writer and editor for a church planting mission, and published a collection of essays in 2018 - Leaning into the Wind. I've begun a series of novels, the Orchard Valley Stories: Esther's Legacy, His Hand is Not Shortened, and most recently, Like Willows Beside Flowing Streams.

I blog at withunveiledfaces dot net.