Jim has spent most of his adult life in Christian ministry. He has attended the University of Houston, Prairie Bible Institute, University of Idaho ( BS in Education), Western Seminary in Portland. Oregon, and Fuller Theological Seminary School of World Mission (MA in Cross Cultural Studies). Jim has pastured churches in Idaho and Oregon and he and his wife Jo served ten years in Belize with Avant Ministries. Jim and Jo have been married fifty years and have four children, eleven grandchildren and one great grandchild. Someone has defined a bachelor as a person who has not made the same mistake once. We can gain wisdom from watching how people live their lives so that if they make the same mistake once or many times, we can avoid their path. We can also follow those who walk a path on which we might be glad to follow them. In People as Proverbs, you will find examples from both categories so that you may be like the bachelor and not make the same mistake once.