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Father Jim is a Kentucky native, born in Glasgow in 1955 and grew up in Green County as the eldest of six sons in a sharecropper family. After a tour of duty in the United States Air Force in the waning months of the Vietnam Conflict, he completed an Engineering Technology degree at Kentucky College of Technology. He worked as National Service Manager for a Patient Monitor manufacturer and began his ministry in 1982 as a Youth Minister at a small non-denominational church in Huntsville, Alabama. At the same time, he began his theological education during two years at Alabama Christian College.
Returning to Kentucky - the home he loves - in 1985, he continued studying in the Program of Alternate Studies through Bethel College / Memphis Theological Seminary. For over two decades, Father Jim pastored small mission churches in rural Kentucky while continuing to work as a Field Service Engineer and/or Field Service Manager for different medical equipment manufacturers, including the company he has now been with for over twenty-five years.
Over time, he came to embrace a more sacramental theology while holding to his evangelical tradition, and in 2003 began a seven year affiliation with the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches. After completing the diocesan mentored study program, he was ordained as a Deacon in June of 2004 and to the Priesthood on November 27th of that same year. While with the CEEC, he continued to pastor the small rural churches as well as serving as a Canon Missioner and as a member of the Bishop's Council.
Father Jim first came to St. Stephen Church in April of 2010 and was installed as Associate Rector on the First Sunday of Advent in the same year. He is continuing his education through Trinity Seminary in Newburgh, Indiana and will complete his Pastoral Counseling degree later this year. He was married to Joyce in October of 1987. Joyce works as the Office Manager / Executive Assistant at St. Edward Catholic School. They have one daughter, Sarah, who is completing her engineering degree at the University of Louisville (Speed School of Engineering).
Father Jim Curry