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Jim Feeney was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1943. After growing up on the East Coast, Jim has spent most of his adult life in Alaska and Oregon. In 1972 Jim married his wife Mickey in Anchorage, Alaska. The Lord has blessed them with four children and two grandsons.
After majoring in English at Boston College, Jim earned his Master of Business Administration degree from Santa Clara University. Some years later he received his Ph.D. in Church Administration from Trinity Theological Seminary. Jim's doctoral dissertation on church planting was published and has been used as a reference book at Fuller Theological Seminary, at the International School of Ministry, and elsewhere. Jim holds professional membership in the Evangelical Theological Society and in the Society for Pentecostal Studies.
From 1967-71 Jim served as a U.S. Air Force officer. After this he was an air traffic controller in Alaska before being ordained to fulltime ministry in 1975 at Abbott Loop Christian Center in Anchorage. Jim served the church there in the ministry of bible teaching and also as Dean of the Charismatic Bible College of Anchorage.
In 1981 Jim and his family moved with a church-planting team to the suburbs north of New York City to plant a new church, which he pastored for five years. In 1989 Jim planted another church — South Valley Church in Phoenix, Oregon — which he pastored until his retirement from fulltime pastoral ministry in May 2006. Jim and his wife have moved back to Alaska. His desire now is to devote much time in his "retirement" years to adding many more bible studies and free sermons to this website. And, weather permitting, to spend time camping on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula! (see below)
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