Jim Henderson (Director Since Dec 2000) Jesus invited Jim to join his movement when Jim was a young adult; prior to that they had minimal contact. This proved to be a transformational moment for Jim. (Not sure how it affected Jesus)
Jim married Barbara (an ex nun) and raised three kids. They planted churches, tried to be missionaries, worked in a mega church and stayed married for 40 years and counting. (Sometimes good things happen to bad people)

Although he tried hard (25 years) Jim was a failure as a pastor. He simply could not fill up a building on a Sunday morning at 11am. He finally retired from pastoring and began to devote all of his time to his hobby – amateur spiritual anthropologist.

One day on a lark, Jim “bought an atheists soul on Ebay”. Since Jim was too lazy to study apologetics he decided to learn how to “defend the space” instead of “defend the faith”. Jim became fascinated with the power of listening and around 2000 began to produce live events called Off The Map where he let people eavesdrop on his interviews with Non Christians and every kind of Outsider he could get on stage and convince to tell the truth. (He often just paid them)

This led to Jim writing a number of books such as Evangelism Without Additives, Jim and Casper Go to Church, The Outsider Interviews and The Resignation of Eve – how adams’ rib became the church’s backbone.

Jim holds a D. Min in transformational leadership and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fox Television, This American Life with Ira Glass and numerous small gatherings of unknown people all over the world.

Jim launched his own production company Jim Henderson Presents (JHP) in 2010. Jim’s mission is to Take Jesus Public. He doesn’t understand why followers of Jesus have absented themselves from the broader public conversation that shapes spirituality and is currently dominated by well-known entertainer- spiritual salespeople such as Oprah/Chopra/Palin and Beck.

Jim is an expert in Live Event Design and produces writers, entertainers, artists and thinkers who have the capacity to Take Jesus Public. JHP is currently co-producing a show called Stories From The Shack with Paul Young. The show mashes elements of Cirque Du Solei with Charlie Rose like interviews and Social Media. It’s The Shack Live. A powerful event where people experience what they’ve read about in the book, meet Paul Young and some of his famous and no so famous friends and talk with each other, their Facebook friends and those on stage as the show happens.

Jim believes people deserve the opportunity to reject Jesus for the right reasons (such as it’s really hard to live that free), instead of all the unfortunate ones Christians have offered up for the past thirty years and counting.