Jim Singleton is Executive Director of Missional Leadership for Leighton Ford Ministries, leveraging years of experience as a senior pastor, seminary professor, mentor, and mentee to help raise up the next generation of missional leadership.

In addition to his part-time role with LFM, Jim serves full-time as Associate Professor of Pastoral Leadership and Evangelism at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he directs Thriving in Ministry, a Lilly Endowment-funded program to help pastors in New England “thrive” in the very difficult practice of ministry in this season.  He has a passion for equipping pastors and congregations to revitalize their approach to ministry.

The son of a Presbyterian minister, Jim brings 30 years of church leadership experience, including serving as senior pastor of churches in Texas, Washington, and most recently, First Presbyterian Church of Colorado Springs, a downtown congregation of 4,000 members.  He has served at Gordon-Conwell since 2012.

Jim first met Leighton Ford in 1989 while working on his doctorate in Boston.  As a senior pastor, he later utilized Kevin Ford’s Transforming Church: A Visioning Roadmap (LINK) process.  He considers Leighton to be “the chiropractor of my soul.”

Jim is an avid fan of baseball history, church history, hiking, and cross-country skiing.  He is married to Sara, who is pastor of Old South Presbyterian in Newburyport, MA.  The have a son, James, and a daughter, Rachel, and three grandchildren.