MEET PASTOR JIM & MARGIE GLYNN

I’m Pastor Jim Glynn, president and founder of Heart of God Ministries. Together with my wife, Margie, we are called by God to a ministry of spiritual renewal and preparation for revival, first in the nation of Haiti, and then in other nations as the Lord leads us. Of course, only the Holy Spirit of God can bring revival to a nation. Yet we are called to be one of His many servants whom He calls to serve Him in re-claiming a nation that has been dedicated to Satan for two hundred years. We go to Haiti to love and serve its people; to honor, encourage, and challenge the pastors and spiritual leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of all denominations; to demonstrate the true Heart of God — grace, mercy, repentance, forgiveness, sacrifice, humility — where the ruling spirits, even in the Church, often demonstrate quite the opposite.

Our ministry in Haiti began in 1983, when, as I was pastor of a church in suburban Chicago, we began a relational partnership with a congregation in rural Haiti. We trained and led teams of our members every summer to engage in various ministries with our sister church. We lived with them, worked with them, worshipped with them, and grew to love them, as the Lord birthed a deeper call in my heart to this the poorest, most openly demonic, and most despised nation in our hemisphere.

In 1994, after eighteen years of ordained pastoral ministry, God planted in our hearts His desire for us to resign our ministry in Chicago to begin a full-time work to follow Him for the revival of the nation of Haiti. At the time we didn’t know what it would mean; we had experienced much in Haiti, usually doing ministries among a few churches there. But step by step, God revealed to us, first the true condition of the Church of Jesus Christ as it is today in Haiti, and then His desire to deliver and restore the nation to Himself. We began the non-profit corporation that is now Heart of God Ministries, carrying a message of repentance, unity, prayer, and worship renewal to pastors and churches in Haiti, and now also in the Dominican Republic, the island of Java in Indonesia, and to various churches in the U.S.

On a More Personal Note: Margie and I have been married since 1971. We have three natural children (all married) and six grandchildren. We also have three adopted Haitian children, who together with us form our current family of five. We now live with them in the city of Freeport, IL (one hundred miles northwest of Chicago), from where I continue to travel to Haiti and the Dominican Republic many times throughout each year.

Margie and I both graduated with B.A. From Wittenberg University in 1972, she with a major in Special Education, and I with a major in English/Sociology and minor in Music. I received an M.Div. from Northwestern Lutheran Seminary, St. Paul, MN, in 1976. I was Associate Pastor of Zion Lutheran Church, Des Moines, IA, 1976-79, and then Senior Pastor of Cross & Crown Community Church, Arlington Heights, IL, 1979-94, at which time we started this interdenominational ministry.

Since 1994 we have committed the financial needs of our family and this ministry into the hands of the Lord. We live, and the entire ministry operates, by the contributions and offerings of faithful individuals and churches.

Because this ministry is called Heart of God Ministries, I would like to share a piece of my heart with you in this introduction. These are my Primary Life Commitments and Priorities:

•To My Heavenly Father, My Savior Jesus Christ, and His Holy Spirit…for His revival fire to burn brightly in and through me; to know His purity, purpose, plans, power, provision, and peace; to worship, pray, and praise Him daily in the fullness of the Holy Spirit, and to follow Him courageously wherever He may lead.

•To One Magnificent Marriage…giving my life to one woman in this world as completely as I am able; to honor, applaud, and encourage her to be all she can be, and to serve together with her as partners in ministry throughout our lives.

•To Six Precious Treasures, Our Children…having loved, taught, and disciplined three of them to adulthood, now doing it again with three more, to continue to give to all of them my heart, my counsel, my life, and the creating of memories that will be a legacy of love and faith for their futures.

•To The Family of Christ’s Church…ministering with a humble heart and a bold voice, according to my God-given design of growing people deep in faith and transformed in everyday life; to be a part of God’s worldwide present-day revi8val across the cultures of this country and the world.

In His Service,

Pastor Jim Glynn