Pastor Jim Richwine Goodbye Luncheon and Memories
On April 7, 2024 Mount Airy Presbyterian Church hosted a goodbye luncheon for our much loved interim Pastor Jim Richwine and his wife Brooke (and Brooke's service dog Cricket). In March of 2022 the church contacted Interim Pastor Ministries (IPM) to provide an interim Pastor to help us to find a new Senior Pastor. Jim came to us in April of 2022 and served the church by providing leadership through the transition process, training, teaching, and setting an inspiring example. When Sam Hettinger accepted the call to be pastor, Jim (literally) handed over the batton to Sam and they moved back to Ohio to prepared to serve another church in transition. Whatever church that will be, will be very blessed.
About Jim and Brooke
Jim and his wife, Brooke, met at Messiah College where they each earned their BA, and were married a few years later. The have two sons who were born while Jim was a still a student at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia. They have 9 grandchildren – 7 granddaughters, 1 grandson, and one unknown yet, to be born in July.
Jim has served as the founder and Executive Director of a Christian counseling center in western PA, as an assistant minister at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Florida, and pastored churches in Calgary, Alberta, Brevard NC, and Alabama. He has also served as a professor of Systematic Theology for Birmingham Theological Seminary, and taught graduate level classes in Trinidad and Malawi, and he and Brooke have led numerous foreign short term mission trips.
Jim enjoys playing ping pong, playing golf with his son a few times a year, and watching many other sporting events. Both Jim and Brooke enjoy spending time with their grandchildren, viewing various preachers and teachers on the internet, and learning how to love each other and other Christians with the kind of love Jesus has modeled for us.
