J A Y M I C H A E L

L O U C K S

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LaPorte, IN 46350 USA

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Christian Pastor with extensive experience attending to spiritual and emotional needs of church members. Skilled in recruiting and training volunteers for ministry. Background includes founding and conducting programs for finding hurting people and helping them take their next step with Jesus Christ.

SKILLS

Excellent in working with volunteers. Teaching

Community service: provide 70 tons of

food yearly to our community.

Prepare talks: Preaching and Teaching

are my greatest strengths.

Counseling: Pastoral counseling. Encourage spirituality: I have been trained and participate in teaching

spiritual formation from Dallas Willard

Ministries

Oversee services: Launched a ministry

in Haiti that has seven churches and is

currently feeding 3500 children each

day, with no paid staff. I have led 60

short term missions trips to Haiti.

Motivation: I have an insatiable desire to

encourage both staff and volunteers to

strive for excellence.

EXPERIENCE

Chaplain Assistant, La Porte Hospital, Jan 2002 Sep 2020, LaPorte, IN Served as a volunteer on call chaplain for several years and then was brought on as paid staff. As a chaplain I had the honor of helping patients and their families in crisis through counseling and prayer and presence. I am particularly proud of the ministry where I was honored to work with OB to perform baptisms and funeral services in the event of the death of an unborn child.

Senior Pastor, Lambs Chapel Church, Jun 2001 Sep 2020, LaPorte, IN Helped to grow an existing congregation of 25 to 300 in attendance. Planted a new church with the same principles of finding hurting people and helping them take their next step with Christ, that is currently worshipping with 300 people. Pipefitter Journeyman, Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 172, Jan 1977 Mar 2015, South Bend, IN

I have decades of experience in job-site and office supervision. I was the owner of Loucks Plumbing and Heating for ten years until my responsibilities at the growing church JL

became too great.

EDUCATION

60 credit hours in Pastoral Ministry

Bethel University Mishawaka, IN

I have not received my bachelor's degree but I have in addition to these college credits 10 years of schooling in the UMC Local Pastor's School. And probably most importantly 20 years of studying for and writing weekly over 1000 weekly sermons. I have also published two devotional books titled, "Blue Collar Jesus."

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