Jim Gentle The Bucket Ministry

Jim Gentle

https://thebucketministry.org/meet-the-team/

Jim was born in 1956 the second son of a young US Air Force
family and moved many times as his Dad transferred from one assignment to another .

Having to make new friends from so many different backgrounds pointed the way to a career in sales . In fact his first sales job started at the age of 6 when he walked the county roads going door to door selling greeting cards.

A commission check was a great motivator to learn the skill set needed to become more than your brothers or friends thought possible . It turned out to be the providence of God at work .

He and his wife got married right after high school . Three kids , five grandkids and just short of 50 years together . Guess the sales skills came in handy .

In 1989 Jim started in automobile sales , loved it and made it a career lasting 31 years . Funny thing , it wasn’t about a love for cars, it was a love for people that created that career .

Searching for a way to create significance over success God led him to The Bucket Ministry . He started out making donations but God had a bigger vision . Pastor Matt asked him to join a mission trip to Kenya.

“Next thing I knew I was out of the boat and standing in Nairobi Kenya . I had always dreamed of the chance to go to Africa but it never included the Kibera Slum . “

That trip changed everything .

He just came back from the Kenya Extreme Expedition and is headed to Kenya again in March and July of 2024 .

“I like to think of this as being in service to the KIng ” Being in fealty to the KIng means to do as He commands , go when He says to go and give it your best daily . The plan of the King laid out for you before the foundation of the earth will be greater than you could ever imagine” !

As Dave McDonald says : Have the courage needed to just get out of the boat !

Favorite Verse:
“For I know the plans that I have for you declares the Lord , plans for prosperity and not for disaster , to give you a future and a hope . “ -Jeremiah 29:11

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