Rev. Dr. Jim Stout is an ordained Presbyterian minister. He has pastored five churches: three as a senior pastor and two as an associate.

His ministry experience includes working with college and graduate students at Miami, Harvard, MIT, Boston and Northeastern Universities, social work with Young Life's outreach to teenage gangs in New York City, and being student chaplain to the men's violent ward at Danvers State Mental Hospital in Massachusetts.

Dr. Stout has taught and written on stress, burnout, manic depression, depression, job/career/educational transition, marriage enrichment, parenting, work fulfillment, and refocusing for the second half of life.

He has spoken in such diverse locations as college campuses, professional football and baseball locker rooms, executive boardrooms, camps, retreat centers, and churches.

Since 1965 he has career counseled more than 7,000 individuals. He has organized and led support groups for men, women, mentally ill persons and their family members, high school, college, and graduate students, teenage gang members, athletes, and people in career transition.

In 2001, Dr. Stout was given NAMI California's "Distinguished Clergy Award" for his efforts on behalf of those affected by mental illness. He is listed in Marquis' "Who's Who in the West", "Who's Who in Religion", and the 1973 volume of "Outstanding Young Men of America".

He has been married to the former Leah Ann Hayden since 1967. They have two sons, Jim, Jr. and John.

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