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Who’s who at St James - Staff

Kim Swithinbank

Vicar

Kim has been Vicar at St James since February 2008. Before that he and his wife Penelope spent five and a half years living in the US. For three years they were both on staff at the Falls Church, in Northern Virginia, part of Metropolitan Washington DC. Latterly they lived in South Carolina while Kim travelled extensively working for Alpha USA.

Early ministry in England included 12 years as Rector at St Georges Stamford, time as Director of Evangelism at All Souls Langham Place, a brief Chaplaincy at Monkton Combe School and a first Curacy in Norwich. His first book "The Natural Touch", on personal evangelism was published in 1988. A new book on "Integrating Alpha into the Church" is due to be published in 2009.

Outside of church life Kim and Penelope enjoy their transatlantic family, three married children, two living in London with their spouses and one in Virginia. They are all producing grandchildren as if they are going out of fashion. As church and family allow, Kim spends most of the rest of the time on the golf course, watching sport or going to the theatre or cinema. As a Spurs fan since 1961 (year of the double), he finally gets to go and see some games!

Gaz Daly

Curate

• Baptisms, weddings (marriage courses), and funerals
• Prayer ministry
• Main link with St James School.

Gaz has been Curate at St James since July 2009, having studied for 2 years at Wycliffe Hall in Oxford.  Married to Susie they have 4 children, aged 8 and under, including one born in June 2009.

London is very much home for Gaz, having lived in London since 1982, even living in Crouch End in the mid 1980’s.  More recently as a family they have lived in Vauxhall, attending St James the Less in Pimlico for many years, where Gaz and Susie ran a home group, prayer ministry and helped with a weekly meal for the homeless.

Previous work has included being a Director of a charity, fundraiser and actor. In each of these professions Gaz has learnt much about himself and other people.

As well as being passionate about his family, and people, Gaz is a keen cyclist and skier and enjoys owning and driving his 1972 Volvo.

Peterson Feital

Curate – Youth and Evangelism

Peterson Feital is originally from Brazil and has been an evangelist for 17 years. He worked as a mission and discipleship adviser for large churches in Brazil and was a Bible lecturer at a Baptist University.  He is also a conference speaker.

In the UK he has worked with the Methodist Church and Anglican church and under his ministry here, has planted ‘Something Else’  - fresh expressions of Church  He is the founder of ‘Leap of Faith Ministry’, a social network for Christian artists. He has worked as a chaplain for people in the creative industries, where he has successfully planted various initiatives.

He trained to be an Ordained Pioneer Minister at Ridley Hall, where he was part of the  development and training process for ‘Pioneers in the Church of England. While there, he completed his research on ‘The Ugly Duckling Syndrome – The Problem of Individualism in Christian Communities’, which is due to be published in 2012.

Jim Salladin

Associate Vicar – Discipleship

• Teaching, preaching and assisting the Vicar

Jim Salladin is originally from Los Angeles, USA.  He studied in Chicago, working mainly in the mortgage industry in Los Angeles.

He then studied for the ministry and was a vicar in Vancouver for nearly 7 years.

He thinks that marrying Amber was best decision of his life and is delighted to have a great son called Caleb.