Dr. Jim Renihan

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1995 - 1998

Dr. Jim Renihan, his wife, Lynne, and their children began attending Heritage Baptist Church in July 1994. Beginning with the first Lord's Day of January 1995, Jim taught Sunday School, and was asked to begin preaching on a regular basis at the end of May 1995. Jim served as organizing pastor of the church, working closely with his good friend Harry Maples. In 1998, the family moved to Escondido California where Jim serves as Dean and Professor of Historical Theology at the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies. He is an elder at Escondido Reformed Baptist Church. Jim and Lynne have 5 children and 1.5 grandchildren. Jim has served as a pastor in churches in Massachusetts, New York and California. He received his Master of Divinity degree from Seminary of the East in Worcester, and his Ph.D. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.