Jim Bean

Jim Bean lives in Idaho with his soulmate and wife, Kristina Bean and their miniature Schnauzer, Tootsie.

Jim is a licensed ordain minister and was a Law-Enforcement Community Chaplain for Sacramento, California. He spent eight years working with motorcycle gangs with his own ministry, United In Christ, in Sacramento. He spent nine years at a major prison in Idaho, teaching and working with the prisoners sharing the gospel.

Jim was born in 1940 in a world that was going into a world war. He grew up in a family that came out of the great depression. He witnessed how families were back then. They did whatever it took to make a living, sometimes it was what came out of the garden and whatever you could hunt for, fish, venison or foul, that’s what would be on the table for dinner.

Jobs were extremely hard to find. Some people only made a dollar an hour. His parents along with his mother's two brothers and two sisters. They worked together so they could survive. His father, uncles and grandfather's were loggers and deep gold miners, from the Great Depression. Those were hard times for a little boy to grow up in. He witnessed love and kindness and death, at an early age but, he also experienced something else, an encounter with God at age 7, that he still talks about today.

Something told him that there was a God over the years in his own little way. He would see all the things that God made, and take them to heart. He loves the mountains, he loves the rivers, he loves to hunt, fish, camp out and he loves to look up at the stars late at night, just to be close to God. He did all this growing up before he ever became a born again Christian.

Now at 84 years of age, his mind travels over all those years to be able now to start writing about what he saw and experienced. What a different world it is now. People sit in the house, on their iPhone or computer or virtual reality and never see the beauty around them, that I experienced. It's a sadness. It hurts my heart if we throw away our history or what we experienced to share to our grandchildren, think about that! The world will be lost in a vacuum of technology.