James H. Pence - Christian Chalk Artist and Author

About James H. Pence & Tuppence Ministries

For over 30 years, Jim Pence has used music and art to share the gospel of Jesus Christ in churches, camps, and prisons across the United States.

In less than fifteen minutes, using a 7 foot tall easel and 3 inch lecturer's chalk, Jim draws a 3x4 foot picture while the audience watches. The climax of most drawings includes an "invisible" picture which is revealed by a black light. Coupled with his strong vocal/musical talents, Jim's chalk artistry has been used of God to bring many to Christ and to encourage many in the faith.

Jim is a 1978 graduate of Dallas Bible College, and a 2003 graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary. He has been in full-time ministry since 1978, and until recently served as pastor of Fellowship Bible Church in Greenville, Texas. In May of 2000 Jim felt that God was calling him to devote more time to prison ministry, so he resigned his pastorate of fifteen years and founded Tuppence Creative Ministries, an organization dedicated to evangelism and outreach through the arts. After five years of full time prison evangelism as a freelancer, in May of 2005 Jim joined the missions staff of Dallas’s First Baptist Church, where he now serves as the Director of Prison Ministries. In May of 2008, Jim stepped down from his position with First Baptist Dallas to devote more time to writing and to develop a new prison discipleship program: Inmate Bible Institute.

Jim's creative endeavors also extend to writing. He is the author of Blind Sight, a suspense/thriller novel that was published in May of 2003 by Tyndale House, Publishers. Jim has also written three books on Web authoring for Osborne/McGraw-Hill: How to Do Everything with HTML,  Cascading Style Sheets: A Beginner's Guide and How to Do Everything with HTML & XHTML. His most recent work, released in 2006,  is The Angel, a suspense-thriller set against the backdrop of the "right to die" movement.

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