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Jim Rosengarten

Jim Rosengarten: Philadelphia Delaware Valley Region Jim’s devotion to his family keeps him grounded and helps him to appreciate the opportunity to be with others as they prepare to celebrate life’s most significant moments. Born in Indiana, Jim moved to Newark, NJ, in the eighties to serve for two years as a Jesuit Volunteer. Earning a whopping $85/month while teaching reading/language arts and coaching basketball at an alternative junior high school in the city, Jim fell in love with teaching – and the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. He moved to Philadelphia to work with the east coast branch of JVC, then got back into teaching after some graduate work at Temple and Arcadia (before its name change). He met his wife in the early nineties while teaching and working as the assistant director of a school for students with emotional issues. Since 2000, Jim has taught history and English at a Quaker school in the Philadelphia area where he also serves as chair of the history department. Each of these various places has continued to reaffirm Jim’s sense of the particular joy and challenge of teaching as well as the gift and importance of being present to others in a unique way.

Jim is funny and possesses a quick and playful sense of humor, qualities which are most helpful, not just in his family life, but his teaching profession and in his work with couples and families through Journeys of the Heart. He is also a talented juggler and not just of work and family but of bowling pins, knives, eggs and fire (okay, not fire but maybe someday) His devotion to his wife and three young daughters makes him uniquely attuned to the importance of honoring the gifts and talents of women and to working for equality to all people. Jim credits his lifelong Catholic heritage with instilling within him a love of ritual and a commitment to social justice. Jim believes that he can best honor his own marriage by believing that all citizens deserve the rights, responsibilities and joys that it brings.

Dear Jim, I wanted to take a moment to say thank you for making the "formal" part of the day so wonderful and intimate. I must admit I was a little skeptical at first, but John and Andi both seemed so confident in you after they met you last winter, I had to trust their judgment. They were absolutely correct in their faith in you. Your ability to blend humor, making it personal, yet not losing sight of the seriousness of the event - including the spiritual side - just added to the specialness of the day. Your presence is and will always be a wonderful part of the memories we hold of the day. Thank you again and I hope that you continue this service for those of us that just do not fit into the traditional religious mold. It is reassuring to know that alternatives do exist. Thank you again and it was a pleasure to meet you. With sincerest regards, Pat Larson (Mother of the Bride)

Besides hanging out with his family Jim, a Great Books major in college, also loves to read an eclectic mix of non-fiction and fiction from Thucydides (his dweeby side) to Dostoyevsky (who doesn’t love Brothers Karamazov?) to George Saunders (hilarious and twisted). He loves playing basketball and is forever grateful to his wife for allowing his Monday night game to be held sacred on the family calendar. He also enjoys running anywhere outside and green (treadmills put him in a mind-numbing stupor which is all too easy for him to do without their help) and going snorkeling in the beautiful blue-green waters of the Caribbean. As to the latter, despite the family’s plans and schemes, those trips don’t happen nearly as often as they would wish.

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