James's Background

Rev. James G. Layton is a graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, Massachusetts.

He was the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Wolcott , New York, during the decade of the 1970s. In the early '80s, Jim was a writer/producer in Washington, D.C. for The Genesis Project, which dramatized the Bible on film. He also became a media consultant to groups like Prison Fellowship. From 1985 to 1993, he interpreted mission outreach and provided stewardship education for approximately 400 congregations of the American Baptist Churches of Pennsylvania and Delaware and the Philadelphia Baptist Association.

From the mid-1990s to the present, Jim has been a communications consultant to non-profit organizations in the Greater Philadelphia area, like the Foundation and American Baptist International Ministries.