Jim Boesch is one of the first persons to be certified as a men’s ministry specialist.

After completing training sessions with Orlando-based Man in the Mirror, Boesch engaged in courses in United Methodist polity and history, safe sanctuary training, and hands-on experience in men’s ministry in a local church, He was certified as a men’s ministry specialist in 2009.

Jim has taught adult-education classes in local churches, and he has equipped church members to lead discipling experiences, Bible studies and Sunday school classes.

As a nationally certified trainer and facilitator of learning, he helped the commission place courses on United Methodist History and Doctrine on the web so others training to become men’s ministry specialists would be able to take the course on line.

In recent years, Jim has also been active in the delivery of the “Understanding Men’s Ministry” discipleship training for clergy and lay leaders in the Florida and West Ohio annual conferences.