Staff Team
Jim Houston Pastoral Care Pastor
What is your job at Brook Hills?
Individual, Pre-Marital & Marital Counseling, Hospital Visits, Weddings, Funerals, & Family Assistance
What is your favorite part of your job?
Pre-Marital Counseling
How & when did you first come to Brook Hills?
Came to Brook Hills in 1994 to visit my daughter. While visiting, God impressed upon me that Brook Hills is where I was to serve Him. Two years later my wife and I moved to Birmingham following God’s direction, and I came on staff in February 1995.
Where are you from?
Gadsden, Alabama
Who is in your family?
Wife - Donna
Daughter - Jamie Labello (husband- Brian and their daughter Brianna)
Daughter - Jana Lombardo (husband- Luke and their 2 sons Eli and Gideon)
Please provide a short testimony about your relationship with Christ?
I was saved at the age of 8 years old and baptized soon after that. God called me to serve Him full time as a senior in high school. My relationship with Him continues to grow daily. I have served on church staff for 48 years. In each one of these years, I have seen God work in my heart and life to draw me closer to Him.
What’s your favorite Bible verse?
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. Colossians 3:12
What is the best place you have ever visited?
Machu Pichu, Peru
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Birmingha, Alabama
“I recommend…”
LSU football
These are a few of my favorite things…
steak, snickers, the Bible, Braveheart, family, & college football