James and his wife, Marsha, founded Watered Gardens Ministries in Joplin, Missouri, in 2000, now a 105-bed mission working with the homeless and poor. He currently serves as the mission's executive director. James also founded the True Charity Initiative in 2012 to champion a movement of privately funded effective charity at the most local level.
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