The Reverend Jim Watford is Trinity’s pastor. He is a native of Charlotte, where many of his family members still reside. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and Yale University. His son, Chris, lives and works in Hudson, New York.

Jim has served several churches in the Western North Carolina Conference, Broadway Presbyterian Church in New York City, and has worked as well as an administrator at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Hebrews 12:15 reads, “See to it that no one misses the grace of God….”  This verse sums up Jim’s mission in ministry and provides the framework for much of his preaching and worship.