Rev. Jim Atwood

Jim Atwood was the Pastor of the Wallace Presbyterian Church, Wallace, North Carolina for five years before he and his wife, Roxana, went to Japan as missionaries with the United Church of Christ. After nine years, they returned to the States where Jim was called to be the Pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church of Springfield, Virginia. In 1984, he became Pastor of Trinity Presbyterian in Arlington from which he retired in 1999. He was moved to join the CSGV board after a charter member of Grace Church was shot and killed by a robber with a Saturday Night Special. He is also a member of the National Committee of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and Heeding God’s Call of Greater Washington.