Chambers, Reverend Dr Jim Bernard Biography 1991

CHAMBERS, Rev Dr Jim Bernard
Minister, Congregational Church
Born Napier, 18 February 1919, son of William Robert George Chambers and Frances Elizabeth (née Tucker); married Marcelle Jeanne Connor, daughter of John Condie and Marthe Jeanne Amélie Connor, 1945; three sons one daughter.
Education: Nelson Park Primary School, Napier; Napier Boys High School, Congregational College, NZ; Auckland University, Otago University, Bachelor of Arts 1945, Master of Arts 1947; World University, Hon SPhD, 1983; American Congregational Center, ThD 1985; Piedmont College, USA, Hon DD, 1986. Assistant Minister, Congregational Churches, New Lynn, 1940-1942, Beresford Street, Auckland, 1943; ordained 1945; Minister: Ravensbourne and Port Chalmers 1944-1950; Timaru 1950-1954, Karori 1954-1959, Maungaturoto 1959-1963, Cambridge Terrace, Wellington 1963-1982, 1988 -; Chairman, Otago, Canterbury and Wellington Districts, Congregational Union of NZ; Chairman, Congregational Union of NZ, 1952-1953, 1966-1968, 1969-1979, 1982-1986; Chairman Emeritus 1986 -; Senior Congregational Chaplain, NZ Defence Forces, 1983-1985.  Reg Chaplain, Girls Brigade, Otago 1949-1950, Wellington 1965-1967; Member, NZ Executive NZ Marching Association, 1955-1959, 1963-1979, President 1967-1977, Life Member; Senior Chaplain NZ Order of St Luke, 1965-1969; Secretary for the Pacific, Hong Kong, South Korea, India, International Congregational Fellowship, 1979 -.
Publications: The Karori Congregational Church 1842-1956, 1956; Hands Can Heal, 1958; Is Any Sick Among You?, 1962; To God be the Glory, 1965; The Cambridge Terrace Congregational Church 1877-1967; A Peculiar People (History of the Congregational Union of NZ), 1984;
Editor, The NZ Marching Association The Bulletin, 1965-1977, and Quickstep, 1977-1979.
Sports: Boxing: NZ Universities Blue 1941 and 1946; South Canterbury Football Association, Rep 1950-1954, Life Member 1954.
Address: 29 Alexander Road, Raumati Beach.