Staff Bios

Dr. Garrett Higbee is the founder and President of Twelve Stones Ministries, Inc. (TS). He is also the Director of the Harvest Bible Chapel Biblical Counseling Ministry.

Garrett was trained as a clinical psychologist specializing in marriage and family counseling. In 1995 he left that field after 15 years of working in hospitals, residential, and private practice. It was at that time Dr. Higbee had a radical change of heart as God showed him that true hope and help for man’s most profound problems are found in Christ and His Word. He then joined a residential ministry for youth as clinical director.

Four years later Garrett was called to be on staff at College Park Church in Indianapolis where he grew to have a passion for the church and its responsibility for soul care. In 2004 he founded Twelve Stones Ministries, a short-term, biblically based residential counseling ministry whose mission is “to return soul care to the church.”

Garrett is a frequent conference speaker for Faith Biblical Counseling Ministries, NANC training conferences, and church based biblical counseling conferences around the country. He also serves as a visiting professor at Southern Seminary and Faith Baptist Seminary.

He currently resides in the Chicago area with his wife Tammy and their 3 children.

Dr. James MacDonald has committed his whole life to proclaiming the truth of God’s transforming power. As a pastor, author, radio Bible teacher, speaker, friend, and family man, James ignites a bold passion for God in every avenue of influence.

He’s most at home in the pulpit at Harvest Bible Chapel in the northwest Chicago suburbs, ministering to a growing flock of God’s people on multiple campuses, now 12,000 strong. James is founding and senior pastor of this church based on the priority of prayer, boldness in evangelism, spirit-filled worship and unapologetic proclamation of God’s Word. Additionally, Harvest has launched 39 thriving new churches in the U.S. and abroad. He also writes an e-newsletter called, I've Been Thinking. You can also find out the latest about James at his blog.

James’ teaching, which emphasizes the precise exposition of God’s Word and its practical life application, can be heard on Walk in the Word , a daily 30-minute radio program heard on nearly 800 outlets across North America. Walk in the Word’s mission is to ignite passion in the people of God through the proclamation of truth. For more information, visit the Walk in the Word Web site.

James also regularly speaks at Bible and pastor’s conferences throughout the world and hosts a ministry leadership conference called, Straight Up: Engaging in Ministry God Energizes .

James has authored the following books:

I Really Want to Change . . . So, Help Me God (Moody, 2000)
Lord, Change My Attitude . . . Before It's Too Late (Moody, 2001)
Seven Words to Change Your Family (Moody, 2002)
God Wrote a Book (Crossway, 2002)
Gripped by the Greatness of God (Moody, 2005)
Downpour: He Will Come to Us Like the Rain (Broadman & Holman, 2006)
Ancient Wisdom (Broadman & Holman, 2007)
The Way of Wisdom (Walk in the Word, 2007)

And has contributed to the following publications: Preaching Today, Worship Leader, Leadership Journal, and now monthly to Our Journey, the daily devotional from Walk in the Word.

Born in London, Ontario in 1960, James received a D.Min. from Phoenix Seminary with his doctoral research in the area of ministry to men which was developed into a curriculum called Men at War, helping men in self-disclosure of personal sin based upon James 5:16.

James and his wife Kathy married in 1983, have three children, and reside in the northwest suburbs of Chicago.

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