Creative to Reflect His Creator<\/b><\/p>\n
When you listen to Jim Stevenson\u2019s story, it\u2019s easy to wonder, \u201cIs there anything this guy can\u2019t do?\u201d His first career move was a straightaway into the fast-paced and frenetic world of NASCAR, then Indy Car, racing, where he secured sponsorships from big-name companies and corporations.<\/span><\/p>\n Jim is also a singer-songwriter who recorded albums and performed 40-50 gigs a year as one-half of a soft rock duo with Tim Farrel. One of the high points was opening for legendary rock band Chicago when they performed at the Polaris Amphitheater (now Germain Amphitheater) in Columbus, Ohio.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And now in his latest adventure, Jim co-founded and serves as Director of the International Center for Creativity (ICC) in Dublin, Ohio, which houses the last two years of Cedarville\u2019s Innovative and Industrial Design (IID) program. ICC offers a nontraditional learning space where junior and senior IID students let their minds soar, imagining out-of-the-box transformative solutions to real-world problems.<\/span><\/p>\n On the side, just because God has gifted Jim with a creative and dexterous mind, he and ICC co-founder Tom Balliet built and then designed the interior of a retreat home on Mt. Desert Island in Maine.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTo be creative, you need to know the Creator,\u201d Jim shares during the podcast. \u201cOur biggest challenge is to make sure we\u2019re building kingdom builders, and they can use their creativity and their innovation to reflect Him, to be creative image-bearers of God.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n