The pastor wrote in his “The Voice” bio that “He comes to ‘The Voice’ to prove to his kids that it is never too late to follow your dreams.”
According to their website, New Life Church is currently holding in-person gatherings outdoors and enforcing social distancing and mask wearing, but earlier in the year when Pastor Ranger was preparing to audition for “The Voice,” the church had only been gathering digitally. He commented on how the situation helped him prepare for the show’s cameras: “I kind of had some preparation going. Starting back in mid-March we stopped doing our in person gatherings. You know, not being too bogged out or weirded out by cameras or trying to talk to somebody without having their immediate response. That’s a really odd thing to do.”
Jim’s parents, James and Lydia Ranger, are the Lead Pastors at New Life Church. On the church’s website it states that Pastor James is helping pioneer the mission of women in leadership. Jim shares his role as campus pastor with his wife Camilla.
Pastors advancing and even winning “The Voice” is nothing new; in fact, just last season Team Blake’s Pastor Todd Tilghman was named champion of season 18.
