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Jim is the youngest of five children born to Carl and Hazel Seiberling. He attended Maranatha Open Bible Church until his family began attending Bethel Open
Bible Church when he was in the seventh grade. Jim became a Christian at an early age while at youth church summer camp.
He and his siblings were raised with “drug problems”. They were drug to church every Sunday and also were drug to Blackwood Brothers Quartet concerts
just about any/every time they appeared at the KRNT Theater or Hoyt Sherman Auditorium in Des Moines. As you might guess, Jim was fascinated by the bass singer.
Jim is thankful that his parents adhered to God’s directive in Proverbs 22:6 which says “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old,
he will not depart from it,” since the aforementioned “drug problem” had a profound impact on his life.
Jim is a 1977 graduate of East High School in Des Moines, where he met a young lady who would eventually become (and still is) his lovely wife. Jim is very
thankful for the support his family has provided with regard to his HHQ activities. A lot of time and energy is devoted to the group.
When not involved in HHQ activities, Jim enjoys spending time with family as well as hunting (especially with bow and arrow), fishing, bicycling, traveling, and
camping.
Over the years Jim has sung the bass part with numerous groups — The Blackwood Brothers, Stamps Quartet, Bill Gaither Trio, Lanny Wolfe Trio, Cathedrals,
Legacy Five, Signature Sound, Oak Ridge Boys, Statler Brothers, etc.. Of course, since no member of any of these groups was ever in the car and/or shower with
Jim as he was singing along with their LPs, 8-tracks, cassettes or cds, it is rather unlikely that any of them would know his name if ever they heard it!
In the past, Jim also sang on stage at the Reiman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee -- as did everyone else in the group of tourists he was with that day.
Actually, due to a severe case of stage fright, Jim would rarely sing in public prior to the formation of HHQ. However, Jim eventually began to feel God
calling/leading him to form a quartet to spread His word through song. Although he still gets nervous, and doesn’t say much while on stage, Jim has learned
to trust God to provide the strength to do His will.
The rest, as they say, is history.
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