Jim Bramer's "Bio" & related info 0001-01 ZZall

Jim Bramer's "Bio" & related info 0001-01 ZZall

James R. Bramer

2628 E. Goshen Ave, Fresno, CA 93720 -- Filtered (1) phone number: 1 559 298 5507
Email Address -- Jim@bcidot.org

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                            TO: Whom it May Interest                                                                                                                    FROM: Jim Bramer
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                             RE: My Personal "Bio"                                                                                                              Originated in September 1999

Family

   My dear wife Bettie; please Click Here and Here for more information about the celebration of our 50th and 55th wedding anniversaries. In 1994 Bettie retired from the "Biola University's Bookstore" after more than 27 years. In April 2009 she retired (again) after working part-time for over 7 years as a Church Secretary.
       We have four children and their spouses who now live in the following general areas: Salem, ORE, Modesto, CAL, and Sacramento, CAL; nine grand-sons, two grand-daughters (one is now a full-time Missionary with Campus Crusade for Christ) and beginning in 2006 we have grand-daughters in law. We are great grand-parents as of August 2007. Please Click Here and view pictures of our grandson's 2008 "Naval Academy" graduation and commissioning.

Background and Vocation

       In 1952 I graduated from High School in La Grande, ORE (located in Eastern Oregon not too far from the Washington and Idaho borders) and immediately went to "Kinman Business University" in Spokane, WASH until I went into the U. S. Army and served mostly in the "Army Finance Division" at Ft. Lewis, Washington until 1956, I became a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in 1960 while working mostly for CPA firms in the Spokane, WASH area.   In l963 we moved from Spokane to the Southern CAL area where I served "Biola University" (1) as Comptroller until 1968 when I returned to public accounting.
        Ultimately I became the founding partner of the Southern CAL CPA firm of "Bramer, Corsello and Vander Spek."   After some 20 years I amicably left this CPA firm and began serving ONLY Evangelical Christ-Centered Ministries by myself as an Auditor-CPA.
        After living more than 30 years in the La Mirada Southern CA  area (almost next to Biola University), we followed some of our family and moved to the Fresno, Central CAL area in 1994.    During retirement in 1999 I started the Ministry Finance Team Helps web site and then in 2006 a Spending Controls sister web site. In 2008 this Brad's Nest of Bees web site go under way.
        Please Click Here for more information as how I function today as a "Auditor-CPA" who is retired, but virtually as would a Missionary with a vocational and Online thrust.  My major Ministry emphasis is to maximize the resources of the Internet and web services plus allied Computer system resources for the use of Christ-Centered Entities (primarily Small Ministries who handle some $500.000 per annum or less but also some Christian Family Units - CFUs) as they righteously manage their finances. A major resource in doing this is what I call the eFINFAX accounting system. I do NOT do tax returns or provide CPA audit, or attestation, services.   Please Click Here for information about my current paid assignment as a Helper to a local good sized church.   If interested, you can also Go Here for more information about some other services that I provide. I have done some writing and public speaking on these topics.

Other Important Issues

       I became a BLVR when I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior as a teenager in La Grande, ORE (Click Here for more information about my becoming a BLVR) while attending a Conservative Baptist Church there. Since then, I have been part of such Churches where I have served in various capacities; our Conservative Baptist church home now is "Riverpark Bible Church" in Fresno, CAL.
        I served on the Board and as Treasurer of the "Evangelical Christian Credit Union - "ECCU" in Southern CAL for most of 1980s.

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Originated in September 1999:   Updated: January 03, 2010

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