Tom works from his home near St. Louis, Missouri, as a senior writer and editor for the Good News magazine and church booklets. He is also the managing editor of World News and Prophecy and The Good News Bible Reading Program, as well as a copy editor for Vertical Thought.
Tom began attending God's Church at the age of 16 in 1985 and was baptized a year later. He attended Ambassador College in both Texas and California and served for a year as a history teacher at the college's overseas project in Sri Lanka. He graduated from the Texas campus in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts in theology along with minors in English and mass communications. Since 1994, he has been employed as an editor and writer for church publications and has served in local congregations through the regular preaching of sermons.
Tom currently attends the Columbia/Fulton, Missouri, congregation of the United Church of God with his wife Donna and their two young children.