Tom was born in San Diego, before freeways even existed in the state. After high school, he joined the US Marine Corps and served his country in Vietnam. Upon his military service discharge, he went back to school and earned a B.A. Degree in Business Administration from California State University, Fullerton. He has worked in the real estate and insurance industries for almost four decades.
At the age of 40, after years of living in darkness and “chasing after the wind,” Tom was drawn to seek God out to change his life. “What I learned from hearing and reading God’s Word was that I was a sinner, a God-hater, who desperately needed to get reconciled with my Creator. Now the most important person in my life is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ whom has blessed me with a new and wonderful life in Him.” He has blessed Tom with a wonderful wife, Marcia, for now more than 20 years. They have two sweet girls, Ashley and Lindsey. And have inherited a son-in-law, Tim Rogers, Lindsey’s husband.
Over these many years of being blessed by God, Tom has grown in his knowledge of the Word and in his desire to serve Jesus. Since 2006, Tom has served in the jail ministry for the Riverside County Sheriff Department at the Southwest Detention Center in Murrieta. “My passion is to share the gospel with the inmates in jail- so they may learn the Truth of our Lord and Savior and know that with Jesus Christ there is forgiveness of sin (1 John 1:9), hope (Titus 2:13) and eternal life (John 3:36).”