Quick Info about Tom:
Job at Crossroads: Lead Pastor

Family: married to Lisa since 1990; kids, Josh (born in 1996) and Emma Katie (born in 1998); a pet Bearded Dragon named Monty Python Walsh
 

Hometown: Vernon, CT

Favorite Podcasts:
  • Mars Hill Sermon Audio
  • Mosaic
  • Socrates in the City
  • Let My People Think (RZIM)
  
  Education and Experiences:
  • Diploma in Missiology (International Ministries and Anthropology), Moody Bible Institute
  • Diploma in Bible, Word of Life Bible Institute
  • Youth Pastor, Oak Lawn Church, Southside of Chicago
  • Zone Pastor, Northport Baptist Church, Long Island, NY
  • Co-Pastor and Church Planter, New River Community Church, South Windsor, CT
  • Missions Teaching in Belarus, Nicaragua, and Republic of Congo
  • Missionary Internship, Amazon Delta of Brazil
  • U.S. Coast Guard, Marine Law Enforcement, Anti-Submarine Warfare, Search and Rescue, and scrubbing toilets (click here to see a picure of Tom's boat)
  
  Recent Favorite Reading: The Barbarian Way by Erwin McManus, Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, anything by Malcolm Gladwell, The Rainmaker by John Grisham, Faith by Phil Pringle, Present Future by Reggie McNeal, Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller, and any of the Harry Bosch stories by Michael Connelly

Heroes: D.L. Moody, St. Patrick (the real guy, not the leprechaun), Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Olaudah Equiano (escaped slave and adventurer), Gen. Matthew Ridgeway, Mother Teresa, Capt. Richard Winters, Easy Company 506th PIR, any guy that went onto the towers on 9/11

Weird Factoid: I was rear-ended twice...at the same intersection in Manchester, CT...seventeen years apart (I don't go there anymore, and neither should you!!!) 		  Guilty Pleasures: watching episodes of Band of Brothers and The Office, microbrews (just one at a time, guys), venti lattes extra hot, and buying cool shoes I don't really need

Favorite Music: I'm a classic rocker. Of course I love worship music like Passion Worship Band, Burlap to Cashmere, and Third Day...but my iPod has about 6GB of Pink Floyd, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Blues Traveler, Cream, Rush, Collective Soul, and the Police. I like it loud.

Favorite Movies: Blues Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, Amistad, Young Frankenstein, Breaker Morant, and The Shawshank Redemption

Prized Possessions: a 24-year-old pair of Chippewa boots (nicely oiled), a custom-fit dive mask, a Makarov .380, a Canon EOS Rebel Xti, a claddagh ring Lisa gave me for our 15th anniversary 		 

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