Tom Short

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Tom Short
Tom Short on a college campus
Tom Short on a college campus
BornUnited States
Occupationcampus evangelist
NationalityAmerican
SubjectChristian apologetics
Literary movementGreat Commission church movement
Website
www.tomthepreacher.com

Tom Short is an American traveling campus evangelist who lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Career[]

Campus evangelism[]

Tom Short was ordained in 1977 by elders of The "Blitz" Movement at Solid Rock Church (now Linworth Road Church) in Columbus, Ohio.[1] Missionaries of the movement at the time operated by filling buses with people, musical instruments and tracts in order to execute a 2- or 3-day campus blitz. They used singing, intensive tract distribution and organized sidewalk canvassing to draw impromptu crowds and to achieve saturation of the intellectual marketplace.[2] By 1980, Short began preaching on campuses while stationed at a church in College Park, Maryland, becoming a fixture outside the Hornbake Library on the University of Maryland campus.[1][3][4]

In 2004, Tom Short spoke in a non-debate forum along with Jamal Badawi, a renowned Islamic scholar at Iowa State University. The two featured speakers presented their religions' view of Jesus and answered questions in the forum, co-sponsored by Islam on Campus and the local Great Commission Churches student group.[5]

Pastoral work[]

Short briefly served as pastor of Woodstock Community Church in Roswell, Georgia in 1990 while conducting services in the Roswell Holiday Inn,[6] and then moved to San Diego to pastor MountainView Community Church.[7][6]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Pierrette J. Shields (October 24, 1997). "Students debate with pastor". The Missouri State University Maneater. Archived from the original on September 29, 2000. Retrieved 2007-03-21. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ John Hopler (Herschel Martindale, guest speaker) (2006-12-30). Church planting and the 'ordinary' Christian (Speech). central Missouri. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-03-21.
  3. ^ Scott Rank (September 20, 2004). "COLUMN: You can't be neutral when it comes to Tom Short". The Iowa State Daily. Retrieved 2013-04-29.
  4. ^ Kasey Crill (October 27, 2005). "Evangelist shares message publicly". The North Texas Daily. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-21.
  5. ^ "Independent Florida Alligator - NEWS". March 1, 2005. Archived from the original on 2005-03-01.
  6. ^ a b "www.wcchurch.org - Our History". Retrieved 2007-03-18.[dead link]
  7. ^ William Hatfield (October 4, 1996). "Travelling pastor shouts scriptures about sin to crowd". The Southern Illinois at Carbondale Daily Egyptian. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved 2013-04-29. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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