PT received his Doctor of Ministry from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary. He and Leighann are blessed with three grown children and two granddaughters. Tom prefers playing sports more than watching; he enjoys playing softball with his TSC buddies and waterskiing barefoot. His life motto is to “fail forward. We all fail, just be sure that when you do fail, you learn something. Then you’ll be a little further along than before you failed.”