Tom Short

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

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

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. 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". web.archive.org. March 1, 2005.
  6. "www.wcchurch.org - Our History". Retrieved 2007-03-18.
  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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