He served for a decade as the President of the Great Commission Network, an evangelical organization with the ELCA. He has been active among renewal circles of the mainline churches. He is the director of Stepping Into Eternity Publishing & Ministry in St. Paul, MN. Tom is the author of Stepping Into Eternity-Encountering Jesus as the Moment of Death; Tabitha and the Treacherous Tiger; To the Point Biblical Truth Visual Primers. He has also developed and marketed several inventions for outdoorsmen.