Tom Short
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Tom Short | |
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 Tom Short on a college campus | |
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| Occupation | Campus Evangelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Subject | Christian apologetics |
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| www tomshort | |
Tom Short is an American traveling campus evangelist who lives in Columbus, Ohio.
Career
[edit | edit source]Campus evangelism
[edit | edit source]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]
In 2007, Tom founded a Nonprofit organization called Tom Short Campus Ministries.[6] Tom uses this ministry to fund his travel to college campuses where he open-air preaches.[7] Tom usually preaches on public college campuses in the free speech areas and will speak with anyone who will listen.
Tom has an active Apple Inc. daily podcast [8] along with active social media outlets he uses for his ministry.[9][10][11][12]
In March 2012, the Iowa State Daily newspaper had an opinion article written about an upcoming campus visit titled: Perdios: DOs and DON’Ts of dealing with visiting preacher Tom Short.[13] In the article, the author gives information about how Tom preaches, what to expect, and how to react to the visit.
Pastoral work
[edit | edit source]Short briefly served as pastor of Woodstock Community Church in Roswell, Georgia in 1990 while conducting services in the Roswell Holiday Inn,[14] and then moved to San Diego to pastor MountainView Community Church.[15][14]
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