Western
Oklahoma author, retired Marine Corps officer, and Cumberland Presbyterian
minister Tom Spence, will be selling and signing his books at the Covenant
Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Ada, Oklahoma from 5:00 to 7:00
p.m. on Friday, 14 October 2016.
Shouldn’t he
be doing this in a bookstore? Tom has
been featured in bookstores and coffee shops in several states but this time he
is conducting a fundraiser for the Red River Presbytery of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church. The General
Assembly of this denomination of about 100, 000 will be hosted in Norman,
Oklahoma in 2018 by the Choctaw and Red River Presbyteries. Tom is donating 100% of all proceeds from
this book signing to the Red River Presbytery to support this gathering.
Tom will
have a variety of his books published by Tate
Publishing. Two of the most hard-hitting books,
especially for those in western Oklahoma, are Throw Away Kids and PoMo Poverty.
In these companion selections, Tom goes beyond identifying society’s
problems; he brings us to solutions that don’t wait on the government to fix or
ignore the problems.
Tom is an
ordained minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the pastor of the congregation in Burns Flat, Oklahoma.
As a pastor,
he ministers not only within the state but returned last summer from his second
trip to Africa to train pastors and church leaders in Kenya and Uganda. He has served as moderator of the Red River
Presbytery but perhaps is best known as the guy who gives out wristbands that
read: GOD LOVES YOU – LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
Tom is a
retired U.S. Marine Corps officer that served in all four Marine Divisions,
including a tour training reservists. He
has served in Iraq and Kuwait, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, aboard Marine
bases on the east and west coasts of the United States, and has a substantial
amount of service afloat. His final tour
was as a program manager in charge of maintenance and modifications of Marine
Corps ground training systems and simulators around the globe.
Tom served
as both student and instructor at the Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Virginia—the
Crossroads of
the Corps, and
proudly boasts that he successfully avoided a tour in the Pentagon for his
entire career. Tom wrote two books
specifically about the Marine Corps. The
first was a first person collection of observations and anecdotes titled Sea Stories. The other was Christianity for Marines.
Tom will
also have with him, two unique books with fast moving dialogue where two men—The Conversation—and two women—Going Up—drop their defense mechanisms and actually talk about
important things.
Please join
Tom on Friday 14 October 2016, buy a few books, and be a part of hosting the
General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 2018.
Book Signing by Tom
Spence
5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Friday, 14 October 2016
Covenant Cumberland
Presbyterian Church
15791 State Hwy 1W
Ada, Oklahoma 74820
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