Tom Rees

Our past make us who we are today, whether for the good or the bad its up to you. Yeah that’s right, no longer can you blame everything on your past. You can choose to learn and grow from your past or dwell in it and never pick yourself up; I’m not saying its not going to effect you it defiantly will always have an imprint on you, but your not bound by your past. Tom Rees is a man that took the past and made something of it a little about Tom’s background, well he didn’t know his father as a child and his stepfather was a military pilot and he was shot down in the Vietnam War. So he experienced loss very early on, he said he remembers the military man coming to his home to tell his family about his stepfather’s death.  His mother had stayed strong and raised him on her own for a while; until she met someone in Philly and he became Tom’s dad number three. Well this man was not a great character he had a second family that he would visit on business trips.

 As you can see there haven’t been a lot of great men in Tom’s life that he can really look up to, there was one man in his life he could always count on, his uncle who didn’t always handle things normally for example when they discovered that dad number three had a second family Uncle was going to pay him an unkind visit.  The visit began with Tom’s uncle picking Tom and his mom up and driving toward the developments, when they pulled up and Tom’s uncle saw Tom’s dad his uncle got out of the car and pulled out a crowbar. Tom’s mother bravely wrapped her arms around Tom’s uncle and asked him to stop.  On the way back home Toms mom asked his uncle to pull over at the church, she had no background with the church she just needed something; his mother later came to the Lord, she just called out to him. 

Tom’s mother had encouraged Tom to seek out the Lord, and eventually he did.  So there is a point to covering Pastor Tom’s past and that’s to lead to the effects these things have had on his present; well as you know Tom didn’t have a father growing up, so how has that effected him? He says that it has made it hard to receive affection from men he also tries to prove himself and outdo himself. Tom has found that he now is an overachiever and a workaholic; he has made his family a priority although he does have to rip himself from his work at time he always takes time for his family. Tom sometimes takes trips to get away and disengage from the work and responsibilities, he tries really hard to not take away from his kids and there time together. He has worked really hard to keep his wife at home with the kids and dong things together as a family, even ministry together as a family. As you can see he has chosen to take the life challenges he and his mother had and use them to be a great father, minister, and leader.