GLOBAL MISSION DIRECTOR, ENTREPRENEUR, SERIAL PLANTER.
Tom loves planting ministries nationwide and internationally — planting campus ministry on the East Coast (Boston), planting a Foundation and high-tech start-ups on the West Coast (Silicon Valley), planting a “church” planting movement in Nebraska-Iowa-Kansas-Missouri (Midwest), and planting an indigenously-led movement overseas (Mongolia).
After graduating from Harvard University in 1994, Tom served with InterVarsity as Team Leader at Harvard and Boston University. He pioneered new Asian American Christian Fellowships at both schools, then focused on training InterVarsity missionaries, serving as Fund Development Specialist and Global Missions Consultant.
In 2000-02, Tom served as a HR Director of a Fortune 500 company and Leadership Pastor at Wellspring Covenant Community Church (San Lorenzo, CA). From 2002-06, Tom planted and served as IFES Country Director of the Mongolian student movement, Fellowship of Christian Students (FCS). Since moving back to the U.S. in 2006 , Tom currently serves as InterVarsity’s Regional Director for the Central United States.
Tom also enjoys being a pioneer in the publishing world. A 2nd-generation Taiwanese American, Tom is the author of the first Asian American ministry book published by IVP, “Losing Face, Finding Grace” (1997), also published in a Mandarin Chinese edition (2008) in Asia and the U.S. He is a frequent speaker at Urbana Missions Conventions, including plenary speaker at Urbana ‘06. Tom is also a frequent conference speaker in the U.S. and East Asia, and teacher for the U.S. Center for World Mission’s Perspectives courses.
Tom serves on the Board of Directors of Wycliffe Bible Translators and on the Advisory Board of Leadership and Legacy Foundation. He also serves on the Lausanne North American Regional Advisory Council. Tom has been consulted by leading publications such Christianity Today and The Wall Street Journal.
Tom’s seminary studies were done at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is married to his wife of 10 years,
