Tom serves as the assistant pastor at Eglise Emmanuel Etterbeek, a French-speaking church in central Brussels, in Belgium. As well as preaching and leading services, he heads up the children’s ministry and is involved in evangelism and training.
Brussels, the capital of Belgium, is a multicultural city of over a million people. Brussels is a predominantly French-speaking city although different languages are heard on every corner. The Etterbeek district is one of the most international districts in this international city. The headquarters of the three European Union Institutions tower over ‘old-Brussels’ streets of art-deco townhouses and hidden parks. Etterbeek has a population of around 50,000 inhabitants for which there are just two small French-speaking evangelical churches.
Tom and Liz have been living and working in Brussels since 2013. After ten years in finance, Tom has completed theological training at the Brussels Bible Institute and is working full-time as the assistant pastor at Emmanuel Etterbeek church which they helped to plant in 2016. The French-speaking church has around 40 adults on a Sunday and sits within a church association of protestant evangelical churches in French-speaking Belgium. Tom is passionate about seeing God’s Word faithfully understood and lived out as people’s lives are transformed by the gospel of God’s grace.
Tom focuses his time on preaching and teaching in a variety of settings: to the gathered church and in a small group and one-to-one studies. He leads the children’s ministry, and is seeking ways to train the men of the church to rightly handle and teach the Bible. Tom directs one of the two InterAction Belgium summer camps. When Liz isn’t working part-time, she looks after Lucas (6) and Theo (2) and helps to run a church-based mums and toddler group. She also reads the Bible with a lady at church and spends her time getting to know people in the community and improving her French.
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