Pastor Tom Demaree, Founder & Director of Pentecost Walk, has led over 34,000 miles of prayer-walks across country, coming alongside pastors and leaders as a brother and a friend. To date, these efforts have touched all 50 states, involving thousands of churches. Beyond ministerial leaders, God has given Tom unusual favor with scores of elected officials nationwide. Tom’s post-partisan, behind-the-scenes approach with these leaders is building bridges of genuine friendship on both sides of the aisle—an integral part of God’s “if My people” wake-up call, at this pivot-point in American history.
As a speaker and singer/songwriter, Tom brings the word of the Lord in a refreshingly plainspoken manner—a safe haven for the listener, whether conservative or charismatic. Self-described as a “Roman-Bapiticostal,” Tom’s often described by others as a cross between John the Baptist and John the Beloved—boldly addressing our collective need for repentance, yet always doing so with an unbridled passion that we would be ONE. Tom’s authentic and unvarnished honesty has been catalytic to many embracing a deeper intimacy with Christ, and through that intimacy, rediscovering the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Tom served on staff under Pastor Jack Hayford in the mid-eighties and two subsequent West Coast churches before devoting himself fully to trans-local ministry in the late nineties. He and his wife, Deanna, have three grown children and two beautiful twin granddaughters. When not on the road, you’ll see Tom out walking in his hometown in Franklin, Tennessee.