Rev. Dr. Tom Walker, Worship Leader for APA Conference

Rev. Dr. Tom Walker will lead us in worship at Palms Presbyterian Church on Thursday, May 16, during the Florida Regional APA Conference in Jacksonville Beach. Visit www.floridaapa.org for Conference Registration.

Meet Rev. Dr. Tom Walker, Pastor of Palms Presbyterian Church in Jacksonville Beach. 

Tom was born and adopted in Raleigh, North Carolina.  At the age of two, he moved to Montgomery, Alabama, where his family remained until the early 1990’s.

 

After graduating cum laude from Davidson College in 1984, Tom earned a Master of Divinity with distinction degree in 1989 from Columbia Theological Seminary.  He was ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament, PC (USA) in December of that year.  Princeton Theological Seminary awarded Tom his Doctorate in Old Testament Studies in 1997.

Tom has always had a passion for both the parish and the academy.  He has taught masters and doctoral level courses at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis and Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur. His study of “Luke” was published in 2000 by Geneva Press Interpretation Bible Studies.  Tom served as the Associate Pastor/Theologian-in-Residence at Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana between 1993 and 2002. 

Rev. Dr. Tom Walker accepted the call of Palms Presbyterian Church in June, 2002. 

Tom has served in Presbytery and General Assembly level work for the PC (USA).  He served on the Core Cluster of the Reforming Ministry Group of the PC (USA), a five year examination of ecclesiology and the mission of the church, and the Ethics Committee of Beaches Baptist Hospital.       

Tom also serves on the Clinical Practice Quality Committee at the Mayo Clinic and is on the Board of Columbia Theological Seminary, where he served as chair of the Vision 2020 task force. 

Tom and his wife, Jan, live in Ponte Vedra with their sons, Worth and Chris.