Author | Speaker | Leadership Mentor

Tom Bennardo

About Tom

Tom Bennardo is a four-decade ministry veteran whose experience spans the spectrum—church planter, lead pastor, mentor and coach, conference speaker, author, and denominational leader.

He holds an MDiv from Grace Theological Seminary and a doctorate from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He currently serves as Executive Director of Church Leadership and Multiplication for the Fellowship of Evangelical Churches, where he provides training, equipping, and spiritual direction for current and emerging pastors—and is a sought-after speaker, seminar leader, and consultant.

A New York City native, Tom is an avid sports fan who lives and (mostly) dies with the New York Mets and Jets, and a mediocre athlete whose past accomplishments grow greater in his mind with every passing year.

Tom and his wife Marcia have been married 40 years and have two grown daughters.  He’s never surfed, but resides in San Clemente, CA for the view.

BOOKS BY TOM

Open-Hearted People,
Soul-Connected Church

In a guarded and superficial world, God calls us to a soul-level honest that can transform our spiritual lives and revolutionize our experience in Christian community.

As you learn to engage your world with your soul wide open, you’ll discover deeper connections – with yourself, others, and God – an open avenues for other lonely and disconnected should to join you there.

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The Honest Guide to
Church Planting

Church planting is at once the greatest and most grueling ministry work on earth. This book is for those toiling in the trenches, those about to bail out, and those considering jumping in. It’s for the church planters laboring and struggling, seeing little movement, and wondering what they’re doing wrong or why God is failing them.

Embracing a more accurate and realistic picture of what planting a church is really like will not only enable you to survive, but to thrive in this wondrous work.

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