Tom Coles

Tom married his high school sweetheart 4 decades ago!  He and his wife Cindy have three kids, plus their spouses and 6 grandkids.  Tom has always had a creative side to him.  He had a natural talent in drafting, which helped with the design and build of their three family homes over the years.  Each home incorporated a photographic studio, which was his main vocation for over 30 years. 

Tom and Cindy became ministry partners at Central in 2017.  It was the teaching and community that drew them to Central.  During the filming of the partnership video, Tom stated that he was ready and willing to use the gifts and skills which God had equipped him with for His glory and the work of the church.  Little did Tom know that the area of need he would be placed in would be video production …a natural fit!

When Tom is not creating, he is thinking …always thinking!  Tom is continually interested in how people think and how they come to their worldviews, which are the values they use to navigate culture.  In his spare time, with Cindy, they are Directors of the Fraser Valley Cohort of the Colson Fellows Program, serving western Canada. The Colson Fellows Program is a ministry of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. 

Favourite passage: 

See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.

Colossians 2:8

Favourite quotes:

“Live not by lies.”  

    Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“Ideas have consequences,  bad ideas have victims”.    

John Stonestreet