Dr tom malone biography of michaels

by Jack Williams, publications editor
Free Will Baptist Bible College

Email Jack at jack@fwbbc.edu

WHEN TOM MALONE TOOK HIS FIRST BREATH on December 30, 1940, he was already a Free Will Baptist preacher’s son.

He can’t remember a day when his dad, Reverend Wallace Malone, did not have a Bible in his hand and the responsibility of a local church on his mind.

What Tom did not know as a boy growing up in Illinois was that God had similar plans for him.

Converted at age seven, he spent the next 11 years trying (not too successfully at times) to avoid embarrassing his preacher father.

Dr tom malone biography of michaels

“It was tough,” Tom says. “I felt the pressure of being a preacher’s son, knowing I could not do what others did, nor go where they went. But I loved my dad and mom, and never wanted to embarrass them.

I did not always succeed.”

Call to Preach

Forty-six years ago, three months after his older brother Ron prayed nearly