Rev Tom Hilpert has been in full time ministry since 1991. A graduate of American Lutheran Theological Seminary, currently he serves as pastor of New Joy Fellowship, a church he began in 2005 in Lebanon, TN. He is also a member of the leadership team of Life Together Churches -- an organization dedicated to planting house churches and cell churches all over the United States. Tom has been a substantial leader in four different church plants, and has served as a consultant to several others. He is the author of materials that have been used to start churches in the United States, Great Britain, Vietnam, India and Mongolia.