Tom Mercer

Senior Pastor, Elder

Tom Mercer is the Senior Pastor of Christ Covenant Church. Tom was born in Annapolis, MD, and graduated as a loyal Terps fan from the University of Maryland. He owned a CPA practice for several years, which he sold in order to move to Austria to do missions work among refugees there. Eventually Tom moved back to the U.S., graduated with an M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and pastored in Michigan. Tom has served since 1999 as the Senior Pastor of Christ Covenant, where his passion is to see the believers in this church grow incrementally in grace as they delight in God. Tom and his wife Carol have three children Katie (and husband Brandon), Rachel (and husband Brad), and Tommy, and newly added to the family are grandsons Banks, Hayes, and Mercer (parents Rachel and Brad) and granddaughters Anna Caroline, Emma, Charlotte, and Lucy (parents Katie and Brandon).

Role: Lead pastor and preacher; spiritual and strategic leadership of congregation, staff, and elder board; pastoral oversight of the congregation