He’s back!
What? Who is back???
Western
Oklahoma author Tom Spence, will be selling and signing his
books at Beyond
the Pallet in Elk City, Oklahoma on Saturday, 23 April 2016
from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Tom signed books
here once before just as the new business opened. He’s back signing books and
enjoying the pleasant atmosphere and wonderful fare of this revitalized
establishment. Beyond the Pallet is located at 103
South Main Street in Elk
City.
Tom will
have a variety of books published by Tate
Publishing. Two of the most hard-hitting
books, especially for those in western Oklahoma, are Throw Away Kids and PoMo Poverty. In these companion selections,
Tom goes beyond identifying society’s problems; he brings us to solutions that
don’t wait on the government to fix or ignore the problems.
Since Tom was last
at Beyond
the Pallet, he has published two books/scripts with fast moving dialogue
where people actually talk about important things. Defense mechanisms get turned off and people
really talk. The first involves two
women trapped in an elevator and is titled Going
Up. The second book involves two
men who meet weekly and is based entirely in conversation. The title is simply, The
Conversation.
Tom is an
ordained minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the pastor of the congregation in Burns Flat, Oklahoma.
As a pastor,
he returned this past summer from his second trip
to Africa to train
pastors and church leaders in Kenya
and Uganda. He has served as moderator
of the Red River Presbytery but perhaps is best known as the guy who gives out
wristbands that read: GOD LOVES YOU –
LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
He is a
retired U.S. Marine Corps officer that served in all four Marine Divisions,
including a tour training reservists. He
has served in Iraq
and Kuwait, Japan, aboard Marine bases on the east and west coasts of the
United States, and has a substantial amount of service afloat. His final tour was as a program manager in
charge of maintenance and modifications of Marine Corps ground training systems
and simulators around the globe.
Tom served
as both student and instructor at the Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Virginia—the
Crossroads of the Corps, and proudly boasts that he successfully avoided a tour
in the Pentagon for his entire career.
Tom wrote two books specifically about the Marine Corps. The first was a first person collection of
observations and anecdotes titled Sea Stories. The other
was Christianity for Marines.
Please join Tom
on 23 April 2016, buy a few books, and get a cup of coffee or something delicious at Beyond
the Pallet, and enjoy a Saturday afternoon in this fine establishment.
Book Signing by Tom
Spence
Beyond the Pallet
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
