Dr. Tom Zempel
9/24/1944 – 4/24/2016
Today is a hard day. Yesterday the news came to ACBC that one of our members, Dr. Tom Zempel, died while jogging with his wife. Tom was the husband of his dear wife Jane, and the father of Benjamin, Jonathan (wife Renee), and Amy (husband Neil). He was a pastor at Colonial Baptist Church, a professor at Shepherd’s Seminary, and a long-serving Fellow at ACBC.
Over the years many in ACBC have come to know Tom as dearly cherished brother in Christ. We have served with him, received his wisdom, been guests in his home, and seen the powerful fruit of his ministry counseling troubled people and supervising counselors in training. His loss is as painful as it is surprising.
In honor of Tom we want to highlight this video of Tom that we filmed last year. It is characteristic of Tom’s love for people and devotion to Christ.
In these days we want to join in praying for the Zempel family, and the body of Christ at Colonial. May they know the comfort and peace of Christ himself in these hard days of loss.
