Dr. Tom Townsend has served Trinity Baptist since January 2016. During the past five decades of ministry, he has pastored churches in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Florida. Additionally, he has served as the Director of Development and Communications for the Florida Baptist Children's Home, VP for Development and Communications for the Kentucky Baptist Homes for children (now Sunrise Children's Home) and as the Executive Director of Life International, a ministry to orphans and orphanages in Ukraine.

He has led many mission teams to serve outside the US and is also involved with mission efforts in our state that include disaster relief chaplaincy and pregnancy centers. 

Dr. Tom and his wife, Mary Jo, have five children, ten grandchildren, and four great grandchildren.

His life verses are Philippines 3:10-11 "I want to know Christ - yes, to know the power of His resurrection and participation in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead."