church on Main

tommy@churchonmain.church

Tommy McDearis has served as our church’s Senior Pastor for 25+ years. A church youth described him as “short, bald, outgoing, jovial, and approachable.” Raised in church, he became a Christian at 16. Tommy is also a Police Chaplain for Blacksburg and Virginia Tech. He holds his bachelor’s degree from Georgia’s Berry College, and he holds both a Master’s degree and an earned doctorate in crisis and grief intervention from Southeastern Seminary, Wake Forest, NC. Tommy has counseling training from the School of Clinical Pastoral Education, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC. He is married to his college sweetheart, Susan, a retired educator. They have three adult children, their beloved spouses, and two granddaughters, Adaline and Savannah (Tommy has lots of pictures to share!).