If becoming something of value is measured by others around us, then I was a failure.
If becoming something of value is measured by oneself, then again I was a failure.
It was only when I met Christ that I found my value.
He called me his pearl of great price, when all I saw was brokenness.
To Him I owe everything.
Including my life...
Partial Testimony:
Tom Hayden was born January 20th, 1958 in Plymouth Massachusetts. He was born premature weighing only one and a half pounds. He spent the first three months of his life in an incubator. Before Tom was three years old he drank a lethal dose of Old English furniture-polish this left him semi comatose for a short time. When Tom was 4 years old his father brought home a venereal disease and spread it to the family. During this age he also contracted Hepatitis. Tom still lives with liver damage an compromised blood.
By the age of five Tom was diagnosed with nervous bowl syndrome. At age eight, while repairing his bicycle Tom impaled a screwdriver in his right eye, leaving him permanently blind. At age fourteen Tom was diagnosed as having bleeding hemorrhoids when in fact he had ulcerative colitis. The bleeding never stopped and a year later on December 3rd 1973 he collapsed and was rushed to the hospital with just a half pint of blood left in his body. Tom has had over 13 major and 10 minor surgeries since then. Tom has been left with 3 feet 2 inches of intestines and a ileostomy…He is still held together internally by metal wires, lots of scar tissue and faith.
He has physically died three times and has had last rites performed over him numerous other times. Tom carries many marks inside and out over this his lifetime and every time he looks in the mirror he is reminded, it is only by Gods grace that he is still here.
He does see each day as a precious gift and treats it as such.
Tom has outlasted poverty, sickness, disease, gang violence and years of alcohol and drug abuse. For years, he was involved very deeply in witchcraft and the occult, yet through all this even the devil couldn't kill him.
You may wonder how could a man go through all that and still live, still smile, and laugh? There is no secret to Tom's success but there is someone whom Tom gives all the credit to and that is his father "God". When Tom was only five years old he accepted Christ
Throughout his teen years Tom walked not just into darkness but into utter darkness yet Father God never left Tom's side even through all these added hardships.
When Father God opened the door of opportunity for Tom to come home on August 15th, 1982 Tom started walking out his salvation.
As you can see, many things have happened in Tom's lifetime and the list was getting so long that Father God commanded Tom in 2001 to write his bio. Father said, “Tom write it down and make it clear so people can see that there is more on the inside than they see on the outside”. Tom has written the first of three volumes already. The title of book one is, BROKEN and can be purchased through the ministry. Two companion volumes are still in the works amongst other books the author is working on.
Tom wants you to know, No matter how far you have gone and no matter what you have done, Father God is able to reach even into the darkest blackest of nights in your life and still pull you to safety. Tom knows because Father God uses him in this manner.
Tom has accepted all of His Father's challenges to embrace and educate the lost until this point in his life and he is continuously looking for more out reach opportunities. If you are interested in being touched by this ministry, this is your chance. It is no accident you are reading this. This ministry does believe in destiny, fate and divine providence but above all these things we know He connects those who need to be connected. His timing is perfect.
Tom Hayden Ministries International is an Apostolic/Prophetic ministry whose mandate is to reach out to the lost, the hungry and the hurting of this generation. When God created Tom He also gave him a unique challenge in reaching the masses. Tom seems to effortlessly navigate within any construct created by man. The apostolic and prophetic mantels God has placed on him are very evident, especially when you walk with him during times of ministry. Tom's prophetic insight to minister directly to the heart of the problem instead of focusing on differences of doctrine and rituals, has allowed him to seemingly walk through walls.
Tom travels nationally and internationally. Remember, Tom never travels alone. God is his constant companion. Please consider inviting this dynamic team to minister in your area,
The devil won't be glad you did.
Remember,
You are going to make it after all.
Tom
Continued Information:
Among the many noted credits to Thomas Hayden’s name are his varied educational accomplishments. Not only did he study Commercial/Graphic/Fine Art, along with Architectural Rendering, Drafting/Printing, at St. Petersburg and South Eastern Regional Technical Institutes, but also Psychology, English and Philosophy/Counseling at both Mirror Lake Educational Center and Eckerd College.
He also successfully completed the rigors of both Christian International’s School of the Prophets and Advanced Prophetic training programs as well as The Permanent School of the Prophets (SOP) and the School of Apostolic Impartation and Ministry (AIM) in Muar, Malaysia.
Being of Italian decent and with experience traveling abroad for speaking engagements, he’s also fostered a desire to further develop language skills in Spanish, French and Italian.
Professionally, his accomplishments are equally notable as they are varied. He has over twenty years experience in finish painting, restorative work on period homes, carpentry, wood working, graphic arts and sign painting. Tom is an avid listener and collector of music and has artistic interests ranging from watercolor to marble statuary.
Tom helped establish and build Dancing For Him Ministries Inc. He was intricately involved in every aspect from producing and directing as well as camera work, staging lighting, sound equipment, music selection for ministry, helping to choreograph pieces for presentation and much more.
He and his right hand assistant created and gave people an option to be more than entertained in the church world, they were artistic prophetic ministers who brought the very presence of God into the environment through the audio visual arts thus delivering and healing people through a creative avenue. Dancing For Him pioneered then and still is pioneering in the area of the creative arts today.
It was while he was the president of the ministry that God pulled from and also imparted knowledge into Tom so he could function in the place created for him. Tom was with Dancing For Him Ministries for 12 years until he ended his tenure in 2006.
Even though Tom Hayden has eluded the public spotlight for self-recognition his unselfishness is greatly recognized by those who have benefited from his behind the scenes assistance. He has worked in the street ministry, Christian coffee houses and aided drug addicts in the midnight hour. He has held dying people in his arms; done jail/prison ministry, visited hospitals and nursing homes; and sang and preached in storefront churches. Tom has not only been an invaluable assistant to Pastors and various ministries, but has been a pastor, evangelist, a teacher and a prophetic minister, as well as a missionary on foreign soil.
Each step of the way, his heavenly Father has inspected the motivation of his heart and Tom continues to hear, “Great job my good and faithful servant.”
After twenty-seven years this story is not yet finished and this bio is not complete as Tom Hayden continues to write and minister from a small North Carolina Town where he currently resides.