Speaker Details
Tom Peterson
For 25 years, Tom Peterson built his career as an award-winning, national corporate advertising executive.
But Tom’s life would radically change forever, after receiving an incredible and transforming Spiritual conversion in 1997, while on a men’s retreat from his church. Soon afterward, he founded VirtueMedia.org and CatholicsComeHome.org, educational non-profit media apostolates dedicated the Catholic principles of the sanctity of life and Catholic evangelization.
With the vision to combine his innovative professional media background with Catholic virtues, Peterson dedicated himself to producing and airing powerful national-quality Catholic television commercials worldwide.
To date, these powerful television messages and websites helped save thousands babies from abortion, and help nearly 20,000 abortion vulnerable women each month the spots air nationally on MTV and BET.
Through God’ grace, Catholics Come Home has helped lead over 100,000 souls back to the Catholic Church in a matter of weeks, and educated millions of people about God’s teachings. Recently, Catholics Come Home was awarded with the Legatus International 2009 “Evangelization Award” and “Best Practices” award from the Leadership Roundtable.
In record time, their new CatholicsComeHome.org television ads and website have attracted nearly a million unique visitors from all 50 states and 80 foreign countries. Currently, CatholicsComeHome.org ads are being implemented in 15 archdioceses and dioceses, where secularism has led to low Mass attendance.
In the past decade, Peterson has presented to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Australian Media Conference and Australian Bishops Plenary Meeting, and at various Pontifical Councils at the Vatican.
Peterson and his apostolates have been featured in nearly one hundred media venues on secular and Catholic radio, newspapers, magazines and TV interviews including on Fox News and multiple appearances on EWTN worldwide television. Their new CatholicsComeHome.org ads were aired on the JumboTron at the Papal Mass in Washington DC, and at the National Prayer breakfast for 2,500 top Catholic leaders.
Over the past decade since his spiritual reversion, Tom has spoken at countless national and international conferences, churches, and ministry events relating to his areas of expertise: Media, the Sanctity of Life, and Catholic Evangelization. Tom knows his vocation in life is to evangelize souls using the power of media. He encourages others to seek God’s plan for their lives, to help change our world for the better.
Tom currently serves on the board for Catholics Come Home, VirtueMedia, and Legatus International.
Tom and Tricia, his wife of 22 years, and their three daughters live in the Atlanta suburbs, where they are active members in their parish.
www.CatholicsComeHome.org
www.VirtueMedia.org
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