Dr. Tom Malone
(1915-2007)

A graduate of Bob Jones College, he also earned a Ph.D. (cum laude) at Wayne State University of Detroit.

After two brief pastorates in the Detroit area, in 1942 Dr. Malone founded the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Pontiac which he would serve as pastor for more than fifty years. For over thirty years of that time, the church was recognized to be among the one hundred largest churches in America.

In 1954 he founded Midwestern Baptist College. In its fifty-three years, the college has trained and graduated many hundreds of preachers and Christian workers who serve faithfully in churches around the world.

For more than fifty years, Dr. Malone was one of the most sought-after pulpiteers in the world. He was featured regularly on almost every national platform in independent Baptist circles and was a regular guest in the pulpit of every large fundamental church in America. He was a master craftsman in the preparation of sermons and a prince of preachers at the time of the sermons's delivery. Dr. John R. Rice often referred to him as "perhaps the greatest pulpiteer of his generation."