Brother Mack Tomlinson was ordained to the gospel ministry in 1977 in his home church of First Baptist Church of Clarendon, Texas. He holds a BA degree in New Testament from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, and has done graduate studies in Israel, and through Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth and Tyndale Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. He has also served as an editor and book publisher, currently conducting a discount literature ministry of the best evangelical literature in print. He also conducts an itinerant preaching ministry around the U. S., and overseas in Eastern Europe, the South Pacific, and other areas of the world. Mack has been married to his wife, Linda, for 31 years, and they have six children.
Brother Philip Neeley has been a landscape architect with a Dallas/Fort Worth firm for over 20 years. He has been preaching the Gospel for over 10 years and has been a preaching elder with Mack at Providence Chapel since 2000, the beginning of the church’s establishment. Philip has been married to his wife, Krista, for 28 years, and is the father of six children, two by adoption.



