Grace and Truth Fellowship Inc.

Reverend Thomas Richard Gardner

Thomas Richard Gardner graduated from St.Vincent College in Latrobe PA in 1976 with a degree in Music Education. He came to the Lord in 1978 in a local Christian and Missionary Alliance Church and began a detailed study of the Bible shortly thereafter. This study included Greek and Old Testament history and Archaeology and two years of private tutoring in Hebrew and Torah as a student of Rabbi Herbert Gilner. Thom also graduated with a Masters of Applied Ministry from Cornerstone Seminary in Harrisonburg , VA and is now a member of that faculty teaching Hebrew and Greek.

Thom has ministered as a Bible teacher or pastor since 1986, and is now President of Grace and Truth Fellowship, Inc.; a ministry dedicated to healing wounded emotions. The mission statement includes training and raising up healing teams throughout the body of Christ. Thom is now speaking and teaching a seminar based on book Altars of the Heart to be released by Destiny Image in the Spring of 2003.

Mary Lyn Dixon

Mary Lyn has been doing inner healing ministry for the past four years with Grace and Truth Fellowship. She has a passion to see people experience and live from a place of intimacy in their relationship with God. Prior to this position, Mary Lyn has served in a variety of leadership roles in the body of Christ. During the late 80s and early 90s she lived among the poor for six years in the Tidewater area of Virginia building community and directing a host of programs serving as one of the key leaders of an interdenominational missions organization. Since that time, Mary Lyn has worked as the Director of Christian Education in two different denominational settings giving her five years of experience providing educational leadership to the local church. Prior to working for Grace and Truth Fellowship Mary Lyn served as a Mobile Therapist and Behavioral Special for a mental health agency in Chambersburg, PA. During these two years of experience Mary Lyn witnessed the need for spiritual interventions to be utilized in mental health treatment. Today she combines all these years of experience into a sound and sensitive approach to inner healing. Mary Lyn was raised in the Shreveport/Bossier City area of Louisiana and considers herself a southern woman at heart. Prior to entering into the field of Christian Ministry she taught for five years in the public school system. Mary Lyn has a Masters degree in Biblical Studies from Regent University . She lives in Suffern , NY with her husband Scott who teaches at Nyack College .