Thomas William Zumbrock was born on 4 November, 1954, in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, USA. After graduation from high school in 1973, he began studies at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, with the goal of becoming a medical technician. After a difficult year of studies, he left the university and worked full time for the next year with his father, John Zumbrock, in the grocery business. Feeling led by the Lord, he then began studies at Concordia College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1975, in the pre-ministerial programme of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. After completing two years of study there, he moved on to the senior college, Concordia College, Ann Arbor, Michigan, from where he graduated in 1979 with a major in Greek and minors in Religion and History. Seminary training took place at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri from 1979 to 1983, with a one year vicarage at l'Eglise Evangelique Lutherienne du Sauveur Vivant in Gatinuea, Quebec ( a French language mission parish).
Upon graduation, Thom received his first call, to do mission work in Aylmer, Quebec. In 1984 he received the call to First St. Matthew's, Hanover, and St. James, Normanby, Ontario, where he served until 1987. In that year, he left the Missouri Synod to join the Eastern Synod of the ELCIC, and was called to Christ Lutheran, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC. At the same time he became a citizen of Canada, taking the oath in the same week as his installation service. He ministered in DDO to the end of August, 1994, when he then began a sabbatical. In the Fall of 1996, he was called to serve as interim pastor at St. Ansgar's, which lasted to the end of August, 1998. In October of that year he received the call to St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Magnetawan, ON, where he is currently serving.
Pastor Thom has many fond memories of St. Ansgar's and enjoys worshipping there when taking his holidays in Montreal.