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Tom Hammar

Tom Hammar

CPA and Senior Tax Manager (Lead Director) at Centennial Tax & Accounting in Rock Island, Illinois; board member of Fishers of Men Ministries.

Sep 20, 2026

0:00
We landed in Nairobi and then we drove to a school in Western Victory Academy in Western Kenya.
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And that's a very rural setting.
0:08
In fact, it looked like I could be back in the Quad Cities when we were there.
0:12
And when we were approaching, so we'd gone from this huge city to, we were driving up to the academy there.
0:18
And as we kind of went over a hill, we could see the school, the beautiful picture of the school with all these wonderful children, had to be hundreds of children in their full uniforms singing to us.
0:30
And it was just something that was very beautiful.
5:22
So what happened to you and your faith and your walk to really lead you to take that trip to Kenya?
5:30
Well, it was daunting at first, I will say that, because I never set foot in the whole continent of Africa.
5:37
And so I...
5:39
I really didn't have a lot of frame of reference of what I was getting myself into.
5:43
And I thought it was interesting.
5:44
That was kind of an ask.
5:45
It wasn't more than an ask.

9 MINS LATER

14:36
So from your role as the CPA or the bookkeeper for Fishers of Men, talk about how that's so important for people that are watching or listening to this podcast to understand that that is super important for a ministry to be accredited by somebody like them, and tell them why that's important, Tom.

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