Larry Tomczak graduated cum laude from Cleveland State University where he served as president of the student body.

After a position at the AFL-CIO Headquarters in Washington, D.C., he became involved in a city-wide teaching ministry and for the past thirty five years has given himself to planting churches, training leaders and authoring six books, including the quarter-million best seller, Clap Your Hands, plus Divine Appointments and Reckless Abandon. He is Director of I.C.E.C.A.P. (International Center for Evangelism, Church-planting And Prayer) and has 4 children. Larry and his wife Doris were wed in 1976 and live in Franklin, Tennessee.