Tom, president of Brooks Real Estate, shares the kind of wisdom you're not likely to hear from many top realtors in the business world today. For one thing, he's a believer.

Tom believes in the life-changing power of God; it was only through God that Tom's life was turned around after many years of living in quiet desperation. And he's the first person who will tell you that, at the time, he believed that he was at the top of his game and that he was in control of his life. Until he received the infilling of the Holy Spirit.

That was the beginning of many changes in his personal and professional life.

As a result, Brooks Real Estate is now one of North Texas' success stories, a robust company that enjoys an unparalleled reputation for excellence and honesty. It's based in Tom's personal life verse which says, "So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life--your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life--and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you." (Romans 12:1-3, The Message).

Candid about his failures, overflowing with a quiet reserve of practical counsel, and always sincere, Tom shares what he's learned along the way with whomever God Almighty places in his path.

Tom's agency specializes in farms and ranches, residential developments, homes in town or on acreage, and a wide variety of commercial properties, from bed and breakfasts to retail throughout the state of Texas. The company, in business since 1957, remains successful under Tom’s intuitive and decisive leadership skills. Tom and his agents strive solely for customer satisfaction with honesty and integrity. Brooks Real Estate sponsors up to 17 real estate licenses, and of those 17 licenses, two agents are licensed as brokers. Tom has successfully assembled a team of highly motivated individuals with tremendous depth who are dedicated to the sale and development of diversified real estate. Their strength is generated from their commitment to their clients, customers, industry, and consistent devotion to their community.

Brooks Real Estate is annually recognized for "multimillion dollar sales agent" for many of the company’s sales associates. Tom is devoted to his children, Chessney and Baylor, is an active member of First Baptist Church, Stephenville, involved in a multitude of philanthropic efforts, promotes wildlife conservation, and is involved in whitetail deer genetics in the United States and Canada and sponsors and hosts a wide variety of youth events.

Core Values:
We seek to find agreement and to work with others within the essentials of historical orthodox Christianity, as reflected in our statement of faith, valuing and building on our diverse strengths in the body of Christ, while having an attitude of service and graciousness to all people.

Foundations:
Our faith foundation gives our products and services a unified message; it also underlies our values, our attitudes, our priorities, our goals, and our relationships. We seek to minister to and work with a broad range of Christians from many traditions and cultural backgrounds throughout the world. As we work together under a common mission, our unity is centered on the person of Christ and His redemptive work. It transcends denominational, doctrinal, social, and political differences. Therefore, we embrace and demonstrate this principle: "In essential things unity, in nonessential things liberty; in all things charity."

People:
We value each other by giving honor through our words and actions, and by committing to each person's success. Taking great care as we select those who desire to be at Brooks Real Estate and have the right abilities and gifts, we then work together to increase our skills and capacities in order to more effectively fulfill our mission.

Foundations:
We believe that people are our greatest resource and that each person is gifted to make a positive contribution. Because we are made in the image of God and are loved by Him unconditionally, we strive to express this same kind of love towards others. It matters how we treat each other, showing honor and respect; it matters if there is vitality in all areas of our lives--physically, emotionally, spiritually and mentally; it matters if there is a measure of "balance" between our work, our play, our family and our personal ministry expressions; and it matters if our relationships are healthy. It takes a mutual commitment and perseverance to create an environment in which each person will experience the joy of making significant contributions.

Stewardship:
Our resources (our lives, our heritage, our talents and gifts, our finances and assets, and the gospel message) have been entrusted to us, and we are accountable to our customers, to each other, and ultimately to God for the faithful use of them. Brooks Real Estate is a self-sustaining and other-sustaining business.

Foundations:
Our lives and resources come solely from God and belong to God. There is only so much we can do with the resources that are available. We need to generate attractive revenues in excess of expenses so that we can invest in the growth of business as our ministry. In this context, no profit is too great and no waste is too small. We are seeking as an organization to be positioned to maximize the "windows of opportunity" the Lord presents to the greatest degree that resources allow. All of our efforts together and our resources are aligned to fulfill this common mission: "To encourage the acceptance of Jesus Christ as personal Savior and to disciple and equip believers for lives of service."

Teamwork:
We encourage, support and value teamwork. We work together to multiply our effectiveness and transfer our best individual gifts and energy into team effort.

Foundations:
There will be change, and new people will come to be a part of Brooks Real Estate. Each one creates change in our organization as they join, and it requires personal change for each of us to make room for them. As has been said here, "All of us are smarter than any one of us." We really need each other. God's work in the world is not dependent on any one person or organization but rather on His working through His body in its many different expressions. Our ability to work alongside and in support of others is becoming increasingly important towards meeting our organizational objectives and in the highest sense serving God's people around the world.