About Us

Hi.  My name is Tom Anson, and I'm the owner of Anson Digital Concerns™, a sole proprietorship company, established in August of 2000.

I've been married to a wonderful lady named Linda for almost 17 years.  We have no children, but we do have one very large dog.  He's a Great Pyrenees that we got through the Pyrenees Rescue of Nebraska.  His name is Xanti (a Basque name I found on the internet).

Before August 2000, starting a business was the last thing on my mind.  Linda and I always had our hearts set on Christian ministry.  It was very literally the why of our decision to get married.  Before my disability got so severe that I couldn't continue, I had been in training for the pastorate.  When that door closed, I looked to writing.  And, all along, we have given ourselves in ministry to others, whenever the opportunity presented itself.

And so, given my disability on the one hand, and my total lack of interest in starting a business on the other — not to mention the fact that I didn't like the internet, and wasn't too crazy about computers — how did I end up starting Anson Digital Concerns™?

Taken by surprise

No one could possibly be more surprised to find me here than I.  I mean, we're talking way past improbable.

But, I've struggled with my health since early childhood, ever since I took the Sabin oral vaccine for polio.  Because doctors could do nothing for me, I was forced to search out alternatives for myself; and over the years, I found many things that helped some.

But then, in 1997, I was introduced to Young Living Essential Oils.  The benefits were on the order of the miraculous.  Then, in the early spring of 2000, I was introduced to Garden of Life products, particularly Primal Defense.  Suddenly, it seemed, what would have been a very wild dream only a few years before became a viable possibility.

I was very excited about these products, and had a strong desire to share them with other.

But how?

Linda and I were discussing this question when we saw an ad in the paper for a workshop on how to start an internet business.  Being more gullible then than I am now, I went, and was introduced to EZ-Net Tools. Suddenly, through the medium of the internet, I was provided with a way to share the products — and hope — that I had found.

With the support of these products, I was able to start this business; and I've done more since our start-up than I had in the previous 30 years.

A different kind of ministry

And in a way, this business is an extension of that heart for ministry.  It gives us the opportunity to minister in another way.  Through it, I've been able to help quite a few people, both with products and protocols to help with their various health issues (not as a professional service, but in sharing information) and with encouragement.

The skenopoios factor

But this business is something else, as well.  It's what might be referred to as "tent-making" (Greek: skenopoios).

In the New Testament (Acts 18:1-4), we are told that Paul, the apostle — along with Priscilla and Aquila — worked as a tent-maker to support himself and his colleague as he worked in the gospel.  And, in a sense, Anson Digital Concerns™ is nothing more than that: tent-making.  It's simply a means to an end, intended to support me and my family as we work in the gospel.

It's my hope to have the pleasure of serving you.