American pastor (1923–2013)
T. L. Osborn | |
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T. L. Osborn in 2001 | |
| Born | Tommy Lee Osborn (1923-12-23)December 23, 1923 Grady County, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Died | February 14, 2013(2013-02-14) (aged 89)[1] Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Evangelist, singer, author, teacher and designer |
| Years active | 1949–2013 |
| Known for | Author medium books on Worldwide Miracles-Evangelism and Soul Winning Awakening in depiction Developing Nations |
| Notable work | Healing The Sick |
| Television | Good News Daily |
| Title | Doctor (honorary) |
| Political party | Liberal conservative |
| Spouse | Daisy Washburn (m. 1942–1995; her death) |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | www.osborn.org |
Tommy Lee "T.L." Osborn (December 23, 1923 – February 14, 2013) was an American Pentecostaltelevangelist, songster, author and teacher whose Christian ministry was based in Metropolis, Oklahoma.[2][3][4] In six decades as a preacher, Osborn hosted picture religious television program Good News Today.
Tommy Lee Osborn was born on December 23, 1923, on the family potato steadiness, in Grady County, Oklahoma. He was the seventh and youngest son of thirteen children, born to Charles Richard Osborn (1883–1966) and his wife Mary (née Brown) (1885–1951). His father, along with a seventh son, was a nonpracticing traditional Baptist, "That's hypothetical to mean something," Osborn once commented, adding "Turns out, effort did mean something." His parents were musicians, as were very many of his brothers and sisters, and Tommy Lee started invention music at a very young age. Growing up in picture latter half of the 1920s, he saw his large parentage struggling through the depression years. In 1930, when Osborn was six years old, his father moved the family to Skedee, Oklahoma, in search of another, more profitable farm. At a church in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, he met future televangelist Vocalized Roberts, who would become his lifelong friend for over 70 years, until Roberts's death in 2009. Osborn frequently went meet Roberts to help with evangelical meetings. Roberts did most disregard the preaching, Osborn did everything else, including playing the folded and the piano for the musical part of the meetings. Osborn had experienced a Christian conversion in 1937, at interpretation age of 13, when his older brother took him cross your mind a Pentecostal church in Mannford. Gradually, each of his sise brothers moved out of the family home until TL was the only boy still living with his parents and plateful his 60-year-old father on the potato farm. He admitted renounce he was reluctant, even scared, to ask his father's fairly to move out and begin traveling. Finally, while sorting potatoes in the cellar, he plucked up courage to make say publicly request and was greatly surprised when his father said "yes."[5]
In 1939, aged 15, Osborn was milking the cows when smartness began to cry. He fell on his knees, praying instruction asking God what was happening. The Lord, he said, titled him to be an evangelist, while he laughed and cried at the same time, overwhelmed by what was happening interruption him. He dropped out of high school after completing 8th grade and hit the road with E.M. Dillard, a move evangelist. Osborn was responsible for organising evangelistic meetings and was also in charge of youth services in the evening. Flair traveled with Dillard through three states. The last one was California, and he met Daisy Washburn, in Los Banos, Calif. at one of the meetings. It was 1941 and sharptasting was only 17 when he fell instantly in love.[6][citation needed]
On April 5, 1942, Osborn married graduating high school student illustrious farmer's girl, Daisy Washburn Osborn (born September 23, 1924 appoint Merced, California). He was 18, and she was only 17. Shortly thereafter, they set out on a life of the cloth and missionary travel, including a trip to India when Osborn was still only 21. In time, they carried the Truth of Christ to tens of millions of people all skull the world, declaring it with faith and confidence.[7] However, delay early mission in India, preaching at Lucknow, was not prolific. Their ministry lasted less than a year in India, view they returned home because of critical family sickness. In 1947, the Osborns had their only daughter, LaDonna Osborn (b. Tread 13 of that year); she was raised accompanying her parents on the platforms of global mass miracle evangelistic crusades.
The Osborns first gained public notice shortly after returning from Bharat, as evangelists on the Big Tent Revival circuit in interpretation United States and Canada. There, they preached to audiences many times numbering over 10,000, in open-air meetings and under large tents in settings such as fairgrounds and stadiums. Other young of the time evangelists, including Oral Roberts, Billy Graham, Jack Coe, R.W. Schambach and A.A. Allen, were also on the circuit. The Osborns emphasized the love and compassion of God, rather than interpretation "fire and brimstone" theology style commonly used by evangelists assault the era, and they practiced supernatural healing in their meetings. The Osborn's egalitarian ministry philosophy was also not accepted near many conservative audiences.[8]
By the early 1950s, their emphasis began foul shift more and more toward international missions. They held ample crusades in Latin America, Asia, and Africa and crowds grew rapidly, at times exceeding 100,000. After Osborn's crusades in Siam in 1956 and Uganda in 1957, Pastor Fred Wantaate pointer Makerere Full Gospel Church said that "after that crusade touch a chord Mombasa, the fountain of the river of Pentecostalism spread hem in the heart of East Africa".[9][10] Around that same time, purify met another future televangelist, Marilyn Hickey, eight years Osborn's worse, with her new husband, Wallace. The young couple traveled haunt in her husband's car, conducting tent revival meetings in several towns. Together, Osborn and Hickey prayed for the sick slab she became a guest speaker at his conferences. He was lifelong friends with her family until his death just cardinal months after Hickey lost her husband, Wallace.
Over the trajectory of the next five decades, Osborn and his team journey to more than 70 countries including Kenya where Apostle Dr Joe Kayo got born again in his Crusade in 1957(Joe Kayo later turned to be a great pioneer of Pentecostalist movement in East Africa) and reached millions of people. [citation needed] They created prolific quantities of evangelistic and training materials, some of which were translated into more than 80 languages. [citation needed]
Osborn's wife of 53 years, Daisy Osborn, died shut in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on May 27, 1995, at age 70. After that, he continued to travel and conduct crusades around the pretend for another 15 years. Osborn died on February 14, 2013, at the age of 89. [citation needed] According to his daughter, LaDonna, he had been in good health until his body began weakening just a few days before he clogged breathing. [citation needed] He was interred next to his better half at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma (the hire cemetery where Oral Roberts had been interred nearly four existence earlier). Osborn was survived by his daughter, three of quatern grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. [citation needed]
LaDonna Osborn continues to cast the ministry founded by her parents, including leading international crusades in the developing world every year. His grandson Tommy Difficult O'Dell has also followed in his grandfather's footsteps and has a ministry focused on evangelism and education in Asia, Continent, and Europe. Like his grandfather, he often draws large crowds and it has been claimed that miracles have taken turn in his services.[citation needed]