T. L.

Osborn
Tommy Lee "T.L." Osborn (December 23, 1923 – February 14, 2013) was an
T. L. Osborn
American Pentecostal evangelist, singer, author and teacher, whose established
ministry was based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[2][3][4] In his six decades of ministry, he
hosted the Good News Today program, who was also best known for his mass-
miracle ministry to millions. He was also the first missionary evangelist to attend
open fields or parks, in non-Christian nations, to proclaim Christ and to pray for
miracles as proof that "He is Alive."

Contents
Biography T. L. Osborn, 2001
Publications Born Tommy Lee Osborn
References December 23, 1923
External links Grady County,
Oklahoma, U.S.
Died February 14, 2013
Biography (aged 89)[1]
Tulsa, Oklahoma,
Tommy Lee Osborn was born on December 23, 1923, on the small family potato
U.S.
farm, 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 Nationality American
Brown) (1885–1951). His father, also a seventh son, was a nonpracticing traditional Occupation Evangelist, singer,
Baptist, "That's supposed to mean something," Osborn once commented, adding author, teacher and
"Turns out, it did mean something." His parents were musicians, as were several of designer
his brothers and sisters and Tommy Lee started making music at a very young age.
Years active 1949–2013
Growing up in the latter half of the 1920s, he saw his lar
ge family struggling through
Known for Author of books on
the depression years. In 1930, when Osborn was 6, his father moved the family to
Worldwide Miracles-
Skedee, Oklahoma, in search of another, more profitable farm. At a church in Sand
Evangelism and
Springs, Oklahoma, he met future televangelistOral Roberts, who would become his
Soul Winning
lifelong friend for over 70 years, until Roberts's death in 2009. Osborn frequently
Awakening in the
went with Roberts to help with evangelical meetings. Roberts did most of the
Developing Nations
preaching, Osborn did everything else, including playing the accordion and the
piano for the musical part of the meetings. Osborn had experienced a Christian Notable work Healing The Sick
conversion in 1937, at the age of 13, when his older brother took him to a Television Good News Daily
Pentecostal church in Mannford. Gradually, each of his six brothers moved out of the Title Doctor (honorary)
family home until TL was the only boy still living with his parents and helping his
Political Liberal conservative
60-year-old father on the potato farm. He admitted that he was reluctant, even
party
scared, to ask his father's permission to move out and begin traveling. Finally, while
sorting potatoes in the cellar, he plucked up courage to make the request and was Spouse(s) Daisy Washburn (m.
greatly surprised when his father said "yes."[5] 1942–1995; her
death)
In 1939, aged 15, Osborn was milking the cows when he began to cry. He fell on his
Children 2
knees, praying and asking God what was happening. The Lord, he said, called him to
Website www.osborn.org
be an evangelist, while he laughed and cried at the same time, overwhelmed by what
was happening to him. He dropped out of high school after completing eighth grade
and hit the road with E.M. Dillard, a traveling evangelist. Osborn was responsible for organising evangelistic meetings and was also
in charge of youth services in the evening. He traveled with Dillard through three states. The last one was California, and he met
[6]
Daisy Washburn, in Los Banos, California at one of the meetings. It was 1941 and he was only 17 when he fell instantly in love.

On April 5, 1942, Osborn married graduating high school student and farmer's girl, Daisy Washburn Osborn (born September 23,
1924 in Merced, California). He was 18, and she was only 17. Shortly thereafter, they set out on a life of ministry and missionary
travel, including a trip to India when Osborn was still only 21. In time, they carried the Gospel of Christ to tens of millions of people
all over the world, declaring it with faith and confidence.[7] However, that early mission in India, preaching at Lucknow, was not
fruitful. Their ministry lasted less than a year in India, and they returned home because of critical family sickness. In 1947, the
Osborns had their only daughter, LaDonna Osborn (b. March 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 India, as evangelists on the Big Tent Revival circuit in the United
States and Canada. There, they preached to audiences often numbering over 10,000, in open-air meetings and under large tents in
settings such as fairgrounds and stadiums. Other young contemporary evangelists, including Oral Roberts, Billy Graham, Jack Coe,
R.W. Schambach and A.A. Allen, were also on the circuit. The Osborns emphasised the love and compassion of God, rather than the
"fire and brimstone" commonly used by evangelists of the era, and they practiced
supernatural healing in their meetings.

By the early 1950s, their emphasis began to shift more and more toward international missions. They held large crusades in Latin
America, Asia, and Africa and crowds grew rapidly, at times exceeding 100,000. After Osborn's crusades in Thailand in 1956 and
Uganda in 1957, Pastor Fred Wantaate of Makerere Full Gospel Church said that "after that crusade in Mombasa, the fountain of the
river of Pentecostalism spread in the heart of East Africa".[8][9] Around that same time, he met another future televangelist, Marilyn
Hickey, 8 years Osborn's junior, with her new husband, Wallace. The young couple traveled around in her husband's car, conducting
tent revival meetings in various towns. Together, Osborn and Hickey prayed for the sick and she became a guest speaker at his
conferences. He was lifelong friends with her family until his death just 4 months after Hickey lost her husband,allace.
W

Over the course of the next 5 decades, Osborn and his team traveled to more than 70 countries and reached millions of people. They
created prolific quantities of evangelistic and training materials, some of which were translated into more than 80 languages.

Osborn's wife of 53 years, Daisy Osborn, died in T

ulsa, Oklahoma, on May 27, 1995, at age 70. Thereafter
, he continued to travel and
conduct crusades around the world for another 15 years. Osborn died on February 14, 2013, at the age of 89. According to his
daughter, LaDonna, he had been in good health until his body began weakening just a few days before he stopped breathing. He was
interred next to his wife at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma (the same cemetery where Oral Roberts had been
interred nearly 4 years earlier). Osborn was survived by his daughter
, three of four grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.

LaDonna Osborn continues to operate the ministry founded by her parents, including leading international crusades in the developing
world every year. His grandson Tommy Ray O'Dell, has also followed in his grandfather's footsteps and has a ministry focused on
evangelism and education in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Like his grandfather, he often draws large crowds and it has been claimed that
miracles have taken place in his services.

Publications
3 Keys to the Book of Acts (1960)
Biblical Healing (1954)
Faith Speaks (1982)
Frontier Evangelism with Miracles of Healing (1955)
Healing The Sick (1951)
Health Renewed: The Source of Sickness and God's Redemptive Plan (2012)
How to Be Born Again (1977)
If I Were a Woman (2011)
In His Name (1981)
Legacy of Faith Collection (2011)
 Miracles: Proof of God's Love (2003)
One Hundred Divine Healing Facts (1983)
Outside the Sanctuary. The Case for Soulwinning (1969)
Receive Miracle Healing (1984)
Soulwinning. A Classic on Evangelism (1963)
The Best of Life (1986)
The Big Love Plan (1984)
The Good Life (1994)
The Gospel According to T. L. & Daisy. Classic Documentary (1985)
The Message That Works: What We Have Told Millions in 73 Nations for 53 Years (1997)
The Power of Positive Desire (1996)
The Purpose of Pentecost (1963)
There’s Plenty for You (1986)
You Are God’s Best (1984)

References
1. "Deaths - 2/16/2013" (http://www.tulsaworld.com/ourlives/article.aspx?subjectid=56&articleid=20130216_56_A18_TL
Asly472016&allcom=1). Tulsa World. Retrieved 2013-02-16.
2. "Evangelist, Crusade Focusing on Atheism"(https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/967951462.html?dids=96
7951462:967951462&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jun+21%2C+1969&author=&pub=Hartford+C
ourant&desc=Evangelist%2C+Crusade+Focusing+on+Atheism&pqatl=google) . The Hartford Courant. Hartford,
Conn. June 21, 1969. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
3. "Le "pasteur miracle" américain attire en masse les évangéliques"(http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20060828.FIG00000
0051_le_pasteur_miracle_americain_attire_en_masse_les_evangeliques.html) . Le Figaro (in French). Paris. August
28, 2006. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
4. Eric Bureau, Carole Sterlé and Laure Pelé (August 28, 2006)."5 000 fidèles pour la croisade évangélique"(http://ww
w.leparisien.fr/val-de-marne/5-000-fideles-pour-la-croisade-evangelique-28-08-2006-2007279370.php) . Le Parisien
(in French). Paris. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
5. "How TL Osborn Really To Touch And Shake" (http://www.gospelepistle.com/2015/11/how-tl-osborn-really-to-touch-a
nd-shake.html). Gospel Epistle. November 2015. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
6. "Biography of T.L. Osborn" (http://healingandrevival.com/BioTLOsborn.htm)
. Healing And Revival. 2010. Retrieved
February 22, 2016.
7. "TL Osborn Dies at 89"(http://z3news.com/w/tl-osborn-dies-89). Z3News.com. 2013-02-16. Retrieved February 22,
2016.
8. Lumu, David Tash (January 20, 2010)."50 years of Pentecostalism in Uganda — Sizzling Faith"(http://www.observe
r.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6879:50-years-of-pentecostalism-in-uganda&catid=43:sizzling
&Itemid=71). The Observer. Uganda. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
9. http://spreadtheflame.com/2013/02/t-l-osborn-and-thailand

External links
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