TL Osborn

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TL Osborn

Tommy Lee Osborn (born December 23, 1923 in Pocasset, Oklahoma , † February 14, 2013 in Tulsa, Oklahoma ) was an American Pentecostal pastor , healing evangelist , television preacher and author.

Life

TL Osborn was born in 1923 as the seventh child of a non-practicing Baptist family in Pocasset, Oklahoma, and grew up in Skedee, Oklahoma from 1930. In 1937 he was converted to Christianity after a Pentecost service in Mannford, Oklahoma, and is said to have heard the voice of God soon after that he should become an evangelist. While visiting a church in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, he met the travel evangelist Oral Roberts , whose events he gave musical support for a while. Confident of his spiritual calling, he dropped out of school in 1939 and joined the travel evangelist EM Dillard, with whom he toured Oklahoma, Arkansas, and California . At one of their evangelism events in Los Banos, California , he met Daisy Washburn († 1995) in 1941, whom he married the following year. He traveled with his wife as a Pentecostal evangelist before pastoring the Montaville Tabernacles in Portland, Oregon in 1944 . His missionary zeal led him to India in 1945 , but he fell ill and had to return to the USA without success, where he temporarily served as a pastor of a Pentecostal church in McMinnville, Oregon , before moving back to Portland, Oregon in 1947. In November of that year, William Branham held a healing event in Portland as part of the Healing Revival , which Daisy Osborn attended. When she enthusiastically told her husband about Branham's teaching on healing, TL Osborn decided to practice spiritual healing as well. Like many other emerging healing evangelists, TL Osborn received support from Gordon Lindsay and The Voice of Healing . Osborn took William Branham as an example, as did his mentor and companion FF Bosworth , but in contrast to other healing evangelists, he emphasized not so much the end times but the love of God. Nonetheless, TL Osborn expected the imminent return of Christ and was close to the New Order of the Latter Rain movement. With the aim of winning as many people as possible to the faith, TL and Daisy Osborn founded the Osborn Ministries International Mission in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1949 , which set itself the task of worldwide mission and which followed the founding of the Association for Native Evangelism in 1953 .

Tommy Lee Osborn preaches in The Hague-523802

The missionary journeys of the Osborns took them to Central and South America , Europe , Africa and Asia. Their events were not infrequently attended by over 100,000 people. In 1951, TL Osborn published the book Healing the Sick , which had sold over 1 million copies by 2000. In addition to spreading the word, he used radio and television evangelism ( Good News Daily ).

TL Osborn died in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2013. His work is continued by his daughter, LaDonna C. Osborn, Osborn Ministries International and the Osborn National Missionary Assistance Program .

Fonts (selection)

  • Divine Healing Through Word Confession Power (1949)
  • Healing the Sick (1951)
  • Seven Steps to Receive Healing from Christ (1955)
  • Healing the Sick and Casting Out Devils (1955)
  • Healing en Masse (1958)
  • Soulwinning Out where the Sinners are (1967)
  • God's Love Plan
  • The Good Life
  • The Message That Works

literature

  • Moritz Fischer, Pentecostal movement between fragility and empowerment , V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2011
  • David Edwin Harrell, All things are possible: The Healing & Charismatic Revivals in modern America , Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana 1975
  • Edith Prakash, Yesterday, Today and Forever: The Extraordinary Ministry of TL Osborn in India , Seymour Press, 2018

Web links

Commons : TLOsborn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Edwin Harrell, All things are possible: The Healing & Charismatic Revivals in modern America , Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana 1975 (reprint 1978), p. 63
  2. ↑ Harrell 1975, p. 64
  3. ↑ Moritz Fischer, Pentecostal Movement Between Fragility and Empowerment , V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2011, p. 250
  4. ↑ Roy Weremchuk, THUS Saith the Lord? , Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2019, p. 135
  5. ↑ Fischer 2011, p. 246
  6. ↑ Harrell 1975, p. 65
personal data
SURNAME Osborn, TL
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osborn, Tommy Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Pentecostal pastor, healing evangelist
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Pocasset, Oklahoma
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 2013
Place of death Tulsa , Oklahoma