T. L. Osborn, born Tommy Lee Osborn , was an evangelical Christian missionary born on December 23, 1923 near the village of Pocassett in Oklahoma, United States, and died on February 14, 2013 (at age 89). He is primarily known for his evangelistic, healing and miracle sessions.

He preached outdoors, in parks, stadiums, before crowds ranging from twenty to three hundred thousand people. During his ministry, he traveled to 78 countries and all continents.

The son of an Oklahoma farmer, he was born on December 23, 1923, the seventh son in a family of thirteen children. In 1937, after visiting a Pentecostal church, he was converted at the age of 13. He claims that at the age of 14, in the midst of his cows, he received the revelation that God had chosen him to preach the gospel, but it was by playing the piano that he accompanied the “revival meetings” of the Oklahoma assemblies. At the age of 16, he left his family and decided to follow the preacher of his church. This led him to meet Daisy Washburn in a small church in California. At 18, he married Daisy.

After his marriage, T.L. Osborn and his wife Daisy began preaching the gospel in 1945, on a first missionary trip to India3. For them: it was a failure, the couple did not succeed in spreading their message and convincing the Muslims and Hindus. Back in Oregon, they were elected pastors by their church in Portland.

The trigger, T.L. Osborn says, came from 4 visions: The first through a “vision of Jesus” (Jesus Christ entered his room, he was immobilized by His power); the second through a vision of “Jesus in a person” (that of William Marrion Branham); the third by seeing “Jesus in His Word” (The Bible); and finally, by discovering “Jesus at work in him” (through healings and conversions).

In the summer of 1947, he met William Marrion Branham at an evangelistic meeting in Portland, Oregon. TL Osborn will say that this moment was the main turning point in his spiritual life.” I heard evangelist William Branham explain about healing what I had never heard before in my life…My whole life and ministry were changed in a few hours.” A thousand voices seemed to swirl over my head, saying, “You can do it! You can do it! You don’t have the same gift of healing as this man, but you can do it!”

In February 1949, the Osborns began their world crusade in Kingston, Jamaica, where they stayed for 13 weeks. Then the countries would follow one another on all continents: March 1951 Puerto Rico in Ponce; January 1952 Cuba in Camaguey; from February on, South America with Venezuela in Punto Fijo; in July 1954, the Asian continent with Indonesia, Thailand and Japan. The African continent from January 1957, with Ibadan in Nigeria. Europe from August 1958, during a first gathering in Rennes, he was invited by Pastor Clément Le Cossec, of the Mission Évangélique des Tziganes de France – Vie et Lumière en France.

Four years later, it was in Lille in 1962 that Clément Le Cossec invited the American evangelist. This great gathering allowed the development of vocations, like that of the Gypsy evangelist Raphael Duval. In fact, T.L. Osborn learned the French language and is now fluent in it, which sometimes allows him to preach in French.” I love France, and this is God’s time to heal this country; this country has a place to take in God’s plan for this world,” Dr. Osborn proclaims.

On May 27, 1995, his wife Daisy passed away. T.L. Osborn decided to continue his ministry with his daughter LaDonna who had the same passion for “mass evangelism”. Their first destination was Eastern Europe, in June 1996, to the ten largest cities in Russia, including Moscow. The money from Daisy’s life insurance will be used to publish 22 tons of books translated into Russian.

In August 2006, two open-air evangelistic meetings gathered 8,000 to 10,000 people on the esplanade of Vincennes in Paris. At the end of the meetings, people brought their crutches, prostheses of all kinds, or their wheelchairs, to materialize their healing. He died on February 14, 2013 at the age of 89.

The OSFO International Foundation, established in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1949, publishes T.L. Osborn’s books, films and audio recordings. His first book, Healing the Sick and Casting Out Devils, written in 1949, was published in 1951 with over one million copies and distributed free of charge during his missions. Most of the books have been translated into over 130 languages and the films and tapes into almost 80 languages.