About Tommy Ray

Preaching the Gospel. Seeing Lives Changed.  

For more than forty-five years, Tommy Ray O’Dell has carried the Gospel into more than one hundred nations, proclaiming that Jesus Christ still saves, heals, restores, and sets people free.

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His ministry began while he was still a young man. By nineteen, Tommy Ray and his wife, Elisabeth, were conducting miracle crusades and Gospel concerts across Africa and South America, combining music, preaching, and prayer to reach people far beyond the walls of traditional churches.

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Since then, millions have heard the message of Christ through his ministry. Tommy Ray has preached on city platforms and in remote villages, taught in churches and conferences, ministered inside prisons, encouraged children and families, and traveled into communities where few others were willing or able to go.

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He has witnessed lives transformed in ways that cannot be reduced to theory: addictions broken, bodies healed, families restored, prisoners finding hope, and people encountering the presence of God. For Tommy Ray, miracles are not entertainment or religious spectacle. They are expressions of God’s compassion and living evidence that Jesus remains present and active in the world.

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Tommy Ray is the grandson of renowned evangelist T. L. Osborn, but his own ministry has been shaped by decades of obedience, hardship, faith, and direct experience on the mission field. His message is simple and uncompromising: God is real, His love reaches the forgotten, and no person is too wounded, distant, or lost to be restored.