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My day started early and is ending late. It is about 3:00 am and I am just finishing most of the CD project I have about three more songs to record on the project.

Rhonda and I started out early this morning driving about 90 miles to Spiro, OK where we are thinking of putting up the gospel tent. We met with a friend of ours Brenda Jeffery. She is an incridible preacher and prophetess. She took me to look at some land and it was a great location.

Rhonda and I then went to Fort Smith to do some shopping and eat dinner. On the way back from Fort Smith which is about an hour and a half away from home. We stopped in Waldron and met with some friends for about and hour.

When I got back home Rhonda had to go to her home away from home (Wal-Mart)

When she got back I started recording again. Needless to say I am very tired.

I also talked to a friend about putting the gospel tent up at Branson, MO or around the Branson area. We would offer a nightly concert free of charge. Not long after that a dear friend of mine called from Pueblo CO about us putting up a tent the middle of July. The summer is really shaping up.

The middle of next week I will be going to Bobby Hogan's Anniversary Camp Meeting. Then I will spend the next week at Texas Road Worship Center where they will be in revival for that week.

If you would be interested in us coming and doing a tent revival in your area please contact us. Our email addy is located on our web page http://www.thesentones.org/

I did recieve a pleasant surprise. While I was working on the CD project I recieved a phone call from one of my spiritual sons in Uganda Africa. His name is Rock and he is working so hard to build the Kingdom of God. I have several pastors who would love for someone to sponsor their work in Africa. If you are interested please let me know.

Revivalist TJ Tipton

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Sometimes I wonder where does time go. Today has went by so fast I am wondering where did it go. I know what David meant when he said that, "life is but a vapor."

Today I recorded more songs for our next music CD project. Some of the songs on this project is Preach the Word, If That Mountain Dont Move, Child of the Light, Did I Forget to Pray, How Great Thou Art, and I'm Still Holding On. Rhonda is going to record a song also, Feel the Nails. Three more songs and it will be a wrap.

Tomorrow I will be leaving for the Fort Smith area to start looking for some land to put up the tent. We want to start April 18th that is on a Friday night. Rhonda and I have been talking about putting our product on the internet. We have so many things that we sell on our table. Besides the five CD's that we sell that we have recorded over the past five years. We also have Christian T-Shirts. We also have anointing oil from Israel as well as DVD of services that we have preached. One of the most exciting things we will be adding in the next couple of weeks will be a CD of Smith Wigglesworth. It will be a three CD set of him ministering.

I also have one of the largest DVD libraries of AA Allen that I have seen. I am constantly adding more DVD's all the time. I also have some Jack Coe and CD's of great tent preachers.

A.A. Allen

I am also praying that there will be some doors opened for us to go and minister at some churches. We have churches that we go to every year, but we are praying for more to open up. If you are a pastor and would be interested in The Sent Ones coming and ministering at your church please contact me at apostletj@google.com and I will send you a DVD of a recent service.

I guess I better be getting in bed it is late and I have to get up early to head to Spiro, OK then to Fort Smith. I will let you know how it went on tomorrows blog

Revivalist TJ Tipton

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PRAISE THE LORD! After trial and errorI finally got my digital studio to work. Today I have been so busy. When I woke up I knew I had to get the letters to our covenant partners out today. After printing, stuffing and licking envelopes it was time for church. I don't know about other full time evangelists or revivalists but I find it very important to attend church even when I am off the road. If I am not attending "The Country Church," I am attending, "Christ for the World" in Fort Smith, AR.

I did get to cut a couple of songs today. I also got two of the triplets, Colton and Faith, singing Jesus on the Main Line.

Colton loves to sing and everytime I sing when I preach he does the same. His favorite song is, "Let Revival Roll." The old saying, "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" is true when it comes to Colton.

Colton singing at New Life Church in Wewoka, OK

I worked a little on the RV Camper. We need something bigger. I don't know what, but it needs a lot of storage. I am usually hauling our center pole for our Gospel Tent as well as the Peavy SP-5's in the RV. This makes it very cramped and I spend a lot of time getting stuff out of the camper just so we can make beds or clean the camper. But just as God supplied this camper, He will supply another one.

I am also trying to figure how to get the most out of Google Adsense. I know that whatever we make off of Adsense is going to bless many in other churches and other countries.

Its late and I have not read the Bible for today. Please pray that God will open doors for us to put up the tent across OK, MO, CO, and wherever else we need to go.

Revivalist TJ Tipton

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This is the day that the Lord has made I will rejoice and be glad in it. No matter how your day goes it is still the day that the Lord has made. I dreamed all night of wires I would need to make my Tascam US 122-L to work. What a miserable night!

They also sent a recording software Cubase. IT WILL NOT WORK. The advertisement said just hook it up and you have sound. RIGHT! Any ways I have messed with it most of the day and it does not work. I even tried to load the software into another computer that I have. That was even a bigger mess. I am praying that someone reads this can help me.

I am also in the process of sending out my monthly newsletter. We send out about 70 covenant partner letters. We love and appreciate our partners. They are very dear to Rhonda and I. I try to get them out by the 25th of each month and I am late this month. I will have them in the mail box by tomorrow evening.

I am becoming very excited about the tent meetings. I love preaching under the tent. The tent is a 40X40 it is not a huge tent but I have seen 60X120's with only 20 people in them and the preacher would start lowering the tent curtains so you couldnt see how few of people were under his tent.

If you have a low turnout in my tent it still looks good. (laugh out loud) We are wanting to purchase a 49X70. The amount to purchase a new one is about $6500.00 and that would be about half of my African mission trip. I guess I will hold off. I know that God is going to help us.

I know He has certian people that can take care of most of our ministry needs. I got a confirmation on some land today in Tahlequah, OK. We are planning on being there in June. We had a great tent revival there last year. Barry and Sandra Tucker helped us with the music and we usually had around 50 people a night with sometimes more.

I am also praying that God will move on a company or a person to give us a gas card. Fuel is becoming a burden to many ministries. I have a friend who is also a revivalist and in his last newsletter I got from him, he was stating that unless God intervenes he was not going to be able to continue what he is doing for the kingdom of God. He just could not continue to afford the price of gas.

Praise God for his power to overcome. Many are the afflictions of the righteous but God delivers them from them all.

Revivalist TJ Tipton

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Today was a good break for me. I have not preached as much as I would have liked at this point of the year. Rhonda and I resigned from River of Life Church, November of 2006. By the end of 2007 I had preached over 206 times. I was only at home 2.5 months last year.

This year I have preached 40 times and wanting more. It is amazing how ones calling drives them. I honestly know what the writer meant when he said, "I'd rather spend one day in His courts than thousands elsewhere."

God has blessed us greatly this year. We have been praying for a diesel truck and Rhonda wanted RED. I had a preacher friend take me to a car auction and I bid on a RED Ford F-250 and I won the bid. Rhonda was so happy it was RED.

The Red blood of Jesus Ford F-250.

Today I spent some time in the Word. I try to spend time in the Bible without looking for a sermon. I am on a 365 day Bible reading program.

I am getting ready to start our Gospel Tent season. I am also getting the RV ready for the road again. We try to keep it prepared at all times but there is a little work I have to do. I have had two blowouts in the past 4 months and both were on the same side and it took off the tire guards on the camper.

Tent Revival - Tahlequah, OK - July 2007

Apparently it had happend before because the other side is the same way. I told Rhonda at least they match. It did not enthuse her to say the least.

I also checked out some prices to fly to Uganda and Kenya Africa. This will be my third trip and I can't wait. My budget will triple this year because of all I will be doing. I will be holding at least 4 pastor conferences and several outside crusades.

Outdoor Crusade - Kagoma, Uganda

Most of the offerings that come in from this point will go towards the Africa Mission trip. My family goes without so others can recieve. I do appreciate their commitment to the call of God in my life. I know there is coming a day where it wont be so difficult to raise monies for Uganda.

The last thing I want to share is the frustration that I have faced today. I was suppose to start recording my new singing CD project, "Preach the Word." Unfortunatley I cannot get my laptop to work. It is very frustrating. The basic problem is I cant get the Tascam to work with the program that came with the Tascam. Tomorrow I will make a trip to Radio Shack. I wish they were open 24 hours I would have already got it done.

Revivalist TJ Tipton

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Resurrection Sunday

Colton Faith Rebekah

I have never been much of a morning person because I love staying up in the wee hours of the morning working, praying, reading the Bible. preparing sermons and yes sometimes watching a good western.

Today was no different. I think when the alarm went off at 8:00 am I had been in bed about 3 hours. So the rush is on to get the triplets ready and then Rhonda and I take the rest of the time getting ourselves ready.

We have had a good revival at the Country Church. We have so many friends and family when we go there. Every service was filled with the love of Christ and the power of the Holy Ghost.

This morning I preached on the Power of the Ressurection. In short, the same overcoming power that raised Christ from the dead is still availabel to the Church today to overcome problems in every day life.

There were several there that had not been in church for years. When I gave the invitation to ask the Father for His help and to draw closer to Him at least 8 hands went up.

One never knows the eternal outcome by preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. What a privelage it is to get to preach the cross.

After services today we did the normal Easter dinner and the hunting of eggs with the triplets.

I made a few phone calls and we are planning for a tent revival in Spiro, OK in the middle of April. I am also getting ready for a friends camp meeting in Fort Smith, AR. This camp meeting is a powerful and prophetic meeting. People will come from all over the world. My friend Bobby Hogan has two every year. I will be preaching at the summer camp meeting, fourth of July weekend.

Tomorrow I will be going into the studio to start working on a new singing CD project, I am calling, "Preach the Word." I am also hoping to finish this week my new book, "When Faith touches the Anointing."

Revivalist TJ Tipton