Sammy Tippit

Since 2016, Sammy Tippit preached evangelistic and discipleship training events in India, Pakistan, Africa, and South America via Skype technology. He has preached evangelistic events from his home to live audiences in India with up to 25,000 in attendance. He has created discipleship videos for social media pages for 12 language groups. The pages have an average of 6,500,000 views every month. He partnered with the Multiplying Church Movement in Brazil during May 2019 to provide a one-month video, audio and text curriculum. More than 1,000,000 people went through the daily Praying for Your Family series during the month. He has established partnerships with churches and ministries around the world and plans to train up to 10,000,000 Christians to share Christ with five friends and family members during May 2020.

The following are personal data highlights:

Born in 1947 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Participated in study group from Louisiana at the United Nations in 1964. He was awarded “Most Outstanding Youth Speaker in North America.”
Graduated from Istrouma High School in 1965.
Experienced his “conversion” to Christianity and call to ministry during August 1965.
Married to Debara “Tex” Sirman on June 8, 1968. The Tippits have two children, Dave and Renee, and five grandchildren.
Ordained as a Southern Baptist Minister in 1968.
Founded evangelistic organization, God’s Love In Action, in 1970. (Now called Sammy Tippit Ministries)
Began street ministry in high-crime district of Chicago in 1970, working with gangs, drug addicts, and troubled youth. Became known as leader of “Jesus Movement” in Chicago.
Traveled internationally to Germany for evangelistic youth rallies in 1971.
Collaborated with Jerry Jenkins (writer of Billy Graham’s best-selling autobiography, Just As I Am, and co-author of the best-selling fiction series, Left Behind) in 1972 on the biography of Sammy’s early life.
Infiltrated “Communist Youth World Fest” in 1973 and shared the gospel among the 100,000 youth gathered.
Traveled extensively in communist-dominated countries doing evangelistic ministry from 1973 – 1988. Preached first evangelistic stadium crusade in the history of Romania in May 1990.
Preached first Republic-wide evangelistic meetings in Moldova in September 1990.
Preached first evangelistic stadium meetings in numerous cities throughout Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Albania, and Moldova.
Preached first public outdoor evangelistic meetings in Mongolia in 1992.
Received honorary doctorates from Lancaster Bible College in 1993, Irpin Biblical Seminary in Kiev, Ukraine in 2016, and Bethel Univesity in South Bend, Indiana in 2019.
Preached evangelistic meeting in Rwanda shortly after the attempted genocide