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I could fill up a page with all the TL stories. I have always known TL from the late 50s when he would preach crusades in the Atlanta area and my Dad would go work with him. He was bigger than life to many of us through our youth. When I arrived at Lee, he was the pastor at North Cleveland. Almost every preacher's kid used to enjoy mimicking him. He was a unique guy that had a passion for the things of God. He's one of those guys that I never know to do anything like golf, for example, outside of ministry. I'm sure he did, but I was never aware of it.

So true Mike.Bro. Lowery came to Tifton with the big tent when I was about 14. I was born with crossed eyes, (I am all but blind in one eye). I went up for prayer. Bro Lowery took the card I handed him and threw it over his shoulder without reading it. I had something else I want him to pray for.He turned me to the crowd and said; take a good look at this young mans eyes. He prayed for me then turned me back to the crowd. They started shouting. I had no idea why, until he said; son your eyes are as straight as mine. I knew another pastors son that had the same problem, he was also healed.I find something very interesting about his death this morning. I was in the altar this morning and prayed. I said; Lord I have had great men like T L Lowery pray for my blind eye, it would be amazing if you opened it today. When I got home I read that he had died today.I do not understand why the Lord straightened my eyes but did not take away the blindness. But I love Him and will serve Him if I an never healed again. As the old song said; I don't have to understand, I just need to hold His hand.Thank you Bro. Lowery for many years of faithful ministry. You are loved and will be greatly missed Recorded Sermons @ www.pastorwiley.com

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TLL was a huge influence on me over the past 35 years! I really became aware of him when he came in National in 1981. On his first Sunday there were 59 people. By the following Easter the church had over 800 people in that service. Those were some very exciting days.TLL always had big plans. He was not afraid to think big. One of the greatest things I learned from him was to not be afraid to think big. I am talking about in my personal life. I have been fortunate and have had to opportunity to do well. A big part of the credit goes to TL Lowery!

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Only got to be with the guy while a Lee student. His office at the HQ was always open - and he welcomed me to stop by.He loved people. His very ministry dealt with touching folks physically. I wish every minister loved being with people like he did

In 1990, I went to the Western North Carolina Campmeeting. Dennis McGuire was the State Overseer then. Bro. Lowery was the night evangelist. I had just arrived shortly after the Florida State Campmeeting. Man, I felt like I had stepped in a time warp and went back 10 or so years--back when the Florida Campmeeting was truly the Grandaddy of them all! It was CRAZY GOOD! The singing. The people. The fellowship (I slept in a dorm and had wonderful fellowship with some of the retired ministers that also stayed there).What a blessing I and many other received from Bro. Lowery's ministry. Wow!Then, some years later, he came to some churches in North Florida. I was asked to come and play as part of the band. The level of worship in the place was just unreal. People were showing up EXPECTING things to happen! And when Bro. Lowery got ready to ministry, things surely did happen!At another church (I may have told this before), I went to see Bro. Lowery. I had been out of work for some time. My wife had been out of work (having suffered a slight stroke--temporary, thank the Lord). I would be out of full-time work for 2.5 years. We were living off of my embarrassingly modest IRA which had been rolled over from my 401(k) when I lost my job due to the economic downturn. Let's just say it was tight.Then, during the meeting with Bro. Lowery, God spoke to my heart: Give $1000 dollars. WHAT??? God apparently hadn't gotten the memo that I was out of job!But I dared not disobey. There was something also about being able to make sure this Pentecostal message--in the style that many of us grew up with--would be able to go other places and preach the gospel.I didn't have it to spare, but I did it. I didn't dare want to go to sleep wondering if I should have. My peace of mind is worth a $1000 any day of the week--in fact, it's priceless.Long story short, over the period of time, God told me to give $1000 to other ministries! I want to be clear: I was NOT doing it trying desperately to get a blessing from God! I was doing it ONLY because I felt that Lord laid it on my heart. But this is the honest truth: I never put a single penny into the IRA above what I started with. We withdrew no telling how much to help cover our expenses, and at the same time, God spoke to me to give at least two offerings of $1000. AND YET, WHEN IT WAS OVER, I HAD MORE!!! THAN WHEN I STARTED!Folks, I believe I could have thrown a dart at the newspaper and invested in whatever stock I hit, and God would have blessed it because I had obeyed him! I wasn't poorer than when I started--I was RICHER! And I owe God all the glory.I wanted to tell that story because T.L. Lowery was the one who opened my heart to do it. I remember sitting on the stage and weeping, wishing the everyone could experience Pentecost like I was seeing in the service that night. When God told me to give, it wasn't easy, but if felt that if T.L. Lowery was enabled in some way by my gift to go a little farther and preach the gospel, then it had to be the best investment I ever made!Since then, my investment ability had been pretty much pitiful. Ha! But when I needed God's provision the most--and when it seemed I had the least--God stepped in and MADE SURE we didn't run out of what we needed. Not only did the barrel not go empty...it even had more in it that when I started.

My husband was children's pastor at National for a year. This is one of my favorite memories of Pastor Lowery.While there, I sang with a group called The Word. As the only non-African American in the group, I learned a new style of music (which I loved) that was very different than the Southern Gospel I'd grown up with. We were invited to accompany Pastor Lowery to a church in Kentucky where he was preaching. I believe it was Janice Claypoole's church. Aside from the gas, we were each responsible for our own expenses while on the trip. The services were awesome, and Pastor Lowery preached as only he can. On the way back, we stopped at a Cracker Barrel restaurant for dinner, and someone asked Pastor Lowery if he would pay for our meal after singing all weekend. He said, OK, but you've got to sing for your supper. So we all stood up right in the middle of that busy Cracker Barrel and sang one of our songs. You could have heard a pin drop. As soon as we were done, everyone burst into applause. But he bought our supper that night. Pastor Lowery was definitely one of a kind, and he loved to preach more than anything in the world More of Him...less of me.twitter.com/camiracle77www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=691241499&ref=name

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