David Tinney

How it started: David was raised in an entrepreneurial home. His father bought an oil distributorship and when he reached retirement age started a business building computers and another as in internet service provider. David drove a truck and worked with his father during his youth. David was saved at the age of 26 in 1979 and had a reputation for being zealous. He taught Sunday school in his church and was often invited to fill pulpits for pastors on vacation. David’s denomination on met on Sundays so he went with his Grandmother to a Pentecostal church on Sunday evening and Wednesday nights. He was filled with the Holy Spirit and his zeal took on a mission emphasis. In 1983 he was attending a Word of Faith church that hosted a pastor from the Philippines. As David watched the video he began to weep and at the pastor’s invitation committed to going to the Philippines. In 1985 he spent 10 days there. God used him in amazing ways as he taught in the Bible College; healing, words of wisdom and baptism in the Holy Spirit. He hadn’t experienced the difference in anointing on the mission field before. Friends have always encouraged him to go to Bible school and get in the ministry; David had the wisdom to stay within his calling to the marketplace as a King.

In 1988 David married Judy and started a Travel agency to help missionaries in 1991. In 1995, hey were given tickets to Europe as a reward and took a trip to Estonia. The Lord showed David he would be ministering to Russian speaking people. In the fall of 1995 he went to Ukraine and helped start a church – and felt totally at home.

David started his arboriculture business in 2005 as a way to help people recover from hurricane Katrina. It has continued to prosper. He also began ministering a Kingly message on business in Ukraine. Since 2001 he's conducted over 100 seminars in Ukraine, Poland, Belgium and Germany. The transcript of one conference was edited into a book released in 2003 that has become a best seller in former Soviet Union. E-books and online income have developed into a third business used to support missions.

Personal Passion: David loves to help people and their businesses. His personal goals have a humanitarian flavor; he loves to help widows, orphans and under-privileged children. David believes the blessing of God for prosperity flows toward those who do according to proverbs (Proverbs 11:25, 19:17, 22:9). David met one businessman (Andrei Berezenets) in Ukraine that asked for mentoring. David went into the cosmetics store and after interacting with the employees. David suggested having the employees over for dinner to announce some changes. He gave them seven suggestions; the main one was teach people to be friendly, smile, and serve their customers. The bottom line doubled in the first 6 weeks. The businessman has since expanded to several stores, invested in real estate and has become a millionaire in Ukraine. He shares David’s heart for God. The profits are used in a children’s hospital for cancer victims that wouldn’t otherwise receive care or medication.

Personal Benefit: David has the blessing of being used by God in something he enjoys doing. When he ministers in the Ukraine his Kingly message flows out of his business experience with little preparation. It feels like being in the exact center of God’s will.

Value to others: The cosmetics store owner became a millionaire and named a son after David. In many ways the believers in the Ukraine are ahead of Christians in the US… having investment clubs and training for investing, FOREX trading, and real estate.

Business Potential (upside): David is enjoying success in all three of his businesses. His travel business runs independently through a manager he hired. David’s strength is marketing that flows from his outgoing personality and love for people. When he started his arboriculture business he had a natural advantage because his competitors were typically weak at knowing how to market themselves. The arboriculture business gravitated back home after the first year from an emphasis on disaster recovery to servicing upscale retirement properties in Oklahoma.

Complexities, failures (downside): Due to the radical change over the last decade in the travel industry, David's travel agency isn't as profitable as in the beginning. They have enlarged their niche to include vacations and honeymoon planning to compensate.

Vision for the Kingdom: David’s personal experience is receiving an invitation from the Lord to work with Him to build the Kingdom. David sees the Kingdom advancing through the business realm in the marketplace; teaching people to prosper and minister. Africa is ripe for the kind of anointing he has seen in the former Soviet Union. David has and believes in an aggressive mentality to possess the kingdom using wealth to make advances in the marketplace in the releasing the ministry of individual Kings.

Impact from Releasing Kings: David read Releasing Kings while starting his tree business after Katrina. It confirmed his concept of Kingly worship as working in the marketplace. Priests anointed Kings for battle and released their ministry. However, priests were never used to expand the Kingdom.

How Can David Help You: David has a decade of experience Releasing Kings in Eastern Europe. God is positioning him to release a model for establishing businesses and prosperity and a normal part of missions work. We’re not just sharing the theory of “good news.” Reformation includes breaking the stronghold of poverty in a culture.

David travels to Ukraine several times a year to conduct business conferences. He often takes businessmen with him to help teach. Without exception, American businessmen have returned home with a renewed sense of purpose and destiny in the Kingdom of God. Contact David if interested in participating in conferences overseas.

I'm excited about Marketplace Ministry. You may not be aware of it, but Judy and I have been ministering in Ukraine and other Eastern European nations for almost 13 years. Since 2001, I've taught almost exclusively about business and how to prosper God's way. We've seen many Ukrainians break-out of the poverty mentality and enter into the Kingdom blessings.

Here's why I'm excited today. Next month, Sep. 26-28, I'm teaming up with a Danish and an Englishman to conduct a business conference in western Ukraine. It's not just for church people. Representatives from the local and regional government will be present as well as business people who belong to the large Baptist church in Lutsk. From Lutsk, we'll go to Lviv and minister in Pastor Leysa and Sasha's church. I've known and ministered with them for several years. They are dear friends of both Poul and I.

Poul, the man from Denmark who is organizing the conference, and I met over three years ago. He has been working in Ukraine for a long time. He found my website and saw I was going to be in Brussels Belgium ministering. He contacted me by email and asked if he could come to Brussels to meet me. Of course, I said it would be great. We met there and have been friends since. We found out we're loosely connected through Pastor Sunday Adelaja. Poul has organized national men's meeting in Denmark and had Pastor Sunday as the main speaker. We've been working with Pastor Sunday & Bishop Belonozhko and their churches since 1999, my ordination and ministry credentials are through their organization.

The third twine in this rope is Alistair Whitmoor-Pryer of Exeter, United Kingdom. Alistair is Poul's friend, I've only had the opportunity to speak to him through email. He's authored a book called, "Kingdom Business" and travels throughout the world speaking about financial freedom and how it practically relates to the Kingdom of God. I do know this, God has connected the three of us for such a time as this. Ukraine has been experiencing spiritual and economic reformation for almost 10 years. Now, Ukrainians are exporting missionaries to the world with the Gospel of the Kingdom. What the three of us teach is integral for the continuance of the reformation. Jesus said, "Whom the Son sets free is free indeed". I believe He meant that in the fullest sense. Free spiritually, physically, mentally, economically, socially; in whatever sphere you want, we ARE free!

Poul has started a website, http://www.kingdombiz.com/, to keep track of what we're doing. Check there often to see what the three of us are up to. Meanwhile, you can stay connected to me and what I'm up to through http://www.DavidTinney.com and http://www.Tinney.biz