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David Tinney

Personal
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.
The core teaching of David
Tinney is available in digital format at:
www.DavidTinney.com/book.html
Other websites:
www.TravConnect.com
www.DavidTinney.net
www.CheapTicketToLondon.com
www.Tinney.biz
Update from David
I've made a new post on the blog, titled
The Kingdom and Marketplace Ministry:
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!
Thanks for taking the time to read
this far. I appreciate your prayer support, Ask Judy, she knows I
need it. ha!
I wish you the best and God's richest
blessings as we come to the close of this summer.
Kingdom Blessings,
David & Judy Tinney
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