and in over 130 countries worldwide.Įvans has served as chaplain for the NFL's Dallas Cowboys and is a former NBA chaplain with the Dallas Mavericks.

Tony Evans, can be heard over 1,400 outlets daily throughout the U.S. The Urban Alternative radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. He also founded The Urban Alternative, a national organization that seeks to restore hope and transform lives through the proclamation and the application of the Word of God. Career Įvans founded the Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, in 1976 with 10 members meeting at his home. The reach of Tony’s preaching now spans the world, with his broadcasts airing on over 1,400 radio outlets and in over 130 countries, reaching millions each week.Įvans earned a BA at Carver College in 1972, a Th.M. Lois Evans, Senior Vice-President of TUA, the radio ministry grew nationally and internationally. Not too long after that appearance at NRB, radio stations began to air Dr. This drew enormous attention and encouragement to expand the ministry. In 1986, Tony was invited to preach at the National Religious Broadcasters annual conference. Evans used her business skills to organize, develop and expand the outreach and growth of the ministry. Lois Evans, co-founder of the ministry, began fulfilling orders. Evans’ sermons came in so frequently from his Houston and Dallas radio broadcasts that Mrs. Nearly a decade later, The Urban Alternative was formed in 1981 when requests for Dr. Recorded in a tiny studio on the seminary campus, Tony spent the next few years faithfully preaching into a microphone for a crowd unseen in Houston. Thus began the public broadcasting of Dr. One of Tony’s professors recommended him. program, asking for great preaching content to put on his program for free.

This man had contacted Dallas Theological Seminary, where Tony was a junior in the Th.M. In 1973, at the age of 24, Tony Evans was contacted by a radio show producer from Houston (KHCB). Evans serves as senior pastor to the over-9,500-member Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas. (born September 10, 1949) is an American Christian pastor, speaker, author, and widely syndicated radio and television broadcaster in the United States.

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