J. Clifton Briscoe graduated with honors from the University of Oklahoma and Oral Roberts University where he completed a Masters of Divinity. He had a radical encounter with Jesus at twenty years of age and three years later experienced the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Briscoe established Living Word Church in Shawnee, OK. where he pastored for more than four decades. His ministry has taken him to the streets of his city, to television and radio in central Oklahoma, and to the nations of the world, including Albania, Mexico, India, Ghana, Nicaragua, Argentina and Jamaica.