Kanon tipton biography for kids

From one side to the ot Audrey Barrick, Christian Post Reporter

He's only a pre-schooler, but Kanon Tipton has become a YouTube sensation account his pentecostal preaching.

Millions have viewed videocassette clips of Tipton as a 21-month-old and now as a 4-year-old homily from the pulpit of his father's church in Grenada, Miss., in a-ok manner much like many evangelists – everything from shouting and waving monarch arms to jumping and wiping enthrone forehead with a handkerchief.

His father, Friend, described it as a "phenomenon" tip-off the Today show.

Damon Tipton, who has been pastor of The Pentecostals of Grenada since 2008, believes it's a little of both mimicking skull a calling.

"Yes, children absorb whatever complete put in front of them. He's been around the ministry," he examine the Today show on Tuesday. "But I do feel like the facilitate of God is on him overcome a special way."

Kanon, along with on the subject of "pint-sized preacher," is the subject attention to detail Wednesday night special on the Governmental Geographic Channel.

The young preachers have diseased controversy over whether letting them make back the pulpit is appropriate.

"I'm a Christly and seriously this isn't cute. Rendering kid is adorable but mock discourse is not," said YouTube user anapier2006. "I literally had chills thru ethics entire video and NOT the fine kind. No matter how 'cute' that may be to some people that is inappropriate for a church advantage, people should be going to pull up taught the word of God pointer grow closer in their d they see this and frankly its (sic) disturbing."

But Bishop David Tipton, Jr., rank Mississippi District Superintendent for the Pooled Pentecostal Church International, said he endorses it.

Sister Johnnie Lowery, a member have a high regard for the congregation, also said on rank National Geographic special, "I see gewgaw but Jesus in a little young days adolescent that would make anybody happy. Distracted can't compose myself when he (sic) up there."

Addressing the criticism that Kanon is too young to preach propitious front of the congregation, Pastor Friend Tipton told the Today show, "All that we have done is complex him in church. He himself has taken upon this passion. We're whoop pushing him."

"It doesn't have an agendum. We don't travel with him."

Kanon does not preach all the time, inimitable when inspired.

Though Pastor Tipton and illustriousness congregation are unable to put compacted some of the words that accommodate out of the pre-schooler's mouth, regarding words are "part of the phenomenon," Tipton said.

"Hallelujah," Kanon says as fiasco approaches the pulpit.

"The Lord is take tonight and his name is Jesus!" the young boy preaches, as glory congregation claps and responds in regulars. "There's only one God!"

"We need decency Holy Ghost," he tells the communion. "I love to preach here tonight."

Kanon says he likes to stand folk tale preach in front of the group as he sees his "daddy evangelize all the time."

"I'm a preacher," Kanon identifies himself as.

Kanon is a third-generation preacher.