In 1954, my mother began holding prayer meetings in our home in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. The prayer meetings grew too large to continue to be held in our home. One of the brothers who frequently attended the prayer meetings took the initiative to locate a small facility. The meetings moved to that small building, which was a house that had been converted to accommodate all those attending the meetings. This was the beginning of The Revival Center House of Prayer.

She began reaching out to the homeless shortly after relocating to Tulsa from Okmulgee in the mid 1960’s. I watched Mom minister seven days a week to more than one hundred homeless men each day at her House of Prayer Rescue Home. She eventually acquired a facility which would afford her the privilege of also providing shelter to the homeless men she encountered daily.

I write this story as one who is proud to be the son of a woman I greatly admire, and whom I honor more than any minister I have ever known. Not because others are not worthy of honor and admiration, but because God chose that Mother Grace Tucker would be the one to set the foundation to my life and ministry upon which all others who would follow could build upon. I am sure that there are others who could have told the story better. My only prayer is that God would use the effort to gather from friends, relatives, and associates the information within these pages to inspire, encourage, and to provoke others to follow in the footsteps of Mother Grace Tucker, as she has followed Christ.

Rev. Doyle Tucker
The eighth child of Otis and Grace Tucker