Branham's First Healing Revival Meeting

Roberts name appeared on the Top 100 list of the nation’s most respected people for several years. Between the late 1950s and the early 1960s, he was making a significant impact nationally. In the late 1950s he received a vision from God to build a university. Roberts continued to hold healing meetings but he shifted toward the university and television programs. He became the Co-founder, President, and Chancellor of Oral Roberts

Three years later, Stanley became the sixteenth pastor at the First Baptist church in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1977, he named his ministry “In Touch Ministries.” One year later, Dr. Stanley was

It was out of this study that led Parham to the conclusion this was the biblical way a person received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Parham moved to Houston Texas and started a church and bible school. It was at this school where a student name William Joseph Seymour, a black man attended the training sessions that Parham taught. Because of the laws of segregation at the time Seymour was forced to sit in the hallway and listen to the teachings of Parham. Seymour desired

Understanding a person’s life and struggles helps explain his or her character and leadership qualities. Smallwood E. Williams was born on October 17, 1907 in Virginia. He moved to Columbus, Ohio with his mother and stepfather when he was only eleven years old. Williams lost his father when he was an infant (Taylor 50). Upon moving to Columbus in 1918, his mother joined Bishop Robert Lawson’s Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith (COOLJC) and began taking Williams there every Sunday. A few years later, at age fourteen, Williams started preaching at the church while attending school. In fact, people started calling him “Boy-Wonder Preacher” mainly after his travel to New York City to preach at Lawson’s Refuge Church of Christ

Dr. Ron Crandall holds a doctoral degree in Pastoral Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. He retired in 2008 from Ashbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky, where he was a professor of evangelism and practical theology. He has served as an Elder in the United Methodist Church and is now the Executive Director of ABIDE. ABIDE the program that he helped come up with to revitalize churches. Crandall has researched and written in the areas of evangelism, leadership, and church growth. He is best known for WITNESS: Learning to Share Your Christian Faith, and Turnaround And Beyond: A Hopeful Future for Small Membership Churches.

On Monday, I went to the local Crossroads Baptist Church, located at 850 Edwards Ferry Rd NE, Leesburg, VA. This was my first time experience as I am Hindu and my parents never exposed me to any churches. Dr. Kenneth K. Baldwin was the pastor at the time I went. Luckily, I got the chance to speak with him after the service. After our brief conclusion, I realized that he had a great vision for his church and is leading it to success through his passion. I sensed his passion for preaching and religious beliefs as they were evident during the service. Despite this being my first visit to a church, I learned a lot of valuable things about churches and Christianity.

Along with his mother he attended the Mt. Olive Baptist Church near Plumerville where the pastor, Mason’s half-brother, the Reverend I.S. Nelson, baptized him in an atmosphere of praise and thankgiving. From that point in his life, Mason went throughout the area of southern Arkansas as a lay preacher, giving his testimony and working with souls on the mourners’ bench, especially during the summer camp meetings.

    “Two of Robinson’s present churches had their beginnings in the Pittsburg Coal Company’s General Store building in 1892. The company offered a large meeting room for the purpose of worship to two groups, on Protestant and one Roman Catholic.  Eventually each congregation moved out

Throughout the nineteenth century, free blacks, either from natural births or black migrations from the upper-South, emerged in the town, as the black population grew throughout the first half of the century. In 1830 US Census, 103 free blacks lived in the borough and township. The increasing numbers of free black residents helped to develop an independent community, where they built and controlled their own communal institutions like a cemetery and churches. The first black congregation church was the Richard Baker African Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1878, several members left the Richard Baker Church and formed the Mt. Pisgah A.M.E Zion Church. Another A.M.E church called St. Peters Zion was created around 1867. There was one Baptist Church in Shippensburg before 1900, called Bull’s Eye Colored Baptist Church. The establishments of these black A.M.E churches allowed blacks to practice their faith without interference from the white Shippensburg residents.

Founded in 1960 in Kendall, Florida, Baptist Health Inc. continues to provide hundreds of different treatment options for their patients. Rev. Dr. C. Roy Angell, a long

Join us in the move for revival! Smith Wigglesworth is hosting a great prayer meeting, where healings, breakthroughs, and miracles will be taking place. The Lord is showing up, and that’s something you don’t want to miss. England is being transformed by God, and it’s not stopping there; revival is spreading around the globe! Smith Wigglesworth seems to be the start of this great revival, and is hosting this event. At this event, you will learn about his life, walk with Christ, his is hardships. Wigglesworth was poor growing up, even though he had hard working parents. One day, Smith’s dad was assigned to dig a ditch, in the winter, and the ground was rock solid. He debated whether to wait for the ground to soften, or do the job in the now and

The most famous preacher leading the revivals was George Whitefield, whose primary message was that people were saved through God’s grace. He traveled and preached to thousands of people who eventually became “saved” by God’s grace.

Victory Baptist Church in Walker, Louisiana is a young church that had become complacent. They experienced a lot of success in a short amount of time. They went from meeting on Fred’s back porch to renting a bigger space at a local school. Then they acquired the land on which they built their building in just four months. Over the course of four years they have paid of the land and are well ahead of their note for the building.

In order to raise a son who could arguably be the most influential preacher in this century, one would think his parents must surely have been influential, devout, and pious. In reality, Graham's parents were quiet, humble people of God. On a small dairy farm in Charlotte, North Carolina, Billy Graham received his first lessons in the ways of the world and in the ways of the mysterious God. His father was a working man, comfortable only when his hands were immersed and occupied in the work of the farm. Secretly, he always felt some unanswered calling to the pulpit, to be a preacher; a feeling that was only resolved by living his calling through his oldest son, Billy Graham (Frady 33). His parents were God fearing people and strict Calvinists, and raised Graham to believe in hard work and honesty. Billy Graham was later to reject this Calvinistic upbringing, but there is no doubt that his parents were the initial influences on his spiritual life.

The Azusa Street revival of 1906 to 1909 was an event that popularised the practice of charismatic worship first in the United States and eventually throughout the Christian world. However, representations of the revival in the early years of the 20th century were biased, and distorted the events that occurred. Early believers portrayed the revival as an eschatological narrative in which the power of God came down to earth and revolutionised the church, especially with the gift of tongues. Pentecostal historians later mythologised Azusa Street representing the revival as the birthplace of Pentecostalism. On the other hand, conservatives portrayed the events of the revival as unbiblical and sinful, while secular critics depicted the revival