BROWNSVILLE REVIVAL BEGINS - MANY DENOMINATIONS PARTICIPATING

On Father's Day, June 18, 1995, an evangelist Steve spoke at Brownsville Assembly of God, just outside of Pensacola, Florida. Although he was planning to be there for only one day, the power of God fell, and the pastor, John, fell out under the power of God for a period of about 48 hours. The first meeting, which had been scheduled to conclude at noon, lasted until 4:00 pm. During a 5 1/2 hour service that evening, the church asked Hill to extend his visit, and he began cancelling hist appointments, including a planned trip to Russia. Crowds of 2,500 came five nights a week, from Methodist, Baptist, Episcopal, Nazarene, Catholic, and Church of Christ denominations. According to the NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RELIGION REPORT (vol. 9, no. 19, September 4, 1995, p. 2) "Buses brought visitors from around the Southeast and other areas of the United States. Some came from overseas."
The church "comfortably" seats 2100, and they said that there were between 2400 and 2600 people every night. We all felt the power of God INCREASE every night that we were there. We stayed each night til about 2:00 in the morning, and at that hour there was still about 1000 people standing, sitting, laying around the altar! Even on the week nights! And the evangelist and prayer ministry teams kept praying for people right on into the morning hours.
They asked all first-time visitors to raise their hands each night - and there were probably several hundred first timers every night. They estimate that over 10,000 people have attended during the first 2 weeks, and that over 3,000 have been saved, either in the meetings, or as a result of people going out from the meetings and leading someone to the Lord. People have called the church from 7 different states to inquire about the move of God - they had to put in a new phone system! They only had 2 or 3 lines, and now they have 8 lines, and they are all lit up all day long!
It was very powerful on the last night we were there. As I approached the altar, stepping over bodies, and wading thru the mass of people that were always crowded up front, the presence of God became so strong that my legs got weak as I got closer to the front, without anyone even praying over me. I turned around to my friend and asked her if she could feel the presence of God get incredibly stronger as we approached the altar, or was it just me? She said, "Yes!"
. . . There were SO MANY different denominations represented there - even MINISTERS of other demoninations were visiting. One Baptist pastor cancelled his Wednesday night church service, and told his congregation to go with him to see what God was doing in Brownsville Assembly! A different Baptist church called up and offered to send nursery workers over to help, since they heard that the meetings were going every night until very late! There was more of a sense of Church unity than I would have expected. This Wednesday morning the evangelist and the pastor are putting on a free breakfast meeting just for pastors and their wives - for the purpose of answering any of their questions and informing them of exactly what is going on.
"now there are about 4000 people attending nightly services (except Saturdays). The awesome part of the report was that [a total of] about 800 people GOT SAVED during the last 2 meetings of last week! . . . The meetings are usually going until 3:00 in the morning, and people are coming in busses!"