The River Fellowship in Langley, BC will be hosting Marc Dupont, March 15 to 17, 2024, as their annual spring conference special Keynote speaker. Conference organizer, Pastor Paul Hughes says, “you will be strengthened and encouraged with deep worship and solid biblical teaching from a humble, prophetically gifted leader and servant of Jesus. Prophetic words will be released as well as prayers for physical and holistic healing (emotional, mental) as the Spirit leads. Space is limited so make sure you sign up as soon as possible.”

Dupont went to Orangeville, Ontario to conduct a conference at a retreat centre called Singing Waters in May of 1992. He had not seen Niagara Falls yet, but had a detailed vision of the impending revival that did arrive on the third week of January, 1994. Dupont commented, “I saw Niagara Falls coming from the throne of God over the city of Toronto. And the Lord said he’s going to pour out his Spirit on Toronto in a way that the church had never experienced in that region, and it was going to go from there to the nation.” The breaking up of rocks of religiosity featured in it, amongst other things.

Dupont ended up serving as a pastor at the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship (now called CTF Toronto) from 1992 to 1996, where deep revival brought an encounter that primarily emphasized profound biblical-theological themes like adoption and the Father’s love, along with the necessity of walking in Christ-like forgiveness.

Endorsed by the likes of Oxford doctoral graduate R. T. Kendall (author of more than 50 books and former preacher at London’s famous Westminster Chapel, succeeding Rev. Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones), some describe this revival along the trajectory-lines of the First Great Awakening from the 18th Century (think George Whitefield, John Wesley, and Jonathan Edwards), as well as the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th Century in the United States (think Charles Finney and the expanding areas of revival fire he termed “the burned-over districts”, along with the itinerant “circuit-riders” who travelled by horse for weeks over wild country to deliver the message).

Also paralleled with historic revivals like the Azusa Street Revival of 1906 (where contemporary Pentecostalism was born), during the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship’s pinnacle in 1994 and the immediate subsequent years where meetings were held 6 nights per week, it is estimated that some 2.5 million people passed through the small church’s doors. Toronto Life Magazine declared the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship as Toronto’s most notable tourist attraction for the year in December of 1994.

Dupont left Toronto in 1996, continuing to minister as an itinerant prophetic Bible teacher, and as a ministry veteran of 42 years. He continues faithfully to minister the Father’s love in teaching, prophecy, and healing. He has served in various forms of church leadership for more than 25 years, including teaching, preaching, counselling, evangelism, and church planting.

During the past 26 years, Dupont has been working primarily with Mantle of Praise Ministries Inc. on a largely international level, functioning in a prophetic ‘Barnabas ministry’ of encouragement. He has ministered in conferences, seminars, and churches in more than 20 countries, and travels 4-5 months annually in Scandinavia, Europe, Africa, the United States, Canada, Mexico, the British Isles, Asia, and Australia – regularly being used by the Lord in a breadth of denominations from Lutheran to Baptist and Pentecostal to Anglican. His teaching primarily focuses on the areas of Revival, The Father Heart of God, Intimacy with God, Unity in the Body of Christ, Knowing the Times and Seasons, Restoration for Traditional Churches, Healing in the Body of Christ, and Spiritual Abuse. His various books have covered themes from the glory of God to church toxicity to healing and prayer for the sick, as well as friendship with God and how to get breakthrough at a time – like our present – of breakdown.

Dupont became a follower of Jesus in 1974, and had his international ministry prophesied over him at a Lonnie Frisbee meeting in southern California while a seminary student, then hovering in Calvary Chapel circles (portrayed in the recent Jesus Revolution movie). Along with his wife Kim, they now reside in San Diego, CA where they have three grown children and where Dupont is also on staff at Foothills Christian Church in El Cajon, CA. His pastoral responsibilities include preaching at services and conferences, as well as mentoring.

Hughes adds, “what I appreciate about Marc personally is his levelheadedness; the balanced, biblical ministry expression he demonstrates through his teaching and prophetic gift. For example, when several of the prophetic voices out there were having a bit of a heyday forecasting an extreme positivity on the impending arrival of 2020 in no uncertain and overly effusive terms, Marc had nothing of it, commenting, ‘I learned not to go for the low-hanging fruit a long time ago.’ Marc’s heart is for the continuing emphasis of the Holy Spirit’s outpouring in the present time that he saw in the 1990’s in Toronto, which he suggests, was (and is) ‘a tremendous call to intimacy with God.’ From the very start, Jesus’ desire for his followers can be found in John 17:3 – that they may know the Father.

“I also agree with his identification of one of the historically tragic, and continual mistakes in the charismatic and Pentecostal churches as being wowed by, and disproportionately focused on, ‘the anointing’, when what Christians are called to walk in is character and integrity. A prophetic word for everyone’s life, he says, is to pursue God’s will for our lives according to Romans 8:29, and to prioritize being conformed to the image of Christ. Dupont says, ‘holiness is not so much what can I get away with and what can I not do, but is really about being consumed with the nature of Christ, the goodness of Christ, the peace and joy, the Kingdom, the purity of the Lord. There’s so much life on that.’”

According to Dupont, we’ve got to get back to Jesus’ mandate of seeking first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness . . . We don’t need more revival – we need an Awakening. For a culture that is becoming increasingly woke to the point of sleep, these are wise words indeed.

Awakening Hope, the Spring conference at The River Fellowship in Langley, BC, with Marc Dupont, will be held from March 15 to 17, 2024. The event is free but a freewill offering will be taken at each meeting to cover conference and related expenses.