Before the healing ministries of Aimee Semple McPherson and Kathyrn Kuhlman, there was Maria Woodworth-Etter. Born in 1844 in New Lisbon, Ohio, a population of 800, she was an unlikely healing pioneer with little to no church exposure. Her abusive alcoholic dad bankrupted the family, before he died of sunstroke, leaving them destitute: “…when (my father) took one drink, … [Read more...] about Maria Woodworth-Etter: Under the Power
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Leanne Payne’s healing presence
Healing Pioneers One of Agnes Sanford’s most significant spiritual daughters was Leanne Payne, a CS Lewis scholar at Wheaton College. Mentored by Wheaton Professor Clyde Kilby, Payne introduced the world to the healing insights of CS Lewis in her groundbreaking book Real Presence. Kilby is best known for founding the Marion E. Wade Centre at Wheaton College, which studies … [Read more...] about Leanne Payne’s healing presence
Francis & Judith MacNutt: God’s healing team
Francis and Judith MacNutt were one of the most remarkable healing teams of God that the world has ever known. Born in 1925, Francis MacNutt’s career dream was to become a medical doctor. In 1944, at age 19, he was accepted by Washington University Medical School after only two years of college premed. Ten days before entering medical school, he was drafted, serving the next … [Read more...] about Francis & Judith MacNutt: God’s healing team
Agnes Sanford’s healing light
The 20th century healing revival was encouraged greatly by Agnes Sanford. She mentored and raised up more successors than other healing pioneers. Her spiritual children included Leanne Payne, Francis MacNutt, Tommy Tyson, John & Paula Sandford, Anne White, Ruth Carter Stapleton, and Dennis & Rita Bennett. Newsweek Magazine described her as one of six people who shaped … [Read more...] about Agnes Sanford’s healing light
Alexander & Mary Boddy, British Healing Pioneers
From the noisy industrial town of Sunderland in Northern England came unlikely healing pioneers, Rev. AA (Alexander) and Mary Boddy. Sunderland at the time was the largest shipbuilding port in the world, full of noxious factory fumes and clanging steam hammers. As a spiritual well of revival, Sunderland was visited thirty times by John Wesley. Alexander Boddy was … [Read more...] about Alexander & Mary Boddy, British Healing Pioneers