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Tent revivals, also known as tent meetings, are a gathering of Christian worshipers in a tent erected specifically for revival meetings, evangelism, and healing crusades. Tent revivals have had both local and national ministries. The tent revival is generally a large tent or tents erected for a community gathering in which people gather to hear ...
A plaque delineating the history of brush arbour revivals and camp meetings at the Sulphur Springs Methodist Campground. A brush arbour revival, [A] also known as brush arbour meeting, [B] is a revival service that takes place under an open-sided shelter called an "arbour", which is "constructed of vertical poles driven into the ground with additional long poles laid across the top as support ...
The Brownsville Revival (also known as the Pensacola Outpouring) was a widely reported Christian revival within the Pentecostal movement that began on Father's Day June 18, 1995, at Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida. [1]
Graham's revival meetings were most commonly called "crusades", and were billed as such for decades, but Graham himself began calling them "missions" after the September 11 attacks due to a potentially offensive connotation of the word crusade among Muslims. [10]
Mennonite conference in 1947. A revival meeting usually consists of several consecutive nights of services conducted at the same time and location, most often the building belonging to the sponsoring congregation but sometimes a rented assembly hall, for more adequate space, to provide a setting that is more comfortable for non-Christians, or to reach a community where there are no churches.
He knew Oral Roberts and was impressed by the size of Roberts' revival tent. One day Coe went to a Roberts' tent meeting and measured the tent; he then ordered a larger one. [ 7 ] Coe was not bashful about announcing that his tent was the largest in the world; bigger, he claimed, than the one Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus used.
While attending a revival meeting in 1907, McPherson met Robert James Semple, a Pentecostal missionary from Ireland. [17] She dedicated her life to Jesus and converted to Pentecostalism. [16] At the meeting, she became enraptured by Semple and his message. After a short courtship, they were married in an August 1908 Salvation Army ceremony.
In most Gospel Halls the following weekly meetings are convened at varying times, and may be combined: The breaking of bread or Lord's Supper (once a week, always on Sunday) Sunday school; Gospel preaching meeting (distinct from a revival meeting in that they are a regular weekly meeting) Prayer meeting