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Pioneering healing evangelist Charles Hunter dies

Veteran healing evangelist Charles Edward Hunter died in his Houston-area home last night after being in frail health for several years. He was 89, reports Charisma News Online.

Hunter and his wife, Frances, spent nearly 40 years leading healing crusades worldwide before her death last July at age 93. Known as the Happy Hunters, the couple wrote numerous books on divine healing, including the best seller How to Heal the Sick, and produced teaching DVDs to train others in healing ministry.

"[The Hunters] were a wonderful combination of two people who loved each other and loved the Lord," said Stanley Burgess, a distinguised professor of Christian history at Regent University's School of Divinity and author of The Encyclopedia of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity. "The other thing that impresses me about them is that they loved to train people, and you don't find training for healing in many places. It's going to be very hard to find others that have equal success in that area."

Hunter's daughter, Joan Hunter Murrell, said her father had essentially been bed-ridden for several months and suffered from a weakened heart. She said he died peacefully after lying down for bed.

She saw him the previous day to wish him a happy Father's Day. "I told him he was the best father ever, which was true," she said. "Not only to me but to everybody he ever met."

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[06/23/2010]

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