Nearly 1 million come to Christ in 'Great Awakening' tour
South African evangelist Rodney Howard-Browne is on a mission to spark another great awakening that is marked by a wave of evangelism in the U.S. and abroad, reports Charisma News Online.
Since February 2007, the pastor of Revival Ministries International (RMI) in Tampa, Fla., has taken his Great Awakening Tour to 50 cities across the U.S., Latin America and Eastern Europe, mobilizing churchgoers to evangelize their communities. So far, the ministry has registered more than 950,000 decisions for Christ.
“I feel I have a mandate from the Lord to mobilize every believer to win souls,” said Howard-Browne (pictured), who has been leading a Great Awakening training conference at his church this week. “It is not the job of just the evangelist; it is the job of every born-again believer that loves Jesus to win souls. … One hundred years from today, the only thing that’s going to count is souls. Nothing else.”
Howard-Browne became well-known in the 1990s for leading revival meetings where participants often laughed uncontrollably after being touched by the power of God. Today, Browne’s services are still marked by what he describes as joy, and he sees his current emphasis on evangelism as part of the same move of God.