Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

John Kilpatrick, who was the pastor at Brownsville duringthe “outpouring,” describes his initiation into this false spiritin June 1995. He said he fell to the floor and lay there foralmost four hours. “When I hit that floor, it felt like I weighed10,000 pounds. I knew something supernatural washappening” (Charisma, June 1996).Steve hill, the evangelist who was the main preacher duringthe “outpouring,” had gotten his baptism into this “spirit” on avisit to Holy Trinity Brompton a few months earlier. On hisway back to the States from a missionary trip, he stoppedover in London and stayed with a charismatic RomanCatholic couple. Hearing of the happenings at Holy TrinityBrompton, Hill sought out Sandy Millar and requested thathe lay hands on him. When Millar acquiesced, Hill wasknocked down. Six months later, Hill was preaching inBrownsville when the drunken-shaking revival broke out.(For more about Holy Trinity Brompton and itscontemporary praise music see “Tim Hughes” in thisDirectory.)e following is a description of the beginning of this“revival” by one of the church members at BrownsvilleAssembly of God:“Pastor Kilpatrick was slain in the Spirit the first night and wasout for several hours. For the first two weeks or so, he couldn’tdo anything in church. God’s presence would come upon himso heavily that he couldn’t move. (His wife, Brenda, has beenhaving this happen to her ever since she went up to Toronto.Several nights people have had to drive them home and helpthem inside the house!! Even the neighbors asked what wasgoing on...and one Baptist lady came because her interest waspeeked when she kept seeing them drag Pastor in the houseduring the middle of the night!!) Even last week this happenedto him again” (E-mail message from Beth McDuffie to RichardRiss, July 30, 1995, History of the Worldwide Awakening).Kilpatrick tells of trying to drive while in this drunkencondition and running into garbage cans and backing into64