Notes and Updates Notes and updates on healingandrevival.com

We’ve been blessed enough to get access to quite a bit of early Voice of Healing material. We’ll be adding information as we process through it all. One thing we’re working on is connecting Branham meetings with sermons he did at various sites. Take a look at Arizona under Wells of Revival/United States. Branham was a frequent visitor there and we have made links to the sermons he gave at the various places that he spoke. We’ve also added Branham links to California.  

We’ve been fortunate enough to get a copy of the book “When God Makes a Pastor” about Elias Letwaba. It was published in 1934 so does not cover the later years of his life. It did, however, have a picture of Letwaba which we have not found anywhere else. We’ve updated his biography and added a couple more articles in the reference section.

When discussion of the Voice of Healing movement comes up one name keeps appearing – Jack Moore.  We wondered who Jack Moore was – as there did not seem to be any biographical information on him out there. We learned that without Jack Moore there would not have been a Voice of Healing magazine or organization!  We’ve created a biography for him, although he was not one of the prominent ministers.  He truly was a forerunner in the Joseph Anointing that so many prophetic people are talking about today. 

We’ve added pictures from the Houston cemetery where Raymond T. Richey is buried. Look at the reference link under his biography for more information.

We are working on the biography of Cyrus B. Fockler and came across an unusual historical event. If anyone lives in the Mansfield Ohio area we would suggest that this is might be an area of repentence to re-open wells of healing. In the late Spring to Fall of 1900 there was a problem. Members of Dowie’s Christian Catholic Church had started a branch in Mansfield, led by Cyrys B. Fockler. A couple of people from the church died without medical care and this inflamed the local populace. The media, politicians, and health authorities began to come against the church and its policies. Fockler responded by verbally attacking everyon who disagreed with him (following in the style of his mentor Dowie). It became so bad that a mob of 3000 people attacked the church elders, including Fockler and beat, tarred, and feathered them. The attacks on the homes of church members and leaders continued throughout the summer and fall of 1900. Police had to surround the meeting places to protect the church members. Other leaders were beaten and painted blue and driven out of town. When Dowie attempted to send reinforcing elders the police stopped the trains and made them get off before they ever reached Mansfield. These events became notorious and were reported around the entire country. Although many people did not like Dowie or his church, the fact that mobs were allowed to run wild attacking church members were considered horrendous. Seventy years after the event it was written up in the Mansfield news as the story that gave Mansfield a “black eye” in front of the entire nation.

We’ve updated the Illinois Wells of Revival listing to include some A. A. Allen meetings in Chicago in the 1950’s and 60s.  There is a R. W. Schambach meeting as well.  These new listings all have newspaper links. 

While doing reserch on Cyrus Fockler we ran across a couple of new references on Elias Letwaba. We’ve added them to the reference section under Letwaba’s biography.

Who was Cyrus B. Fockler? An associate of John G. Lake and F. F. Bosworth, an elder under John Alexander Dowie, a man who ministered with Maria Woodworth-Etter and Aimee Semple-Mcpherson, a founding member of the Assemblies of God denomination, and someone who started a Pentecostal Revival center in Milwaukee Wisconsin when a woman was dramatically healed and came out of a wheelchair. We’re currently collecting biographical information so if you have any please let us know.
We’ve added his name to the Timeline and updated the following states wells of revival listing – Arkansas, Georgia, Pennsulvannia, and Wisconsin.

We’ve made a few minor timeline adjustments. One of the people we’ve added is Karl Andreas who was a contemporary of A.B. Simpson, Charles Cullis, W.E. Boardman, and Elizabeth Baxter. He evidently ran a healing home in London in the late 1800s in the same time frame as Bethshan. We’re looking for biographical info so if you have any please let us know.

We’ve just added our ninth page under the Testimonies link from the home page. Check out these testimonies both new and old. They will encourage you to believe God.