Pensacola and the Brownsville Revival

We pulled into a marina Saturday afternoon in one of the oldest cities in America: Pensacola. It is also noted to me and many others as the location where a great revival occurred, starting on Fathers Day 1995 and continuing for five years. It is known as the "Brownsville Revival" taking place at Brownsville Assembly of God. If you haven't heard about it, you can read all about it in Wikipedia. It is a fairly accurate account but, as with anything else written by secular writers, it misses much of the impact the revival has had on hundreds of thousands of people, including me. We had the privilege of attending the revival in 1996. It was a genuine outpouring of the Holy Spirit, perhaps similar to the Azusa Street revival at the turn of the last century

On Sunday, we attended Brownsville Assembly of God and had the privilege of interviewing one of the people who was a long-time attender who also accepted Christ as an adult (age 39). His story is on my other blog (First Generation) and it is a very interesting one.