Rodney Howard-Brown, known as Bartender and Holy Laughter, told a reporter of Tampa Televised News, that Billy Graham came to him in a dream prior to the crusade described in 1999.
Charismatic evangelist Rodney Howard-Browne has begun six weeks of rallies at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Meetings will be held about four nights a week from July 7 to Aug. 24. The outreaches also include donating food and clothing to the homeless, distributing Christian literature, street plays, mimes, and music. More than 2,000 churches have participated in year-long preparations. The controversial Howard-Browne is known for conducting services during which congregants laugh uncontrollably.
...Other evangelists participating in the meetings include T.D. Jakes, Rinehard Bonnke, and musician-evangelist Carman, Eric Gonyon, crusade administrator, told Religion Today. More than 1,000 volunteers, including Christians from every state and 21 foreign countries, began evangelizing in the streets on June 21 in conjunction with the crusade and about 7,000 people have become Christians as a result, he said. Members of many denominations, including Catholics, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Baptists and others "are working side by side."
...The focus of all of the ministry is to "ask Christians to rise up and reach the lost with Christ. We are focusing all our attention on the lost and asking God to win souls," Gonyon said.
...Several thousand people attended the first Good News New York rally July 7 despite a power failure in Newark, N.J., that prevented trains from moving through Penn Station. More than 300 people made decisions to become a Christian, Kathryn Riss, who attended the rally, said. Howard-Browne preached from John 3:16-17, saying "God doesn’t want to judge New York, He wants to save New York."
..."This outreach is very similar to Jesus’ parable of the king’s wedding banquet for his son, where the invited guests refused to come, but the poor outcasts filled the hall," Riss said. Tickets to the rally were distributed free, she said. "The people in the business suits don’t want the free tickets we’re giving out, but the poor people – prostitutes, drug addicts, teen-agers, and alcoholics, receive them gladly and ask for more."
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