When Bobby Brown tells the story of how the Cornfield Revival started, it stirs memories of America’s great tent preachers.
Brown doesn’t pretend to be A.A. Allen or Oral Roberts, but he has a heart for revival and the supernatural—and God saw that when He called Brown to set up a tent in a cornfield.
“In prayer one morning, the Lord gave me a vision. I saw a tent in this lady’s front yard. I called the lady and told her the vision,” says Brown, leader of the Revival Center in Columbia, Kentucky. “She told me obviously the tent could not go in her front yard but I was welcome to put the tent in the field in her backyard and do a three-day revival. It was literally in the middle of a cornfield.”
That was the birth of the Cornfield Revival. And it turns out three days wasn’t enough—so it just kept going. Local churches started shutting down their Sunday night and Wednesday night services to join the revival meetings. It was cross-denominational, with Nazarenes, Baptists, Methodists, Amish and, of course, Pentecostals all worshipping Jesus under the tent.
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“We stayed under the tent for 74 consecutive nights,” Brown says. When the rainy season started, he says the Holy Spirit told him to get a building, and He would pay for it. That extended the revival another 114 nights. With another word of wisdom from the Holy Spirit, Brown then cut the meetings to four nights a week to avoid wearing people out.
“The Cornfield Revival Center is an uncommon gathering place in a very unlikely location, but God continues to show up saving, healing and blessing His people. It is an amazing testimony of the limitless possibilities of the Father,” says Ryan LeStrange, co-author of the new book Revival Hubs Rising and co-founder of awakeningtv.com. “Bobby has a driving passion to see souls saved, people set free and revival fire flowing.”
Brown reports healings, salvations and true revival among Christians who had lost their zeal. He sees people getting equipped to move in their callings. And it’s not occasionally. It happens every week.
“The fruit from the Cornfield Revival Center is abundant. Many have either been saved or returned to their first love through the ministry that has taken place there. Others have been dramatically healed,” LeStrange says. “There is a growing network of pastors and leaders in the region who are hungry for revival. They come together, laying down individual ministry names and agendas, just to seek God and see revival in their community. This is the new breed bursting forth; those who don’t care about their personal agenda but have set their hearts to seek Him first.”
Although he’s seen some resistance from religious leaders, one visit to the tent typically changes hearts and minds. In fact, with all the chatter in Kentucky about the Cornfield Revival Center, Brown is getting calls from leaders in other cities—even beyond Kentucky’s borders—to bring his big tent to town. This appears to mark a shift in how the church does church.
“The Lord has shown me repeatedly that there will be a new model established in the earth in this hour of revival hubs; gathering places of glory. I believe that the Cornfield Revival Center is a part of this exciting new move of God,” LeStrange says. “There are places being established in the Earth to host God’s presence, release His plans and prepare His people. These gathering places will not be focused on building a name, brand or agenda but (will) contend for the ignition of divine fire in the hearts of God’s people.”
Although this revival looks different from the Voice of Healing days—it’s a new wineskin—it’s still marked by signs and wonders and hunger for God.
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