Alcoholics, Drug Addicts Among Hundreds to Accept Christ at 'Central Georgia Awakening' Revival
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- God is on the move in Central Georgia.
For several weeks now,
thousands of people have been gathering
in the small town of Roberta, Georgia
for the Central Georgia Awakening Revival.
I spoke with EvangelistD.R. Harrison for more.
How did all this come about?
- It started back at thebeginning of the year.
Pastor Chet Cooper of theCrossroads Bible Church
invited us down to preach a meeting
back in the first of the year
and God just moved mightilyand souls began to be saved
and Brother Chet at theend of the meeting said,
"Brother D.R., wouldyou pray about bringing
"the big gospel tent to Central Georgia?"
And I said, "Absolutely."
And COVID started hitting strong
and we just began topray and seek God's face
and one thing led toanother and businessmen
and the community startedgathering around it
and on June the 1st wehad the first service
and God has just movedin an unbelievable way.
- So what exactly has been happening?
How many people have accepted Jesus Christ
as their Lord and savior?
- As of today, under the tent
there's been 260 people walk the aisle
and trust the Lord astheir personal savior
and we're talking aboutalcoholics, drug addicts,
one man was 79 years oldthat walked the aisle,
an 83 year old woman got born again.
People are getting saved
and God is just movingin unbelievable ways.
It's just unbelievableto see what God's doing.
- And have you witnessed signs
and wonders and miracles as well?
- Well, just familiesbeing put back together,
marriages being put back together,
men and women that didn't believe in God
before all this COVID disaster hit
and now they're seeingGod work in their town
in ways they never experienced before,
and it's just amazing to seehow people have come together
in unity for one purpose,
and that's to beg God tosend revival to our nation.
- And you're in your seventhweek now, is that correct?
- That is correct.
We are in our seventh week.
- And plans for an eighth then next week?
- Yes sir, we will be goinginto week number eight
and we're just excited tosee what God's gonna do.
- Now are you practicing CDC guidelines,
like social distancing?
- Absolutely.
So whenever I agree to bring the tent,
Governor Kemp from Georgia,
he allowed us to have thetent with 20% capacity.
Our tent seats over 1,500 people,
so we only allow 300 people under the tent
and then people sitting outside the tent.
But to be honest withyou, there's been nights
where there's been so manypeople coming and going,
it's just been unbelievable.
But we've got the rows six foot apart,
we have sanitizationstations throughout the tent.
We have masks available forpeople that wanna wear masks
or people that wanna bring their masks.
But people bring their chairs,they sit outside the tent,
they sit in their cars.
People's just coming from everywhere
to see God move in thesedays that we're living in.
- And I understand peoplefrom around the world
are also witnessing the revival.
Talk about that.
- Yes.
There's been people literallyflying in and driving in
from all over America.
But we've been live streamingthe services every night
through Facebook and people have tuned in
from literally over 15countries around the world,
all 50 states, people are tuning in.
And there's been peoplegetting saved online.
The number of people saved under the tent,
we don't know how many's been saved
over the internet watching.
It's just incredible what God's doing.
In the midst of the chaos,
in the midst of all of the stuff going on,
God is still alive, He'sstill on the throne,
and revival is still possible.
- Where exactly is Roberta, Georgia,
for those that aren't familiar,
and how can people attend andwhere do they need to go also,
if they wanna see it online?
- You can go to Voice of HopeMinistries' Facebook page,
Voice of Hope Evangelistic Ministries.
Each service is live streamedevery night at 7:00 p.m.,
Monday through Friday.
That's 7:00 p.m. Eastern time.
The address is 106 HortmanMill Road, Roberta, Georgia.
Roberta is literallyabout 20 minutes outside
of Macon, Georgia, and mosteverybody knows where Macon is.
It's literally right outside of Macon.
It's in between Macon and Warner Robins.
We're right here in thecentral part of Georgia
and everything is leading upto the Washington, DC Crusade.
We have partnered with Jonathan Cahn
and The Return they'redoing September 26th.
The big tent here's going toWashington on September 21st,
we're setting it up acrossfrom the Washington Monument
and we believe God'sgonna shake the nation
in the next few months.
- What does all this say,
that in the midst of everythinggoing on in today's world,
a revival like this is taking place?
- Every revival that'sever taken place in history
has always come, andeven in the Word of God,
has always come whenthings were at its worst.
And we can all agree, Americais in desperate need today
and it is a perfect time forGod to send a mighty awakening,
a great awakening.
It's a perfect time forGod to send His power
and to get glory and to causeHis people to turn back to Him
and to repent of their sin
and to show this worldthat there's not hope
in the Republican, aDemocrat, the government,
a vaccine, or anything like that.
The hope today is stillthe Lord Jesus Christ.
He is the answer for all of our problems.
- All right, Evangelist D.R. Harrison.
Thank you for your time today, sir.
Blessings to you and to the revival.
- God bless you. We love youall. I'm praying for you all.