What is the Toronto Blessing?
The Lester B. Pearson Airport in Toronto, Canada is the place where people come to seek the Toronto Blessing. The movement itself did not begin in Toronto though. Randy Clark, a St. Louis Vineyard pastor, attended a conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which was conducted by Rodney Howard-Browne, a South African Pentecostal minister. When Clark first heard Howard-Browne, his life and ministry were at a low point. Similarly, John Kilpatrick, pastor of the Brownsville Assembly of God, describes the same experience prior to the start of the “revival” at his church.1 Clark claims that his life was changed at the conference, the result of the manifestations taking place during the service. In January 1994, Clark was scheduled to speak at the Airport Vineyard in Toronto. The services were scheduled for a few days, but turned into several weeks. Since that time, the Airport Vineyard Church has become headquarters of the “blessing” resting in Toronto. Many try to compare the “blessing” to the Azusa
