Draft:Dr. Randy Clark

Randy Clark is an apostolic evangelist who was a keynote speaker, sparking the 1994 Toronto Airport Vineyard revival known as the controversial "Toronto Blessing," attended over a decade by some three million people. He is also the founder and overseer of Global Awakening and the Apostolic Network of Global Awakening. He travels the world holding healing crusades and speaking at conferences and churches.

In response to critics, Clark’s ministry is characterized by conservative, documented claims for many thousands of healing miracles. He works closely with the Global Medical Research Institute (GMRI), which “seeks to apply the rigorous methods of evidence-based medicine to study Christian Spiritual Healing (CSH) practices.”

Clark holds an M.Div. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, a ThD from Primus University of Theology in Healing and Revival, and a D.Min. from United Theological Seminary. His doctoral dissertation, “A Study of the Effects of Christian Prayer on Pain or Mobility Restrictions from Surgeries Involving Implanted Materials” documented 880 cases of surgically-implanted materials causing pain and loss of mobility who self-reported at least 80 percent relief.

In 2010, Dr. Clark inaugurated a seminary doctoral program which focused on the training and practice of Christian healing at the United Methodist United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio. He also started the Global Awakening Theological Seminary, an accredited seminary in conjunction with Family of Faith University. In addition, he’s the developer of Global Awakening College of Ministry.

Clark was ordained by the General Baptist denomination in 1971, recognized by the American Baptist denomination in 1975, the Vineyard Fellowship of Churches in 1984, and the Apostolic Network of Global Awakening in 2006. He was born in McLeansboro, IL, 1952. He now lives in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania with his wife, DeAnne Clark; he has four children and twelve grandchildren.

 Margaret Poloma, Main Street Mystics: The Toronto Blessing and Reviving Pentecostalism (Rowman Altamira, 2003), 61, 155-56, 215. Poloma, “The ‘Toronto Blessing’” Charisma, Institutionalization, and Revival.” Journal of the Scientific Study of Religion 36:2 (Jun 1997): 257-71.  James Beverley, Holy Laughter and the Toronto Blessing: An Investigative Report (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995), 8, 14, 18-20, 74, 87, 135. 
 Brown, Candy Gunther Brown, Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011), 351-62.  

Candy Gunther Brown, Testing Prayer: Science and Healing (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012), 21-65, 234-38, and passim. Larry Sparks and Troy Anderson, “The Healing Miracles Preacher” [cover story], Charisma Magazine, March 11, 2015. http://www.charismamag.com/spirit/supernatural/22492-the-healing-miracles-preacher. http://www.globalawakening.com/events. www.globalmri.org. GMRI was founded by medical school professors from Duke, Harvard and Vanderbilt universities.

 Randy Clark, “A Study of the Effects of Christian Prayer on Pain or Mobility Restrictions from Surgeries Involving Implanted Materials,” Doctor of Ministry dissertation (Dayton, Ohio: United Theological Seminary, 2013).

References

Books authored by Randy Clark:

God Can Use “Little Ol’ Me: Remarkable Stories of Ordinary Christians. Shippensberg, Pa: Revival Press, 1998.

Essential Guide to the Power of the Holy Spirit: God's Miraculous Gifts at Work Today. Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image, 2015.

Essential Guide to Healing. Written with Bill Johnson. Bloomington, MN: Chosen Books, 2011.

Healing Energy: Whose Is It? Mechanicsburg, PA: Global Awakening, 2013.

Healing Unplugged. Written with Bill Johnson. Bloomington, MN: Chosen, 2012.

The Biblical Guidebook for Deliverance. Lake Mary, FL: Charisma House, 2015.

There is More! The Secret to Experiencing God's Power to Change Your Life. Bloomington, MN: Chosen Books, 2013.

Website: http://globalawakening.com

Bibliography on Randy Clark:

Beverley, James. Holy Laughter and the Toronto Blessing: An Investigative Report. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995. [Moderately critical]

Brown, Candy Gunther. Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 351-62.

Brown, Candy Gunther. Testing Prayer: Science and Healing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. 21-27, 34-41, 53-54, 211-212, 237, 256, 264-65.

s.v. “Clark, Randy,” The New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, eds. Stanley Burgess, et al. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002.

Dueck, Lorna. “The Enduring Revival: The ‘Toronto Blessing’ in 1994 Was Odd and Controversial—But Its Benefits Have Lasted,” Christianity Today, March 7, 2014. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/march-web-only/enduring-revival.html

Hanegraaff, Hank. Counterfeit Revival: Looking for God in All the Wrong Places. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1997, 2001. [Critic]

Hayford, Jack W. and S. David Moore. The Charismatic Century: The Enduring Impact of the Azusa Street Revival. New York: Hachette Book Group, 2006.

Keener, Craig. Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts. 2 vols. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2011): 343, 489.

Poloma, Margaret M. “The ‘Toronto Blessing’” Charisma, Institutionalization, and Revival.” Journal of the Scientific Study of Religion 36:2 (Jun 1997): 257-71.