Great Christian Leaders

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

Wasn't she a leader in the "Latter Rain Movement?" The name rings a bell in the back of my head?

Yes.

She and her husband, later deceased, pastored the very large Latter Rain church in Detroit.

I had heard of her and the church many times. It was a healing and revival center. Once in conversation with Arlen (Buddy) Guidroz of Dallas, he spoke of that Church. It seems that when he was a young man, he and his Father, the legendary V.A. Guidroz, Dora's grandfather attended a service or two there...if I rightly recall the conversation.

He related how that there was so much fasting and praying in that church that it never closed, the tabernacle was always jammed packed with people. There were all sorts of physical aids nailed to the walls such as wheel chairs, crutches, leg braces and many other contraptions as well as a witness of the miracle power of God.

He further related how that since the breath gives off a bad odor from fasting that, there was so much fasting that it got into the walls. The church had to shut down from time to time for the purpose of sanitizing the walls to cleanse all the bad ordor from bad breath.

It was truly a great, miracle, faith based revival church. Many Latter Rain churches came and leaders came out of that church though that church was not the beginning of that movement.

The Latter Rain movement began in Sasketchiwan Canada at a praying and fasting Bible School. The likes of George Hawtin, a very prolific author of many (approx 35) books, and a few other men were the genesis of that movement from out of that school. I have all books written by Geo. Hawtin. However, I would not reccommend those books to a novice, though they are probably out of print.