Revival Fellowship
organization
The Revival Fellowship is a Pentecostal church that was founded in Australia in 1995, following a schism from the Revival Centres International. It claims approximately 45 assemblies in Australia, and several developed and developing nations across the world. The international assemblies are small in number, with five to six groups of fewer than thirty people in most western nations, to perhaps a few thousand people in total in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Their largest assemblies are in Papua New Guinea, claiming between 100,000 to 200,000 members in that country. According to Australian Bureau of Statistics census data 1,114 people identified with the Revival Fellowship in 2021.
The Revival Fellowship is led by an unelected Council of experienced Pastors from around the world.
History
The Revival Fellowship was formed as a result of a 1995 schism with the Revival Centres International. At a Christmas church camp in 1994 Lloyd Longfield (head-pastor of the Revival Centres International) instituted a policy that sexually immoral members would be permanently excommunicated; that they could never be restored to fellowship. The Adelaide assembly, led by pastor John Kuhlmann, opposed the move, withdrawing from the Revival Centres with approximately half of the assemblies (30), a third of pastors (35) and potentially over half of the membership (3,300 including 120 from Melbourne - the bulk of membership outside of Victoria and Tasmania). Approximately half of the missions work in Papua New Guinea became part of the Revival Fellowship, as well as various other international assemblies (including assemblies in Europe, Africa, New Zealand, the Pacific and the Americas).
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