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    Revival in a small Georgia church

    Incredible Miracles Mark Explosive Ongoing Revival in Small Georgia Church

    During Christ Fellowship's 21-day fast in January, Pastor Todd Smith said God gave him a vision of the church's baptistry. The baptism pool was full, and there was a strip of fire on top of the water.

    Shortly after, Smith says, God "Sat down in our building and rocked our world." And, revival and the manifest presence of God has been evident ever since in the small charismatic church in Dawsonville, Georgia.

    Physical healings, deliverance and more than 500 baptisms have taken place during Sunday-night services at Christ Fellowship for the past six months. Smith says people have come from hundreds of miles to "walk into that water and feel the presence of the Lord."

    "And that's what it is all about, the hunger just to feel God's presence," says Smith, who has pastored Christ Fellowship for eight years. "People want to be healed, and they want to be whole. God spoke to me and said 'Todd, I am going to baptize people here with both water and fire.' The encounter has been so strong and so forceful that I can't articulate it."

    Christ Fellowship, with about 300 to 400 regular attendees, sees its Sunday-night services swell to 600 at times, with individuals and churches traveling in from all parts of Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee to connect with the presence of God. A handful of local pastors and some nationally known evangelists have taken turns preaching the Sunday night services.

    But then, visiting evangelist Pat Schatzline says, the worship and sermons are only a prelude to the manifestation of God's power when an altar call and an invitation to be baptized are made.

    "What's happening is, when people get into that baptismal tank, they are getting either radically saved or restored," says Schatzline, co-author with his wife, Karen, of the book Rebuilding the Altar. "They are coming out shaking under the power of God. Some even have to be helped out of the tank because they are shaking so much. It's not like anything I've ever seen before.

    "We've seen people delivered from addictions like drugs and seen many, many radical healings take place. The Holy Spirit's presence is so thick, and it's all for His glory. It has absolutely nothing to do with us, and that's what's so beautiful. Nobody takes any ownership in this."

    Schatzline has preached multiple times during the Sunday-night revival at Christ Fellowship and is scheduled to do so again this Sunday evening.

    Prior to the beginning of the revival, Smith says Christ Fellowship conducted only a handful of baptisms each month. Since February, he says, it is not uncommon for more than 40 to be baptized in a single service, pushing the service well past midnight in many cases.

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