Renewal
The Holy Spirit refreshes prayer, worship, love for Jesus, spiritual gifts, healing expectation, and devotion within the Church.
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Church History & Revival
Follow what Jesus revealed, what the Church lost, and what the Holy Spirit restored across generations and nations.
49mapped movements
2,000+years of history
10research tracks
The Way the Holy Spirit Moves
Types of Holy Spirit Movements
Reform
The Holy Spirit corrects doctrine, leadership, corruption, and practices that moved away from Scripture and holiness.
Awakening
The Holy Spirit convicts, restores the fear of God, and brings repentance, conversion, and social change.
Restoration
The Holy Spirit restores neglected truth, gifts, healing prayer, mission, and discipleship.
Mission
The Holy Spirit sends the Church through evangelism, church planting, mercy, and witness among nations.
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Where Did It Happen?
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Church History & Revival
Chronological Timeline
Follow what was revealed, what was lost, and what the Holy Spirit restored through each period.
33-100
Apostolic Church
Early Church
Jesus is revealed as the risen Lord who forms his Church through repentance, baptism, shared life, apostolic teaching, the Spirit's power, and mission to the nations.
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100-313
Persecuted Church and Martyrs
Early Church
Jesus is revealed as the faithful King whose worth enables ordinary believers to love their enemies and confess him when discipleship costs reputation, freedom, or life.
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c. 250-500
Egyptian Desert Fathers and Mothers
Monastic
Jesus is revealed as the treasure of the undivided heart, drawing people into repentance, Scripture, unceasing prayer, humility, discernment, work, hospitality, and love.
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500-900
Early Medieval Christianity: Continuity and Decline
Medieval
Jesus is revealed as the Lord who preserves his people through political collapse and cultural change, sustaining worship, learning, mercy, and mission in both Eastern and …
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900-1300
Medieval Reform Movements
Monastic
Jesus is revealed as the Head of the Church who repeatedly calls compromised institutions back to prayer, integrity, learning, service among the poor, and faithful preaching.
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1517 onward
Protestant Reformation
Reformation
Jesus is revealed as the sufficient Savior and living Word who justifies by grace through faith, frees the conscience, and calls the Church to submit teaching …
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1540-1700
Catholic Reform and Global Missions
Reformation
Jesus is revealed as the Bridegroom who renews his Church through interior prayer, disciplined community, correction, education, mercy, and cross-cultural mission.
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1675-1732
Pietism and Moravian Revival
Evangelical
Jesus is revealed as the Lamb who turns inherited doctrine into living faith, gathers believers in prayerful community, heals division, and sends witnesses across cultures.
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c. 1730s-1740s
First Great Awakening
Evangelical · Era
Jesus is revealed as the Savior who gives new birth, awakening personal conviction and living faith beyond inherited religion across connected local revivals.
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c. 1730-1742
Middle Colonies Presbyterian Awakening
Evangelical
Jesus is revealed as the Lord who requires converted hearts and spiritually alive shepherds, not inherited office, outward respectability, or ministry without new birth.
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1734-1735
Northampton Revival
Evangelical
Jesus is revealed as the giver of new birth who brings searching conviction into a settled congregation and moves people from inherited religion toward personal faith.
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1738-1791
Methodist and Evangelical Revival
Evangelical
Jesus is revealed as the Savior and Sanctifier who gives new birth and assurance, forms holy love through disciplined community, and sends the gospel to people …
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1739-1741
Whitefield's Colonial Preaching Tours
Evangelical
Jesus is revealed as the Savior offered openly to every hearer, carrying the call to new birth across parish, colony, class, and denominational boundaries.
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c. 1790s-1840s
Methodist Circuit Riders and Camp Meetings
Evangelical
Jesus is revealed as the seeking Shepherd who sends circuit riders beyond settled churches and gathers scattered frontier families into worship, sacrament, discipleship, and accountable community.
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c. 1790s-1810s
New England and College Revivals
Evangelical
Jesus is revealed as the Lord of truth who confronts unbelief in churches and colleges and forms converted minds through preaching, repentance, disciplined study, and sustained …
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c. 1790s-1840s
Second Great Awakening
Evangelical · Era
Jesus is revealed as the Savior who calls for present conversion and sends awakened believers into frontier mission, organized discipleship, education, reform, and works of mercy.
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1797-1801
Kentucky Great Revival and Cane Ridge
Evangelical
Jesus is revealed as the Lord who meets spiritually hungry frontier communities beyond formal buildings, calling divided people toward repentance, reconciliation, shared communion, and new congregations.
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1824-1835
Finney's Northern Revivals
Evangelical
Jesus is revealed as the holy Ruler who calls hearers to an immediate gospel response and requires converted lives to bear visible fruit in prayer, justice, …
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c. 1830s-1900
Holiness Movement
Evangelical · Era
Jesus is revealed as the Sanctifier who calls believers into wholehearted love, practical holiness, disciplined grace, and mercy toward people pushed to society's margins.
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1834-1898
George Müller: Prayer, Faith, and Orphan Care
Evangelical
Jesus is revealed as the trustworthy Son who makes the Father's care visible, turning Scripture-fed prayer into patient provision, education, mission, and mercy for vulnerable children.
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1835-1861
Phoebe Palmer and the Tuesday Meetings
Evangelical
Jesus is revealed as the Sanctifier who receives surrendered lives at the altar of faith and turns holy love into testimony, generosity, service, and ministry beyond …
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1857-1859
Lay Prayer Revival
Evangelical
Jesus is revealed as the present Intercessor who meets ordinary workers in simple prayer, awakens repentance and unity, and spreads renewal without dependence on a famous …
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1865 onward
East London Mission and the Salvation Army
Evangelical
Jesus is revealed as the Savior who seeks people rejected by respectable society and forms a holy public witness through street preaching, disciplined fellowship, shelter, food, …
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1867 onward
National Holiness Camp Meetings
Evangelical
Jesus is revealed as the Sanctifier who gathers believers across congregations to seek cleansing, full consecration, holy love, and power for daily obedience together.
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c. 1870s-1958
Divine Healing and Healing Revival Era
God's Generals · Era
Jesus is revealed as the compassionate Healer who meets suffering people and joins salvation preaching with prayer for the sick, while every testimony remains accountable to …
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c. 1870s-1900s
Late Nineteenth-Century Divine Healing Movement
God's Generals
Jesus is revealed as the compassionate Lord of the whole person, inviting the Church to recover prayer for the sick through healing homes, testimony, faith, mercy, …
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c. 1900 roots; formally organized 1918
Coptic Sunday School and Modern Coptic Renewal
Coptic
Jesus is revealed as the Teacher who renews his ancient Church through Scripture, patristic faith, liturgy, youth discipleship, educated service, and a restored vocation for mission.
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1901-today
Pentecostal and Charismatic Eras
Pentecostal · Era
Jesus is revealed as the Baptizer in the Holy Spirit who equips ordinary believers with gifts for witness, worship, healing, and mission across denominations, cultures, and …
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1901
Topeka Outpouring
Pentecostal
Jesus is revealed as the Baptizer in the Holy Spirit who gives power for witness, while the Topeka story shows why experience, interpretation, Scripture, mission, and …
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1904-1905
Welsh Revival
Global
Jesus is revealed as the holy King who brings hidden sin into confession, teaches obedience to the Holy Spirit, and fills public prayer and worship with …
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1905-1907
Mukti Mission Revival
Global
Jesus is revealed as the Liberator who dignifies women and vulnerable children, joining repentance and prayer with Bible formation, education, practical refuge, and mission in India.
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1906-1909
Azusa Street Revival
Pentecostal
Jesus is revealed as the Baptizer in the Holy Spirit who forms a praying, holy, interracial community and sends unexpected witnesses into healing, evangelism, and global …
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c. 1906-1940s
Early Pentecostal Healing Missions
God's Generals
Jesus is revealed as the Healer and Sender who empowers witnesses across cultures, joining prayer for the sick to evangelism while calling ministers to humility, truthful …
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1907
Pyongyang Revival
Global
Jesus is revealed as the forgiving Lord who brings public confession into reconciled community and forms a Bible-reading, praying, evangelizing Korean Church.
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1929 onward
East African Revival
Global
Jesus was revealed as the crucified Lamb who brings people into the light, creating fellowship through repentance, confession, restitution, reconciliation, and witness.
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1947-1958
Postwar Healing Revival
God's Generals
Jesus is revealed as Savior and Healer in public campaigns, while the postwar revival shows that compassion and faith must be joined to evidence, doctrine, character, …
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1949-1952
Hebrides Revival
Evangelical
Jesus is revealed as the holy Lord who answers hidden intercession with deep conviction, restores reverence for God, and draws whole communities toward prayer and repentance.
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April-June 1954
1954 Argentine Stadium Revival
Global
Jesus was proclaimed publicly as Savior and compassionate Healer, able to call a city beyond the walls of a church.
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1960s-1980s
Mainline and Catholic Charismatic Renewal
Pentecostal
Jesus is revealed as the Spirit-baptizing Head of one Church, renewing believers inside historic and Catholic traditions and calling spiritual gifts toward unity, worship, witness, and …
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1967-1973
Jesus Movement
Global
Jesus is revealed as the living Savior who receives disillusioned young people, frees them from destructive paths, and forms them through Scripture, worship, baptism, simple community, …
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1967-2017
Reinhard Bonnke and CfaN African Mass Evangelism
Global
Jesus is revealed as Africa's Savior and Healer who sends clear gospel proclamation to vast crowds while calling evangelistic decisions into local-church follow-up and discipleship.
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c. 1970s-today
Global South Pentecostal Expansion
Pentecostal
Jesus is revealed as Lord of every nation, empowering local African, Asian, and Latin American believers to carry the gospel in their own languages through church …
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1974-1990s
Vineyard Renewal and Signs-and-Wonders Movement
Pentecostal
Jesus is revealed as the compassionate King whose already-and-not-yet kingdom equips ordinary believers for intimate worship, mercy, healing prayer, spiritual gifts, and church planting.
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From 1982
Argentine Evangelism and Deliverance Renewal
Global
Jesus was proclaimed as the victorious Deliverer who confronts bondage, heals the wounded, and gathers people into accountable local churches.
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From 1988
Uganda Prayer Altar Movement
Current
Jesus was proclaimed as Lord of the nations who calls a divided church to repentance, unity, watchful prayer, and mission.
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1990s-today
Modern Global Renewal Streams
Global · Era
Jesus is revealed as the present King who renews worship, prayer, compassion, and mission through distinct local streams, while influence does not make every event one …
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1994 onward
Toronto Airport Revival / Toronto Blessing
Pentecostal
Jesus is revealed as the beloved Son who makes the Father's love known, restores wounded identity, and renews worship, mission, and hunger for the Holy Spirit, …
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1995-2000
Brownsville Revival / Pensacola Outpouring
Pentecostal
Jesus is revealed as the crucified Savior who confronts sin, calls people to the altar in repentance, restores holy fear, and sends forgiven lives into evangelism.
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1996-today
Bethel Redding and Worship-Revival Stream
Pentecostal
Jesus is revealed as the model of life under the Father's presence, awakening worship, healing prayer, creativity, training, and expectation for kingdom fruit, with doctrine and …
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1999-today
24-7 Prayer and Night-and-Day Prayer Movements
Global
Jesus is revealed as the ceaseless Intercessor who teaches his Church rhythms of prayer that overflow into mission, justice, hospitality, creativity, and durable local discipleship.
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Contemporary; founding date not publicly verified
New Life Ministry Egypt
Current
Jesus is revealed as the present King who forms Spirit-filled kingdom communities through Arabic worship, preaching, discipleship, healing testimony, and mission in Egypt and beyond.
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2007-today
Jesus Image
Current
Jesus is revealed as the one treasure who draws extended worship, holiness, healing prayer, evangelism, and ministry training away from platform-centered Christianity and toward devotion to …
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2008
Lakeland Revival / Florida Outpouring
Pentecostal
Jesus is revealed as the Healer whose name must remain greater than media, manifestations, or ministers; every healing claim and impartation must be tested by truth, …
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2016 roots; 2019-today
The Send, UniteUS, and Current Campus Mission Movements
Global
Jesus is revealed as the Lord of the harvest who calls a generation from large gatherings into evangelism, campus witness, care for vulnerable people, baptism, local …
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2023
Asbury Outpouring
Evangelical
Jesus is revealed as the worthy Lamb who draws students into unhurried worship, humility, confession, prayer, reconciliation, and quiet witness without making a celebrity the center.
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