“I know I don’t look like I’m African, but it’s only because my parents kept me in the house most of the time, they never let me outside,” he said to scattered laughter. He paused for effect and shouted for emphasis at times. Over the next hour, Howard-Browne’s voice rose and fell rhythmically. “If you don’t want the fire, you better make a run for the door now while you can.” “Tonight will be fire on ice,” the evangelist said to over 100 people, mostly Inuit, of all ages. One hour into the event, Howard-Browne-the main act-took to the altar. (Image courtesy of Revival Ministries International) “Tonight will be fire on ice” Rodney Howard-Browne preaches in Iqaluit on Aug. My primary concerns are for my people and Nunavummiut.” Supreme Court Justice should be shot for insulting the American Constitution, Netser said, “What goes on in the States is none of my business. When asked to respond to Howard-Browne’s many run-ins with the media, which includes saying a U.S. Netser declined an interview request by Nunatsiaq News but said, “Rodney is a friend of mine and we connect regularly.” Patterk Netser, a long-time defender of fundamentalist Christianity and current Nunavut minister of housing and Arctic College, is what Howard-Browne calls one of his “Eskimo friends” who tell him climate change is a hoax. ![]() One advocate and organizer of such conferences, Roger Armbruster, told Nunatsiaq News in 2004 that the conferences are powerful magnets for those whose lives have been torn apart by abuse and addictions.īut Howard-Browne’s brand of capitalist and aggressive fundamental evangelism may be new to the territory. ![]() Bible conferences take place annually and, at least into the mid-2000s, were drawing bigger and bigger crowds. (Photo by Thomas Rohner) Preacher counts Patterk Netser as a friendįundamentalist Christian evangelism already has deep roots in Nunavut, with followers in almost every community. Rodney Howard-Browne preaches over a woman who he is about to lay hands on. Three one-foot-tall buckets of envelopes were collected. “Father, we just thank you for this offering, and we thank you for representing souls, that whatever comes into our account goes to their account,” Gonyon said. Gonyon told the audience to hold their offerings to Revival Ministries up in their hands. It also says people who enrol in his Aircraft Donation Program will receive tax breaks. His net worth has been a closely kept secret but his website says he provides training sessions in 158 countries. Howard-Browne did not respond to an interview request from Nunatsiaq News, so how much money was raised is unknown. The call for donations comes in a city where poverty is widespread: Nearly half of Nunavut’s population relies on social assistance amidst long-standing crises in food security and housing. One Inuk woman folded the empty envelope and put it in her purse. Some looked at others and held the envelopes in their hands. Many people filled and sealed the envelopes and put them into blue plastic beach buckets passed around. “I always tell people, don’t let the biggest cheque you ever wrote be for a Sea-Doo or a new phone … let it be to revive the church and win souls. ![]() He then handed out offering envelopes and challenged people to do their “best gift for souls,” by either cash, cheque made out to RMI Canada, credit card or via smartphone. ![]() I didn’t come here to be liked either, and I didn’t come here for your approval.… Remember: When Jesus was raised from the dead, he had to ask people to leave the room.” “I didn’t fly thousands of miles to come play games here. The choice is yours,” Howard-Browne said at the end of the 2.5-hour event. So if you want the fire, stand here, otherwise you can leave. “The whole of the Arctic depends on what is happening here tonight. He preached for over an hour at an Iqaluit church to more than 100 people. Rodney Howard-Browne, a South African immigrant to the United States, told his congregation near Tampa Bay last year that those who rule the world worship Lucifer and drink the blood of human sacrifices. A fundamentalist Christian evangelist known for conspiracy theories, climate change denial and marketing schemes brought his crusade to rid the world of the Antichrist to an Iqaluit church on Aug.
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