Todd Bentley is making a quick visit to his native British Columbia, the first quietly public activity here, since the collapse of the Lakeland Revival.
He grew up on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast and started his evangelism in the province. [Which led British Columbia Report to think him newsworthy and interesting way back in 2001].
But with Lakeland, the media here is now a bit, a little hip to Bentley. Which is why he's coming back his way.
http://windword.ca/events/
On June 25 2014 at 7 PM, he will be at Windword Church in the Vancouver suburb of Langley. That will be a public meeting for "restoration, healing and miracles". Todd will also be meeting with "coffee and fellowship" that same morning at 10 A.M.
The public meeting is being pitched to the "Fraser Valley', B.C.'s Bible Belt. Even when he lived in Abbotsford, Bentley would stay out in the Valley. Coming into Vancouver proper would be very rare for him.
Aha! Windword's senior pastor is Brent Borthwick! Back in August 2011, he was helpful in
http://ricksmiscellany.blogspot.ca/2012/06/todd-bentley-is-completely-recommended.html
the formal welcoming of Todd Bentley back into ministry..
Bill Johnson noted that, at least at that time, Borthwick was the pastor of Shonnah Bentley, Todd's starter wife.
Johnson wrote back then:
One of the more important contacts in this process has been with Brent Borthwick. He is Shonnah’s pastor. Brent is a trusted personal friend of mine and represents Todd’s ex-wife and kids with compassion and wisdom. He has spent time with Todd since his move to Morningstar and has affirmed that from his point of view, Todd is doing well. He also told me he was pleased at how much at peace Todd seemed to be. Brent’s perspective is important to me, for obvious reasons. He was also able to verify that Todd has taken care of Shonnah and the kids financially in an honorable way and continues to do so.
Expect Bentley to visit with Shonnah and his kids while he is in Langley.
Having Bentley here would incidentally be useful for Bantley in this way. Langley is about an hour away from Vancouver, so I would guess that unless they are very determined, no reporters or cameras will show up. Back at the time of Lakeland, Vancouver's dailies, the Sun and Province, didn't cover Bentley until those editors realized that they had a local "hook" to the story which obliged them to write on it too.]
Thanks to Wolf Tracks for noticing this for me, which is a notice of how quiet this is. I *live* in the Lower Mainland and the first I heard of this was on that blog.