A Called and Anointed Life: Early Years
Kathryn Kuhlman was born on May 9, 1907, on a farm outside Concordia, Missouri, and was saved at a revival meeting when she was 14 years old. Two years later, she left home to travel with her sister and brother-in-law, Myrtle and Everett Parrott, who held tent revivals in the Northwest and Midwest.
The Making of a Preacher
She stayed with them until she was 21, the year she set out on her own as a preacher. Although her first sermon was in a small, dirty pool hall in a rundown section of Boise, Idaho, Kathryn built a strong name for herself as she preached in tents and slept in poultry barns in Idaho, Utah, and Colorado.
A Ministry Takes Shape
She settled down in 1933 and opened Colorado’s highly successful Denver Revival Tabernacle. People from across the country came to hear Kathryn, and big-name evangelists came to preach in her pulpit. For five years, the ministry blossomed and fostered a great revival in the area.
Trials and Transformation
However, her promising ministry was compromised when Evangelist Burroughs Waltrip, Sr. came to preach. Waltrip divorced his wife and abandoned his two young sons shortly after meeting Kathryn. He then moved to Iowa, started a radio program and church, and kept his past a secret. When he and Kathryn married on October 18, 1938, she gave up her church in Denver and tried preaching at revivals around the Midwest.
A New Chapter
The rejections that Kathryn endured made her realize she could not preach and remain married to a scandalously divorced man. She decided to leave Waltrip in 1944. Kathryn said she died to the flesh that day and put aside the desires of her heart so she could fully serve God. She finally found a safe haven from gossip and a hungry people to feed with the gospel when she arrived in Franklin, Pennsylvania, in 1946.
A Legacy of Miracles
Kathryn started a popular radio program and a church there and built a ministry that was followed by miracles, signs, and wonders. It was in Franklin that she came to understand the power of the Holy Spirit and the miracle of healing. In 1948, Kathryn moved to Pittsburgh where she lived for the rest of her life. She held her famous miracle services in Carnegie Hall for 20 years, filling the great auditorium to capacity every time.
Tale Tuesday 051
Date: 8th August, 2023
Title: Kathryn Kuhlman
Source: The Azusa Street Revival
Author: Roberts Liardon
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