Rodney Howard-Browne (conceived June 12, 1961) is a South African-brought into the world American Christian minister and evangelist from the pentecostal wing of the protestant outreaching church.

He is a minister of The River at Tampa Bay, a congregation which he and his better half established in 1996, and heads Revival Ministries International. He has dwelled in Tampa, Florida since the mid-1990s. His restoration gatherings are known for believers breaking into "sacred chuckling".

Biography

Howard-Browne and his three siblings (Mervyn, Bazel, and Gil) were brought up in a Pentecostal family in the urban communities of Port Elizabeth and East London in South Africa. His dad Frank Mervyn Derric Howard-Browne (1924–2005) was a pastor, and Rodney turned into a Christian at age five.

In 1981, he met and wedded his better half Adonica (née Weyers). During the 1980s, he chipped in for Youth for Christ before doing a showing stretch with Ray McCauly's Rhema book of scriptures school in Johannesburg.

In December 1989, the family emigrated from South Africa to the United States, settling in Louisville, Kentucky, and in 1991, he started holding restoration gatherings. The Rodney Howard-Browne Evangelistic Association was consolidated in November 1993 and the family moved to the Tampa Bay, Florida territory in 1994.

Rodney's oldest sibling Gil proceeded to work Times of Refreshing Ministries, an online zealous service. Similarly, his most youthful sibling Bazil built up an eponymous zealous service on 1 January 1994 with the affirmed point of individuals accomplishing money related opportunities through the uncommon blessing of God. Before this he had worked close by his sibling Rodney for a year.

In 1996, Howard-Browne established The River at Tampa Bay Church in Tampa, Florida and has since filled in as its minister. Howard-Browne and his better half likewise established Revival Ministries International in 1997, just as the River Bible Institute and the River School of Worship.

Howard-Browne's administrations are portrayed by laying of hands and admirers snickering with clear inebriation, talking in tongues, making creature commotions, breaking into wild sacred chuckling, shaking with merriment, moving in the walkways, or tumbling to the ground. He alludes to himself as "God's barkeep" and the "blessed apparition barkeep".

Howard-Browne is attributed with acquainting heavenly chuckling with Carpenter's Home Church in Lakeland, Florida during a progression of restoration administrations with Karl Strader in 1993.

Howard-Browne originally came to national unmistakable quality in the US in 1999 when his Revival Ministries association leased Madison Square Garden in New York City for about a month and a half.

The occasion, called Good News New York, was portrayed as "a push to accomplish a Billy Graham-style confidence uprising", yet was "scorned in nearby media as a goliath flop". It was evaluated to cost up to $10 million however just 3,000 individuals were in participation at the 19,000-seat field.

Analytical writers in his old neighborhood of Tampa revealed at the time that since showing up from South Africa practically destitute in December 1989, his unexpected riches incorporated a pontoon, a Harley Davidson cruiser, a home in one of Tampa's selective gated networks and access to a personal jet; notwithstanding, they couldn't discover proof of money related bad behavior.

Howard-Browne's little girl Kelly kicked the bucket because of cystic fibrosis on Christmas Day, 25 December 2002, at 18 years old. He at that point promised that "since the fallen angel has taken their little girl with this feared ailment, he would pay with one million spirits throughout the following ten years".

In 2012, it was accounted for that Howard-Browne's River Church had facilitated political gatherings for the Florida section of the Republican Party during the first two years, including a convention for then presidential up-and-comer Newt Gingrich, at which Howard-Browne required a national "ascending" of Christian Americans "that won't stand around and permit the murdering of unborn infants and permit Islam to assume control over this nation".

At a similar occasion, he portrayed Mormonism as a "clique" that, in the nineteenth century, "had passing crews that would circumvent executing everyone that was not a Mormon". He later took the comment back, saying Mormons were "fair individuals".

Howard-Browne distributed The Killing of Uncle Sam: The Demise of the United States of America, which was planned to be discharged in May 2018, and reported that returns from deals of the book would go to the River School of Government, a degree conceding program, worked by Howard-Browne and his significant other under the support of Revival Ministries, that subsidizes preparing for individuals looking to pursue political position.

Howard-Browne's fervent development has been dismissed as religion like by numerous standard Christian associations, and it has been portrayed as "a blend of brimstone and fire about God's capacity, sprinkled with fashionable person references and a conviction that congregation—like Disneyland—ought to be 'the most joyful spot on earth'."

The Christian Research Institute named his activity a "clique" and called the him "a great stage trance inducer" who has made millions from helpless adherents. As indicated by The Tampa Tribune, pundits have portrayed him as "a controller driving adherents into a clique; a carnival ring pioneer bringing home the bacon."

Articulations and contentions

Certificate plant doctorate

Howard-Browne professed to have earned a "doctorate of service degree" in 1992 from "The School of Bible Theology", a non-authorize Pentecostal correspondence school in San Jacinto, California, which has been depicted as a "certificate factory".

Claim of plot to assault Donald Trump

In July 2017, Howard-Browne was one of 17 zealous ministers who visited the White House to petition God for and lay hands on President Donald Trump. In a video a few days after the fact, Howard-Browne expressed that "there is an arranged assault on our leader and that is everything I can inform you regarding at the present time; I hear what I'm saying, I've addressed high-positioning individuals in the legislature".

Howard-Browne later said that the Secret Service met with him to find which congressman informed him concerning the plot however he would not say, refering to peaceful benefit. Howard-Browne adulated God for giving America a 'Rambo'.

In March 2016, Howard-Browne composed a Facebook post titled "Donald Trump Is the New World Order's Worst Nightmare," where he definite his decision to back Trump in the political race as a check against a worldwide scheme to demolish America.

Human penance in Hollywood and Washington, DC

In an October 2017 message at The River at Tampa Bay church, Howard-Browne affirmed that "They penance youngsters at the most significant levels in Hollywood. They drink blood of small children. This is a reality", proceeding, "The human penance and the barbarianism has been continuing for quite a long time" in Hollywood and Washington, D.C.

Christchurch Mosque shootings

Not long after the Christchurch mosque shootings in March 2019, Howard-Browne tweeted his supposition that it was a 'bogus banner' activity: "There is no uncertainty that what occurred in New Zealand as awful as it seems to be, is a bogus banner that will be accused on moderates in the end! Just a complete oddball crazy person, crazy belittled oddity goes into a structure and murders individuals, it's inadmissible on each level!"

Iqaluit Sermon

On August 27, 2019, Howard-Browne conveyed a message in the Canadian Arctic region of Nunavut as a major aspect of a 300-city visit. He lectured for longer than an hour at an Iqaluit church to a for the most part Inuit crowd of in excess of 100 individuals.

The occasion highlighted a call for gifts, including a video of Howard-Browne asserting "God adores a liberal provider," which Nunatsiaq News censured on the premise that neediness is broad in the city and almost 50% of Nunavut's populace depends on social help in the midst of long-standing emergencies in nourishment security and lodging.

The news outlet additionally noticed that he "lashed out" at and "lectured" crowd individuals who attempted to leave before the finish of the message. Remarking after the occasion, Anglican cleric for the Arctic, David Parsons, portrayed Howard-Browne as a fanatic.

Coronavirus pandemic

Howard-Browne kept his congregation open during the 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic and on March 15 advised his devotees to keep shaking hands since they were "evangelist, not pansies".

He likewise asserted in his message that the pandemic was an "apparition plague" designed by the Rockefeller Foundation to close down places of worship and power individuals to get an immunization that would cause mass passings, all as a major aspect of a populace control conspire.

A little while earlier, Howard-Browne guaranteed in a video that he would fix Florida of coronavirus. On March 29, 2020, Howard-Browne's assembly gotten a visit from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office about his infringement of the area's more secure at-home request.

The following day, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister declared in a question and answer session that he had given a capture warrant to Howard-Browne for unlawful get together and for damaging guidelines in regards to general wellbeing crises.

He handed himself over to a nearby sheriff's office on March 30, 2020, and was reserved for unlawful gathering and for abusing wellbeing and security rules. He was discharged 40 minutes after the fact.