Reports came in Wednesday, June 23, 2010, that the well-known healing evangelist Charles Hunter died in his Houston-area home in Texax, on Monday night, June 22, after battling with health problems for several years. He was 89 years old.
Charles Hunter and his wife, Frances, spent nearly 40 years leading healing crusades worldwide before her death last July at age 93. Known as the Happy Hunters, the couple wrote numerous books on divine healing, including the best seller How to Heal the Sick, and produced teaching DVDs to train others in healing ministry.
"The Hunters were a wonderful combination of two people who loved each other and loved the Lord," said Stanley Burgess, a distinguished professor of Christian history at Regent University's School of Divinity and author of The Encyclopedia of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity. "The other thing that impresses me about them is that they loved to train people, and you don't find training for healing in many places. It's going to be very hard to find others that have equal success in that area."
Hunter's daughter, Joan Hunter Murrell, said her father had essentially been bed-ridden for several months and suffered from a weakened heart. She said he died peacefully after lying down for bed.
[Editor's Note: Melvine and I met the Hunters in Anaheim, CA, at the 25th Full Gospel Businessmen's Convention. Later they came to Birmingham and we attended their crusade in the Civic Center in downtown Birmingham. Those were the years of the Charismatic Movement and our church reaped a harvest of people from that period of time. I found the Hunter's interesting, inspiring, full of life, and convinced of what they were teaching and doing in the power of the Holy Spirit. There may never be any two people like them again.]
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Wed, June 23, 2010
by Hugh Morgan