Following the success of a community-wide tent revival last month, local efforts are currently underway to bring Revive Yazoo Tent Revival to Yazoo City in the spring of 2024.
Father George Woodliff of Trinity Episcopal Church and Luther Martin with the Luther Martin Evangelistic Association are joining forces again for an attempt to bring back the annual Revive Yazoo efforts that were stopped within the community following the pandemic.
“The recent tent revival with Luther Martin was such a sense of community,” Woodliff said. “Within that tent, a sense of community was felt across denominations and racial barriers. That was very powerful.”
Woodliff said the previous Revive Yazoo efforts were held from 2014 until 2020 thanks to the partnership with Bishop Edward Duku. However, the pandemic suspended those efforts.
“Bishop Duku asked to meet me with again during a trip to Yazoo City,” Woodliff said. “I suggested that we meet with Luther Martin together. And through that meeting, we came up with the idea of Revive Yazoo Tent Revival.”
Revive Yazoo Tent Revival will be held on May 27-31 at the Yazoo County Fairgrounds.
“The focus will bring evangelism and bringing people into the Kingdom,” Woodliff said. “But we will also be focusing on reaching out to the local apartment complexes and gang members.”
But before the community-wide revival returns next spring, Woodliff said there are about five months of preparations that he invites the community to join.
“We want to use the five months up to the event to build momentum” he said. “We want to center around prayer but also have prayer gatherings. Those gatherings will be held once in January and February and then every week starting in March.”
The first gathering will be held on Jan. 9, 2024 from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Word of Faith Christian Center, located at 407 Jackson Avenue in Yazoo City.
“It will be a time of service, worship and prayer, but Luther Martin will also be sharing his vision of the tent revival,” Woodliff said.
