A.a allen biography

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Arlene Sanchez-Walsh

43 years ago this month, A.A. Allen died in San Francisco, of acute alcoholism allegedly surrounded by empty pill bottles. Allen was a tent evangelist who hit his stride in the s and 70s. Previous to that, he was converted in a Methodist church in the s after a hardscrabble childhood, where by his own admissions, Allen was smoking, drinking, and &#;carousing&#; with women by the tender age of Allen became Pentecostal in the s and joined the Assemblies of God, where after a few pastoral appointments, he settled in Corpus Christi, Texas. Allen became a healing evangelist, and added in copious amounts of exorcisms along with prosperity gospel preaching. His falling out with the Assemblies, like most contestations that become history, depends on who you believe.

Allen tells a story of a &#;dead&#; denomination that refused to build him a bigger church and refused to sponsor his evangelistic radio ministry. Those events put a str

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A. A. Allen

Asa Alonso Allen was clearly one of the most important revivalists to emerge in the early days of the healing revival and was one who ploughed on with grass-roots healing revivalism for over twenty years until his death in Charismatic and controversial, this comparative latecomer to the revival was known as ‘the boldest of the bold’ amongst his peers and loved by thousands of his followers.

Early days

Born in Sulphur Rock, Arkansas, in , he grew up with an alcoholic father and an unfaithful mother who lived with a series of men. &#;By the time I was twenty-one,&#; recalled Allen, &#;I was a nervous wreck. I couldn&#;t get a cigarette to my lip with one hand. . . . I was a confirmed drunkard.&#; (Lexie Allen, God’s Man of Faith and Power, p57, ). Two years later he served a jail sentence for stealing corn in the midst of the depression and thought of himself as &#;an ex-jailbird drifting aimlessly through life.&#; It was at this point that Allen was

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These Prayed

A.A. Allen "Man of Faith and Power"

A. A. Allen was one of the most important of the Healing Evangelists of the "Voice of Healing Revival" Though severely criticized by denominational leaders, denounced by the media and slandered by many others for his sensational ways, God used A. A. Allen mightily to heal thousands and to even launch other ministries such as Gordon Lindsay and T. L. Osborn. Let his story remind you God is no respecter of persons and to the person who seeks Him, He will answer.

Asa Alonzo Allen was born into a severely dysfunctional family on March 27, His parents were fighting drunks who entertained themselves by giving their children liquor and watching their drunken antics until they passed out. As a result all the children grew up as alcoholics. Allen had two brothers, one of which died a drunkards death. Allen ran away from home at 14 to live the vagabond life free of the horrendous home life he lived but continued in