Evangelist Connie Carpenter

Connie’s powerful anointing is unique among the ministries I’ve known. She carries a passion for the Holy Spirit and for revival that is almost unmatched by any that I’ve personally encountered. Her anointing seems to be most similar to Kathryn Kuhlman and Benny Hinn, yet uniquely her own. To me, there are a few areas that particularly stand out:

(1) Genuine miracle ministries are rare – many ministries can say healings have occurred at some point in their ministry, but it’s rare for it to be an earmark of a ministry – particularly when including the kind of creative miracles that have occurred in her ministry.

(2) Across the Western world, It has become more and more uncommon to find the weight of God’s presence manifest in meetings. I am unaware of any other ministry that carries the combination of an intense reverence for God, is marked by the fear of the Lord, and carries a presence of the holiness of God as hers does. There are others that are also characterized by dramatic and unusual moves of the Holy Spirit, but not in this combination, intensity, and expression.

(3) Another salient point is the ‘quality’ – for lack of a more accurate word- of the God-encounters people have when she prays for them during meetings. Being Slain-In-The-Spirit has become very common in Pentecostalism and the charismatic movement. I still remember when it was relatively rare for it to occur, even in the most intense meetings. There was a day when only a few ministries carried a genuine anointing for that consistent manifestation of the Spirit. However, with being Slain in the Spirit having become very common, there has also been largely lost a depth and intensity of the Holy Spirit’s work in people while being Slain. I suspect there are a few reasons for this. However, again, Connie’s anointing particularly stands out in this regard. No such dilution or shallowness marks the moving of the Holy Spirit in her meetings. There seems to be genuine, deep, change that takes place within people by the time they get up off the floor. I am seeing an actual inward work taking place in them – I am sad to say that – in my opinion – this has become rare within the church today.

(4) Many ministers have either an anointing for worship, preaching/teaching, or for laying hands on people and ministering to them in the gifts of the Spirit. She is a rare minister who moves in all three. Importantly, there is a manifest presence of the Holy Spirit and the holiness of God that is present throughout the time she ministers the Word. I have personally found that to be very rare – the manifest weight of the presence of God while preaching.

I have found Connie to be a consistent, unique voice for revival, the presence of the Holy Spirit, and the holiness His presence brings. She brings a purity of the anointing and motive that I’ve only seen a few times. Rare indeed are those who match the depth and intensity of the anointing she carries – even rarer still is the heart, for revival and personal transformation evident in her ministry. I count it a great privilege indeed to have worked with her and to be able to call her a friend and a mother in the Lord.