In 1920 Raymond T. Richey was an assistant to an evangelist. While preparing for a meeting the evangelist canceled and God told Richey to preach the meeting himself and pray for the sick. The third night a woman's crippled arm was healed and the place filled to capacity. Healings and salivation occurred every night. This opened the way for a new itinerant healing ministry. They struggled through financial hardship and attacks by the enemy. Then God called them to hold a citywide revival in Houston, Texas in 1921. They did not have the money for it but pressed on.
They started in a tent but it was too small. They moved to the City Auditorium and filled it. The revival went forty days and they saw 5,000 conversions. People came out of wheelchairs, deafness, tuberculosis, arthritis, blindness, and other diseases were healed. 40,000 people had received healing prayer. At one service 13 people were brought in on stretchers and 12 walked home. Richey then held meetings in Galveston and San Antonio. One meeting, held in Spanish, brought in over 10,000 Hispanic residents. In Forth Worth the auditorium was too small and when people were refused entrance they climbed the walls to sit in the windows to hear. They went back to Houston twice in 1923. After one of the revival meetings a parade was held for those who had been healed. It was 13 blocks long! In a meeting in Tulsa there were 11,000 conversions and a truck was piled high with crutches and other medical supports that had been left behind.
Credit; B.E Taylor