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I spent a week at The Toronto Vineyard way back when (1993 or 4?). It was in the fairly early days of what was happening then and a few groups from my church went over. I honestly thought the people were really nice, though obviously (in hindsight) entirely deluded. Carol and John Arnott came to our church a few weeks later and I liked them too. At that point I was still pretty much into the whole thing and we were all going to church every blooming night for 'revival' meetings. However, by the time Cindy Jacobs came with her stories of meeting angels, things were really going downhill and I was fairly convinced that it was a load of old twaddle.

I don't know the ins and outs of what happened with my church leadership team, but it became pretty obvious that some were more involved in the Toronto Thing than others and eventually it brought about splits, though there were probably other issues too.

Before Toronto we'd been through the Reinhard Bonnke experience, and Eurofire (I just googled and it was in 1988... ack) with Reinhard, Suzette Hattingh and Benny Hinn. It's incredible to me now to look back and see how sucked in by it we all were. Again I keep coming back to thinking about who knows what at what level in these organizations. I was taken in. I was 110% involved and committed, believing we were on the right track. I'm certain most if not all of our leaders were. But the guys at the top must know that this is all one big fraud, and I don't get how they can sleep at night.

I'd forgotten about it too but I was reading a history of the Toronto Blessing and it stretches back to there and beyond. I didn't know that the Arnotts had hung out a lot with Benny Hinn and that they were all Katherine Khulman fans. It all kinds makes sense now. There was also a horrendous meeting with Rodney Howard-Brown at Docklands at around the same time.. awful.