World Revivals, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
We have held countless meetings spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ all over the world.
We have founded two churches
Located at 90 Garland Drive, Ellijay, GA 30540 Service time is Sunday 11:00 a.m.
Located at 18140 AL Hwy 176, Fort Payne, AL 35967
Service times Sunday at 11:00 a.m. and Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.
20 Years of Evangelistic ministry under the tent, in churches and home prayer meetings
The year of 2018 marks forty-six years that Bro. Meador has labored in the ministry. Thirty six of those years he has been married to his wife Lisa. They started with almost nothing, a beat up old truck and a twenty-one foot travel trailer that was already worn out when Bro. Meador got it. The early years were years of hardships, no air conditioning in the small car or truck and the trailer was so old that it had lights that worked off of propane gas. The only time they had electricity was when they ran the generator at night to power the lights and sound system for service under the tent. Many meetings they didn’t have running water and had to haul water to the tent lot in barrels. These years created a burning desire to see souls saved and developed a strong faith in God. Through the years God began to bless them for their faithfulness and determination. God began to open doors for the ministering of the word and miracles became almost a daily occurrence as Bro. Meador was a man of fervent prayer and continual fasting. It wasn’t long before God had given them better vehicles and better living facilities and a new revival tent. A door to the mission field swung wide open, Bro. Meador had been to Central America but this was Sis. Meador’s first experience on the mission field. This kindled a burden in both of them which would have a life long and far reaching effect.
John and Lisa Meador
Biography of Bro. John Meador
Bro. Meador was born in 1952 into a family of born again, Holy Ghost filled believers. His Mom and Dad received the Holy Ghost around 1948. By the time Bro. Meador was born, his Dad was already a Pastor. Bro. Meador grew up in church where the Spirit of God moved in a mighty way in weekly services and also in the daily lives of his family. The healing stripes of Jesus were made manifest by the healing of many childhood diseases such as measles, mumps, chicken pox, not to mention broken bones and severe burns were all healed through the prayer of faith. His early grade school years were spent in revivals at churches and tent revivals his father conducted. There were many summer nights under the tents of A. A. Allen and Oral Roberts. The power of the Holy Ghost and the sight of great miracles seemed to have a mesmerizing effect on this young boy. He knew by the age of seven what direction his life would take. He had already begun to feel that drawing and calling of God to preach his word and minister deliverance.
His earliest personal experience was at about 8 or 9 years old when he would attend cottage prayer meetings. The Spirit of prayer would fall on him as a young child and he was able to pray prayers of words that were well beyond his years of wisdom and understanding. The next instance in his life was a few years later at a small country church in Tennessee where he knelt at an altar and told the Lord he wasn’t’ leaving until he received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. The Lord honored his faith and sent an outpouring of the Spirit in his life and his lips began stammering and numbness came upon him for about two hours. All through his early years and adolescence, his thoughts were on things of God and many times he would go into the woods and pray and talk to God. Yes he was a full blooded American boy and was into many activities, but his heart was always talking to God. Many times he would tell Jesus “I wish I could have lived in your days and seen the great miracles, I would have followed you everywhere.” Now he understands that it wasn’t for him to live then, but now. Not just to see the miracles of Jesus but to have them manifested through his own life. There were many other experiences that molded his life until he was 19 years old. In 1971, at the age of 19, he made a complete surrender and fully committed his life to serving God. It wasn’t long after he was saved until the Lord gave him a spirit of prayer. The hunger for God grew in his soul and he would spend hours in prayer and study of the word every day. He also spent days in fasting seeking to find and fulfill the will of God for his life.
As the dedication grew, he found a faith for miracles and deliverance was growing in his life and it was not long until people began to seek him out for prayer. This birthed a great desire in his heart for evangelism and a burning desire to have a tent ministry. The old days of great deliverance from his childhood began to stir in his soul. One day in 1976, as a preacher was preaching in a very large church that was packed with people, Bro. Meador had an open vision and he saw a man about 25 feet tall stand on the platform and cry out to him saying “come over and help us.” The man was a dark skinned man of another race and the burden for missionary work was placed in his heart that day. The early years were spent preaching on the street and visiting jails and prisons, hospitals and nursing homes. He went anywhere he felt he could use what God was putting in him to help people. One day while preaching on the street in 1977, the Lord spoke to his heart to form an evangelistic corporation and call it World Revivals, for He was going to send him around the world to preach the gospel! At that time he didn’t even have a car or any way to travel locally. His first tent meeting was held in Rome, GA, in 1978. He started with a small well worn 30×50 tent. He had to borrow $500.00 to buy it from a Church of God preacher. Bro. Meador preached his first tent revival without a platform. At night, after service, he would sleep on the ground on a bedroll and spend his days praying and studying under the tent. Before service each night he would drive to a local service station and clean up in the restroom. From that meeting the ministry grew and God has blessed him because of his hunger and determination to do something for the kingdom of God. It wasn’t long until God was blessing with tents, trucks, sound equipment, travel-trailers, all to be able to evangelize this country and around the world. Everywhere God sent him he saw lives changed and people healed and delivered. Lives have been changed by the thousands through one man’s dedication and determination to God.
You will see pictures on this website of many healings and miracles and of many missionary crusades that start back in the 1980’s and go through the present time. We arepraying that this web site will be a blessing to you. We ask for your prayers and financial support as we press forward to fulfill the calling and vision God has given. The harvest truly is ripe but the laborers are few. HERE AM I SEND ME!