Rev. Jim McIlrath remembers the 1970 revival because he was there. “When I walked in those doors, it was almost like 53 years hadn’t passed. The same Spirit washed over me,” he recalled.
As an 18-year-old high school senior, McIlrath worked as a janitor at Asbury when revival broke out on that snowy morning, February 3rd, 1970.
“The spirit of worship, the attitude, the people lifting their hands in praise, people kneeling around the altar, just nobody really leading – the Holy Spirit led. I didn’t feel anything different than I felt that morning in 1970,” the retired Georgia pastor told us.
