David Terrell_ William Branham's Successor
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Rev. David Terrell, AKA Daniel H. Ford, was a faith-healing evangelist in the Latter Rain version of William Branham's "Message" cult of personality, appointed into the Latter Rain's five-fold ministry as a "prophet" by Branham himself during a revival held in Shreveport in 1960. Terrell held or participated in revivals from coast to coast under the Full Gospel umbrella with Branham and the other Voice of Healing evangelists and boasted of having the "world's largest tent". Like Branham and many others in the revivals, Terrell used "prayer cards" as part of his stage act.
Terrell was influenced by the Voice of Healing / Latter Rain movement in the early 1950s. A. A. Allen, Jack Coe, and William Branham were considered by Terrell to be "heroes of the faith", and Terrell described them as such in his literature. Terrell referenced his alleged healing by William Branham well into the late 1990s.
David Terrell's revivals were not without controversy. Terrell and his campaign team were frequently defending themselves in court for disturbing the peace with excessively loud audio equipment and were arrested multiple times. In 1964 one of Terrell's tent revivals was loud enough to anger the Sheriff, and the Sheriff promised that "his deputies would work all night if necessary to insure[sig] that the warrants were served". The revivals, which lasted well past midnight, could be heard from several blocks away inside nearby homes.
On one occasion, Terrell called out young men wearing shorts for "disrespect for the service", after which those same men beat Terrell's assistant unconscious. According to witnesses, those same individuals entered the prayer line pretending healed.
Terrell was an adherent of William Branham's Manifest Sons of God theology, claiming that he was the new "Messenger" to spread "the last Message to a dying world" after Branham's death in 1965. He apparently believed Branham's 1977 doomsday prediction enough to stop paying income tax in 1976. In February of 1985, Terrell was convicted on four counts of willfully attempting to evade federal income taxes for the years 1976 through 1979. In 1974, Terrell sent a Message to over a hundred thousand believers to migrate to Bangs in Brown County, TX to await the end.
David Terrell:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/david_terrell
Terrell was influenced by the Voice of Healing / Latter Rain movement in the early 1950s. A. A. Allen, Jack Coe, and William Branham were considered by Terrell to be "heroes of the faith", and Terrell described them as such in his literature. Terrell referenced his alleged healing by William Branham well into the late 1990s.
David Terrell's revivals were not without controversy. Terrell and his campaign team were frequently defending themselves in court for disturbing the peace with excessively loud audio equipment and were arrested multiple times. In 1964 one of Terrell's tent revivals was loud enough to anger the Sheriff, and the Sheriff promised that "his deputies would work all night if necessary to insure[sig] that the warrants were served". The revivals, which lasted well past midnight, could be heard from several blocks away inside nearby homes.
On one occasion, Terrell called out young men wearing shorts for "disrespect for the service", after which those same men beat Terrell's assistant unconscious. According to witnesses, those same individuals entered the prayer line pretending healed.
Terrell was an adherent of William Branham's Manifest Sons of God theology, claiming that he was the new "Messenger" to spread "the last Message to a dying world" after Branham's death in 1965. He apparently believed Branham's 1977 doomsday prediction enough to stop paying income tax in 1976. In February of 1985, Terrell was convicted on four counts of willfully attempting to evade federal income taxes for the years 1976 through 1979. In 1974, Terrell sent a Message to over a hundred thousand believers to migrate to Bangs in Brown County, TX to await the end.
David Terrell:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/david_terrell