The Revival that Could and DID!
My name is Amy Hosp and I want to share with you what I have seen God do in a little sleepy town of Dawson Springs Kentucky through the Evangelist Eddie Coe and his wife Worship leader Heather Coe.
On Saturday Oct 9, 2021, I was in the midst of a trip home back to Ft Worth TX. I had spent time in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama and was at the time passing through Kentucky. I had seen so many beautiful sights and learned new history about my birth family and of course history about the states I had visited but more than anything I had learned that driving a long time during the day makes you very tired. The last time I did any type of trip like this I was a small child which meant that I did none of the driving so I had no idea how tired I would be at this point. I had been traveling for 2 weeks already and didn’t really have a plan. See, I stepped out in faith and in a van that I had bought just a few weeks prior to this for the sole purpose of doing missions out on the road and going wherever and whenever God told me to go. Up to this point I had seen some really beautiful things that I longed to see for ages such as the Smokey Mountains, and the color of trees in the fall, in Texas the color on the trees in fall seem to last a few days, or at least not long enough to get out to enjoy the sight of the changing leaves. I saw these things and they are beautiful and I had seen some historical things here and there and not always on purpose, but it was time I thought to head home. I wasn’t hearing from God any certain direction to take, all I knew is that I didn’t want to drive through Mississippi, it’s a super boring drive for me, and besides that I wanted to drive a way that I had never gone before. I had been to Alabama just a few weeks prior to that so I felt that I had covered that southern drive.
After deciding that I for sure was going to go a different route I settled my van toward the new direction and drove until I was past tired. I decided that I would find a place to stop and rest and maybe even spend the night and start out again the next day. Let me step out of my story for a minute and tell you an important fact to understand about this story that I’m telling you. For the past month or even more I had been wanting to attend a revival. I looked and looked around the town where I live to find a church that was having a revival. Bingo, I found one at First Baptist Azle TX. I was on my way to visit a friend and I saw in their parking lost a big tent and I knew it was a revival. So, I excitedly drove through the parking lot and right back out again without stopping promising myself I was stop by on Tuesday night, this was on Monday. Well, on Tuesday it rained and rained and rained right at the time that the service was to start so I didn’t go. After that I gave up on finding a revival in the area where I lived. Now, back to the story…
Being so tired I was very relieved have found a Marathon Gas station to be able to stop for a rest. I went inside to use the restroom and on a bulletin board that was on the wall leading into the restroom I saw a flyer advertising a nightly revival with Evangelists Eddie and Heather Coe at Dawson Springs Revival Center. I knew that was a God and that He had set up my day for me. My new plan, rest and go to the revival that night and continue toward home the next day. After that stop I found myself seeking out the address on the flyer and quickly found that there was no church looking anything at the address. Disappointed I decided to look around this small town, which I didn’t even know the name of yet, to see if any churches had anything showing there was a revival at their facility. I found nothing. At this point I was feeling very determined to find this revival, after all I had been wanting to go to one for a more that a month by now. Soon I found myself back at the gas station on the edge of town to take a picture of the flyer so I could use my resource skills to track down this revival. Searching for the Pastor Adam Berry and his wife Laura online turned up nothing. So, next I looked at the evangelist name on the flyer, Eddie and Heather Coe and I continued my sleuthing finding Eddie on Facebook and also his phone number. I called the number so excited knowing that I was about to hear a sweet kind voice that was going to direct me straight to the revival at 7 that evening. I dialed the number and the voice on the other end simply said, “Who’s speaking?” He really was very kind and told me that there was a women’s conference right then at the church and they were serving lunch and that I if I went right now, I would be able to have free lunch. That sounded like a good deal to me so I found the church with his directions and it was the most incredible thing that had happened to me in a long time.
Not only was the conference very inspiring but the ladies there were so nice and loving and of course invited me back that evening. I met Heather there that afternoon and I felt a very strong connection right away, like I had known her for years and I found myself opening up to her in ways that I usually reserve until I feel I can trust the person.
During the conference I learned that the Coe’s had been in Dawson Springs Kentucky holding 50 days of revival and had just the previous week planted a new church right there where the conference was being held. I call this blog entry The Little Revival That Could and Did because God DID a big thing in this little place of Dawson Springs Kentucky and is stilling doing big things.
My story of how I decided to travel in a van and just go wherever I felt God leading me and why the Coe’s would go to a little sleepy place like Dawson Springs may raise the question of how you know that God is or isn’t telling you to do something. I’m not going to tell you all about that because I believe that God speaks to each of us according to our personalities. What I am going to tell you is that once you step out in faith and start doing what God has said, or what you think He has said, you will start to see confirmations along the way that you are on the right track. Finding that flyer for the revival was my first sign that I was on the right track. For the new Dawson Springs Revival Center, which is the name of this new church, and the Coe’s things started showing up from the beginning of the revival to show them that they were on the right track for going home in the direction I had chosen. I don’t know all that happened to show them the right track before I got there, I’ve just heard pieces of the story here and there but from the time that I showed up I saw so much happen in favor of this movement that the only way a person would miss that God is involved is if they were blind and even then God would have healed that blindness by the end of your first visit to this revival.
When I got to the church there were tables set up with tablecloths and cute center pieces and a big screen TV on the wall, a strip of carpet at the front of the church, a curtain that acted as a wall, a cute bathroom way in the back of the building where items were stored that were for sale at one time. I was told that this building had been a Dollar General store and had been provided for Dawson Springs Revival Center for $200.00 a month. Y’all a church only paying $200.00 a month are you kidding me? If that’s not God then what or who is that? It was a comfortable place to meet to worship the Lord and have a revival but I knew that there was more that God wanted to do for this church. That first night that I attended the revival the table and chairs had been left up because we were going to partake in the very awesome leftovers from the ladies luncheon. It was an anointed and productive time in service that evening and the Lord showed me that these surroundings were only the beginnings of what God was going to do in this body of believers. On the back wall of the church, written on the wall, it said seasonal clothing. I shared that I saw this church as it is now in seasonal clothes and that as the seasons for this body changes so will it’s appearance and how it looks not only on the inside, but on the outside as well. I told them to leave that writing on the wall to remind them that their seasonal clothes were going to look very different years from now and that will be a reminder as to how God brought them from minimal beginnings in such a big way. Little did I know that first night about what all had been provided to this church, free of charge, for them so that they are actually a year or two, or more into what most churches would have three to five years into starting from scratch. This is a big sign that this revival and this church is what God had told the Coe’s to start in Dawson Springs.
I joined this group of people in Kentucky with only 7 days left of this 50-day revival and the second week of being a new church. I felt God asking me to stay there and I believe it was mainly to watch and learn about the miracles that were taking place in Dawson Springs. Miracles concerning or happening to the people attending consisted of physical healing of hips and backs and knees and also healing of emotional and mental things. Eyes, ears, sinuses, and fingers also and I’m sure things we will not know that happened as well. I also attended a service of healing in a nearby Methodist church where Heather and Eddie ministered. Cheryl, a ministry companion that travels with the Coe’s told me about the power she had seen during these 50 days of revival. She is a beautiful servant of the Lord.
Other miracles that I saw and learned about were to do with the church building. Heather had been searching around the internet to find tables for the conference and she found a lady that was going to sell her the tables but as Heather shared what the tables were for this lady began to offer for free to the church from her inventory not only the tables now for free, but chairs and even a bus. A bus! She asked Heather is the church could use a bus and Heathers said “Yes, we can”. Within that one phone call God provided tables, chairs, wedding materials (church’s do have weddings in them you know), a bus to get people to church in and other things that I’m not even aware of and on top of all of those free items, the church secured free carpet and new curtains for the building. Not only was the carpet free but the labor to install it was free courtesy of ministry friends Chuck and Tammy Whitfield and their kids and nephew. God also provided paint and materials for a bathroom. The people of Dawson Springs Revival Center all pitched in and did the work that it took to get the doors open for the church to be productive.
Looking back at what I saw in one week of being at this revival and all of the might works that God has done in marriages, and healing in bodies and healing in emotional things and hearing incredible worship and hearing the very unique way that Eddie delivers the Word of God, (he reads the Word and then explains it but he does with with truth that cuts right to the core of the issue inside of you, no just tickling ears or political correctness with him). Eddie is a strong teacher of the Word and Heather is an anointed worship leader able to break open the paths that the enemy tries to block in hearts. I would say this movement of God is right on Track and they are heading in the direction of God, full steam ahead.
Personally, I have learned so much from the teaching of the Word from Eddie and from the sweet and anointed worship from Heather and the kindness and the determination of the members of Dawson Springs Revival Center to keep going forward with God that it has changed my life. I have learned that the revival that I was looking for was inside of me this whole time and now I’m learning how I carry that revival with me everywhere I go. I’m also learning that I can be just who I am and I don’t have to confirm to the standard around me to fit in or to follow God. Where am I learning this from, from Eddie’s teaching and from Heather’s worshiping. The Coe’s are online through the day having prayer, teaching and worship to reach as many as possible for the Kingdom of God.
If you want to learn the things that I’m learning and see the kind of miracles that I’m seeing and if you have ever dreamed of starting a church, I encourage you to find the Coe’s online and start watching and learning from them.
Find them at:
https://www.facebook.com/edward.coe.3
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHkS9g-fvMANNxiF4jQQLOg
https://www.heartsablazeministries.net/
Pictures from Dawson Springs Revival Center
