Vistory in Jesus and the Lord’s Healing Touch

The world called me a fool for having given my entire life to One whom I've never seen. I know exactly what I'm going to say when I stand in His presence. When I look upon that wonderful face of Jesus, I'll have just one thing to say: "I tried." I gave of myself the best I knew how. My redemption will have been perfected when I stand and see Him who made it all possible.

Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman was born in Concordia, Missouri, to German-American parents. She was born-again at the age of 14 in the Methodist Church of Concordia, and began preaching in the West at the age of sixteen in primarily Baptist Churches. Ministry Kuhlman traveled extensively around the United States and in many other countries holding ＂healing crusades＂ between the 1940s and 1970s. She was one of the most well known healing ministers in the world. Kuhlman had a weekly TV program in the 1960s and 1970s called I Believe In Miracles that was aired nationally. The foundation was established in 1954, and its Canadian branch in 1970. By 1970 she moved to Los Angeles conducting faith healing for thousands of people each day as an heir to Aimee Semple McPherson. She became well known for her uncanny gift of healing despite, as she often bragged, having no theological training. Death and legacy In July 1975 her doctor diagnosed her with a minor heart flare up and she had a relapse in November while in Los Angeles. As a result, she had open heart surgery in Tulsa, Oklahoma from which she died in February 1976. Kathryn Kuhlman is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. A plaque in her honor is located in the main city park in Concordia, Missouri, a town located in central Missouri on Interstate Highway 70. After she died, her will led to controversy. She left ＄267,500, the bulk of her estate, to three family members and twenty employees. Smaller bequests were given to 19 other employees. She influenced faith healers Benny Hinn and Billy Burke. Hinn has adopted some of her techniques and wrote a book about her. In 1981 David Byrne and Brian Eno sampled one of Kuhlman’s sermons in their album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. The track was entitled ＂The Spirit Womb,＂ a mis-hearing of Kuhlman’s actual utterance ＂the spirit world.＂ When Kuhlman’s estate refused to license the use of her voice, the track was re-recorded as ＂The Jezebel Spirit＂ with an unidentified exorcist’s vocal replacing Kuhlman’s.The original Kuhlman-vocal has been released on a bootleg but not officially. Healing Many accounts of healings were published in her books, which were ＂ghost-written＂ by author Jamie Buckingham of Florida, including her autobiography, which was dictated at a hotel in Las Vegas. Buckingham also wrote his own Kuhlman biography that presented an unvarnished account of her life.