At the same event, he described Mormonism as a "cult" that, in the 19th century, "had death squads that would go around killing everybody that was not a Mormon". In 2012, it was reported that Howard-Browne’s River Church had hosted political meetings for the Florida chapter of the Republican Party during the preceding two years, including a rally for then presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, at which Howard-Browne called for a national "rising" of Christian Americans "that will not sit idly by and allow the killing of unborn babies and allow Islam to take over this country".
He then vowed that “since the devil has taken their daughter with this dreaded disease, he would pay with one million souls over the next ten years”. Howard-Browne’s daughter Kelly died due to cystic fibrosis in December 2002 at the age of 18. Investigative journalists in his home town of Tampa reported at the time that since arriving from South Africa almost penniless in December 1989, his sudden wealth included a boat, a Harley Davidson motorcycle, a home in one of Tampa’s exclusive gated communities and access to a private jet however, they were unable to find evidence of financial wrongdoing. It was estimated to cost up to $10 million but only 3,000 people were in attendance at the 19,000-seat arena.
The event, called Good News New York, was described as “an effort to achieve a Billy Graham-style faith uprising”, but was “derided in local media as a giant flop”. Howard-Browne first came to national prominence in the US in 1999 when his Revival Ministries organization rented Madison Square Garden in New York City for six weeks. Howard-Browne also ministered under pastor Mike Rose at the Juneau Christian Center (formerly known as the Bethel Assembly of God) in Juneau, Alaska, an AOG church that Sarah Palin later attended after becoming governor of Alaska. He is also credited with bringing holy laughter to the charismatic Toronto Airport Vineyard Church (soon after expelled by its parent Vineyard Church) at a 1994 revival in Toronto, Canada with evangelist Randy Clark, known as the “Toronto Blessing," and a year later, to Assemblies of God (AOG) Brownsville Church in Pensacola, Florida with evangelist Steve Hill, at an event known as the Brownsville Revival. The holy laughter revivals later spread to nearby churches in Melbourne, Titusville, Stuart and Vero Beach, Florida.
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Howard-Browne is credited with introducing holy laughter to Carpenter's Home Church in Lakeland, Florida during a series of revival services with Karl Strader in 1993. He refers to himself as "God's bartender" and the "holy ghost bartender". Howard-Browne’s services are characterized by laying of hands and worshipers giggling with apparent drunkenness, speaking in tongues, making animal noises, breaking into uncontrollable holy laughter, shaking with mirth, dancing in the aisles, or falling to the ground. Howard-Browne and his wife also founded Revival Ministries International in 1997, as well as the River Bible Institute and the River School of Worship.
In 1996, Howard-Browne founded The River at Tampa Bay Church in Tampa, Florida and has since served as its pastor. Rodney's brother Gil went on to operate Times of Refreshing Ministries, an online evangelical ministry. The Rodney Howard-Browne Evangelistic Association was incorporated in November 1993 and the family moved to the Tampa Bay, Florida area in 1994. In December 1989, the family emigrated from South Africa to the United States, settling in Louisville, Kentucky, and in 1991, he began holding revival meetings. In the 1980s, he volunteered for Youth for Christ before doing a teaching stint with Ray McCauly’s Rhema bible school in Johannesburg. In 1981, he met and married his wife Adonica (née Weyers). His father Frank Mervyn Derric Howard-Browne (1924-2005) was a cleric, and Rodney became a Christian at age five. Howard-Browne and his 3 brothers (Mervyn, Bazel, and Gil) were raised in a Pentecostal family in the cities of Port Elizabeth and East London in South Africa. 2.6 Arming of The River at Tampa Bay Church.2.5 Human sacrifice in Hollywood and Washington, DC.2.3 Allegation of plot to attack Donald Trump.2.2 Multi-level marketing: Monavie and Jeunesse.
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