Dalen Garris became a Christian in 1970 during the early years of the Jesus Movement in California. Nightly services were filled with a spiritual outpouring and exposed him to the power of God. It also introduced him to the prophet Joel and his vision that there will be a great end-time revival just before Jesus returns.
Dr. Garris received a call from God and followed Him. He spent a time of planting and ministering in churches in Miami, Chicago, and Arkansas.
During the ‘90s, Dalen Garris began a radio broadcast that ultimately spread to dozens of countries, including Israel and Saudi Arabia. His program, Fire in the Hole, was selected for broadcast across North America on the Sky Angel network four times a week.
A newspaper column followed that grew from some local newspapers in Texas to an online presence in several states, including the Christian Post.
Years later, when he went to Africa, Mr. Garris was able to experience the same exhilarating revival services he had been part of during the Jesus Movement. The message in Four Steps to Revival is the same message he brought to one thousand churches across Africa. Hundreds of churches have been revived while hundreds more were planted. Many churches doubled and tripled in size in a matter of a few weeks after hearing the message in this book while others went out planting new churches.
Because of his work across Africa, Dalen Garris was awarded an honorary Doctorate in 2017 by the Northwestern Christian University of Florida.
Dr. Garris currently lives with Cindy, his wife of 40 years, in Waxahachie and is still heavily involved with churches across Africa. His pressing hope is in seeing this upcoming generation be the Gideon Generation that will usher in this last, great revival that he has preached about for so many years.