Brother Mike Velarde started a weekly radio show in 1982 called "To God Be the Glory" to spread his message. In 1984, he renamed the show "El Shaddai". He began holding large prayer rallies that drew crowds of thousands. Today, El Shaddai holds weekly prayer services in Manila that attract vast crowds with praise music, testimonies, and messages of faith and miracles from Brother Mike.
Brother Mike Velarde started a weekly radio show in 1982 called "To God Be the Glory" to spread his message. In 1984, he renamed the show "El Shaddai". He began holding large prayer rallies that drew crowds of thousands. Today, El Shaddai holds weekly prayer services in Manila that attract vast crowds with praise music, testimonies, and messages of faith and miracles from Brother Mike.
Brother Mike Velarde started a weekly radio show in 1982 called "To God Be the Glory" to spread his message. In 1984, he renamed the show "El Shaddai". He began holding large prayer rallies that drew crowds of thousands. Today, El Shaddai holds weekly prayer services in Manila that attract vast crowds with praise music, testimonies, and messages of faith and miracles from Brother Mike.
Brother Mike Velarde started a weekly radio show in 1982 called "To God Be the Glory" to spread his message. In 1984, he renamed the show "El Shaddai". He began holding large prayer rallies that drew crowds of thousands. Today, El Shaddai holds weekly prayer services in Manila that attract vast crowds with praise music, testimonies, and messages of faith and miracles from Brother Mike.
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TEMPLONUEVO & VILLANUEVA B.
ECE 201 HISTORY
• The movement is led by
Brother Mike Velarde, • In 1984, Velarde called • a real estate developer and his show "El Shaddai," preacher. a biblical name for God
• In 1982 Mike Velarde
started a weekly Bible- quoting radio show called “To God Be the Glory” on DWXI that aired Sundays from 9 pm to 11 pm. THE STORY OF BROTHER MIKE VELARDE
• In February of 1978, • reinvigorating his failing
Brother Mike has been heart, and immediately diagnosed with heart restoring his health ailment. after a long period of • As he lay in a hospital illness. bed, waiting for his major • At the turning point in heart operation an angel what he describes as a of God roused him and previously wasted life, delivered the Word of Brother Mike became a God to him, “born again” Catholic. • Every Saturday evening in Manila, Philippines, on a huge plot of land near the airport, Brother Mike Velarde as a servant leader draws vast crowds of believers for a weekly El Shaddai prayer service.
• Velarde then held weekly prayer rallies outside the
vicinity of the radio station that last for 4 hours.
• The rallies were then moved to various locations
such as a Football stadium, at Quirino Grandstand, Rizal Park, at the open grounds outside PICC and CCP, and finally in Amvel Business Park. THE FELLOWSHIP
• In its worship, theology, and aesthetic, El Shaddai often
seems more like the Filipino version of an American Evangelical Protestant mega church than a traditional Catholic lay organization
• Velarde often looks and talks more like a Pentecostalist
preacher and businessman than a Catholic lay leader. THE FELLOWSHIP • They begin with spontaneous prayers, praise and worship songs, and dance. • Worshippers clap their hands, sway, and wave El Shaddai handkerchiefs, white cloths printed with the name “El Shaddai”. • Psalm 91, often used by women as head-covering kerchief at Mass. MAIN OBJECTIVE
• Brother Mike preaches a message to his
followers to expect miracles of healing, financial success, and transformation in their lives if they put their trust in God and live out his Word. El Shaddai International House Of Prayer
Located at Amvel Business Park, Paranaque City
El Shaddai International House Of Prayer
• The fellowship “gawain” is held outside to accommodate
the crowds, and attendees gather on folding chairs and mats in a huge field surrounding a large, high stage, brightly lit for the television cameras that record the services. • On stage, a number of members share ”patotoo”, living testimony, about their experiences of God in their lives. • After more praise and worship songs, members pray the Angelus, a traditional Marian prayer, sing the Our Father, and recite Psalm 91
Russell A. Berman, The Routinization of Charismatic Modernism and the Problem of Post-Modernity, Cultural Critique, No. 5, Modernity and Modernism, Postmodernity and Postmodernism, Winter 1986-1987, Pp. 49-68.