Healing Rooms. Now there's a term that would pique the interest of any Journal reader. It did mine. I was visiting a healing service in a local evangelical church and met a man who mentioned that he was planning to open "divine healing rooms." I was curious.
This new friend, Peter Hill, is a born-again Christian who's devoting his time to healing the sick through prayer and laying on hands. Through this work, he hopes to bring people into a first-hand knowledge of Christ. He was planning to join the growing movement of Healing Rooms, public venues for this kind of healing ministry that have been opening in storefronts, offices, homes, and churches around the world. Preparing to open the Healing Rooms of New Hampshire in the small city of Keene, Peter was in the process of looking for people to work with him as prayer volunteers. He found 12, and the group opened its doors in September.
A notable aspect of this "faith community" is that its members represent different faiths. Lay Christians from a wide variety of churches—evangelical, charismatic, mainstream Protestant, and Catholic—come together to pray to God to heal people. Healing Rooms are non-denominational, free, and open to anyone who walks in. People arrive with every sort of problem—physical, emotional, financial—and with all sorts of religious backgrounds, or none at all. Some seek prayer to augment medical treatment, others want to rely exclusively on prayer for healing. The Healing Rooms are staffed by volunteers and funded primarily by donations.
