Todd Bentley Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Education, Wife, Family, Career and Net Worth

Todd Bentley Biography

Todd Bentley is a Canadian Christian evangelist. He was a key figure in the Lakeland Revival. Additionally, he was in the leadership of Fresh Fire Ministries Canada until stepping down in August 2008. The following year, as part of his restoration process, he started a new ministry called Fresh Fire USA.

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10 Quick Facts About Todd Bentley

1. Name: Todd Bentley
2. Age: 46 years
3. Birthday: 10 January
4. Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
5. Height: 5 feet 8 inches
6. Nationality: Canadian
7. Occupation: Christian evangelist
8. Marital Status: Divorced
9. Salary: Under Review
10. Net worth: $1.5 million dollars

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Todd Bentley Age

Bentley is 46 years old as of 2022, he was born on 10 January 1976, in Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada. He celebrates his birthday on10 January every year and his birth sign is Capricorn.

Todd Bentley Height

Todd stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches.

Todd Bentley Weight

Bentley has a weight of 72 kg.

Todd Bentley Education

Todd enrolled at the University of Hawaii where he pursued a Bachelor in Liberal Studies, English Language And Literature, Literature, English Language.

Todd Bentley Family

Bentley was born and raised by his parents in Gibsons, British Columbia. Our efforts to find out more about his family came to no avail as no such information is publicly available. Thus, the identity of Bentley’s parents is still unclear. It is also not known if he has any siblings. We will update this section once this information is available.

Todd Bentley Wife

Bentley was married to Shonnah and they were blessed with three kids. They had family issues that pushed them to separate. Todd and the love of his life had been attending counseling for the past three years but the Charisma reported that counseling was suspended for the last four months while Todd was away from his home in Abbottsford, British Columbia, he is known for his multiple body piercings and tattoos, his violent healing techniques, his claims of angelic visions and “holy” laughter and “holy” vibrating shakes. He even claims to have raised dozens of people from the dead.

Todd Bentley’s Net Worth

Todd has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million dollars as of 2022. This includes his assets, money, and income. His primary source of income is his career as a Television Personality. Through his various sources of income, Todd has been able to accumulate good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.

Todd Bentley Measurements and Facts

Here are some interesting facts and body measurements you should know about Todd.

Todd Bentley Wiki

• Full Names: Todd Bentley
• Popular As: Todd
• Gender: Male
• Occupation / Profession: Christian evangelist
• Nationality: Canadian
• Race / Ethnicity: Not Available
• Religion: Not Available
• Sexual Orientation: Straight

Todd Bentley Birthday

• Age / How Old?: 46 years
• Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
• Date of Birth:10 January 1976
• Place of Birth: Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada
• Birthday: 10 January

Todd Bentley Body Measurements

• Body Measurements: Not Available
• Height / How Tall?: 5 feet 8 inches
• Weight: 72 kg
• Eye Color: Not Available
• Hair Color: Not Available
• Shoe Size: Not Available
• Dress Size: Not Available
• Breast Size: Not Available
• Waist Size: Not Available
• Hip Size: Not Available

Todd Bentley Family and Relationship

• Father (Dad): Not Available
• Mother: Not Available
• Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): Not Available
• Marital Status: Not Available
• Wife/Spouse or Husband/Spouse: Divorced
• Dating / Girlfriend: Not Available
• Children: Three

Todd Bentley’s Net Worth and Salary

• Net Worth: $1.5 million
• Salary: Under Review
• Source of Income: Christian evangelist

Todd Bentley Career

Todd grew up in Gibsons, British Columbia, a small community on the western coast of Canada.[citation needed] As told in his autobiography, his parents divorced while he was a child, and he struggled with drug and alcohol addiction.

Bentley was convicted at age 15 of sexually assaulting a much younger boy two years earlier. The nature of his conviction became public when Bentley thought he was speaking off the record to a reporter. The reporter later published his remarks in a March 2001 magazine article from The Report.

Bentley publicly responded to this article in an interview that was published in Charisma. That article reported the following concerning a “revival meeting” Bentley had held in Kelowna, Canada. “The family of the assault victim had moved to Kelowna, and when they saw the posters with Bentley’s name, they contacted local media. Bentley decided to address the local outcry by going on the 6 p.m. local TV news broadcast.

He admitted the crime on-air and asked for forgiveness. He told viewers how ashamed he was, and how he was transformed five years after the incident by the gospel’s power.”

Bentley later said the original article, which appeared in The Report Newsmagazine, was, in substance, true: “‘They were sexual crimes,’ Bentley admits. ‘I was involved in a sexual assault ring. I turned around and did what happened to me. Also, I was assaulted too.'”

At 17, Bentley was hospitalized again after his fourth drug overdose. At 18, he changed his lifestyle completely, due to his conversion to Christianity. Soon after this, he began his Christian ministry.

Todd Bentley Fresh Fire Ministries

In 1998, the Fresh Fire Ministry group asked Bentley to give his testimony at one of their weekly meetings. Soon after, on Mother’s Day 1998 Bentley took over leadership of the group. Additionally, it became more of a revival movement. He traveled to India, Africa, South America, Mexico and Europe taking part in crusades and revivals.

This became Fresh Fire Ministries Canada which was led by Bentley until the time of his resignation in August 2008. This is after his separation from his wife. That ministry changed its name to “Transform International” in 2009.

That same year, Bentley, with the help of Rick Joyner, created a new ministry called Fresh Fire USA. Fresh Fire USA leases space adjacent to Joyner’s Heritage International Ministries Conference Center, where they have a “FreshFire Healing Center” and a local church, “Secret Place Church.”

Todd Bentley Lakeland Revival

Beginning on April 2, 2008, Bentley was invited by Stephen Strader. Stephen is the pastor of Ignited Church, Lakeland, Florida, to lead a one-week revival. The revival attracted up to 10,000 attendees nightly and around 30,000 over the week with Bentley as the primary preacher. In addition to showcasing Bentley’s evangelism, the revival featured colorful light shows and power-chord Christian rock music.

The Ignited Church also took a multimedia approach to publicize the event, posting webcasts online. It streamed live via Ustream and received over 1 million hits in the first five weeks of transmissions. After the initial weeks, GOD TV, a Christian satellite channel, pre-empted its primetime programming and broadcast the Lakeland meetings nightly.

Faith healing was a major focus of the revival. Inspired by Biblical New Testament accounts of Jesus healing the sick, the contemporary practice of faith healing is important for Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians. Healing testimonies were common at the Lakeland meetings. The hope of supernatural healing explains some of the Lakeland revivals’ popularity, as there were many first-person accounts of miracles.

ABC’s Nightline reported that “Not a single claim of Bentley’s healing powers could be independently verified”. However, the Charlotte Observer reported on the same series of meetings, “The revival’s media relations staff has tried to document healings.

They e-mailed the Observer information on 15 people reportedly healed, providing phone numbers for each and noting that 12 had received medical verification. The Observer contacted five, plus three whose names were not provided, including Burgee. Each said God had healed them through or related to, Bentley and the Lakeland services.”

Strader responded to the Nightline report with the following statement, “Strader said privacy concerns and laws forbidding the release of medical records have prevented revival officials from releasing complete information about the identities and conditions of people claiming to be healed.”

Todd Bentley Criticism

Bentley was also criticized for occasional violence done to participants in prior meetings. He was known to kick, hit, smack, or knock over participants. In one incident, a man was knocked over and lost a tooth. In another, an elderly woman was intentionally kicked in the face. Bentley held that the Holy Spirit led him to such actions, saying that the incidents were taken out of context and adding that miracles were happening simultaneously.

On 9 July 2008, ABC News’ Nightline broadcast an investigative report on Bentley, focusing on his faith healing claims, finances, and criminal past. Following the report, Bentley took time off from the revival but returned on 18 July 2008. Five days later, Bentley and Strader announced that Bentley would be leaving the revival permanently and that his last day would be 23 August 2008.

Bentley’s last day of preaching that year was on Friday 8 August 2008 when he left Lakeland for his first, and only, day of “taking the revival on the road.” He drew a small crowd in South Carolina during an open-air meeting at Heritage International.

Three days later it was reported that Bentley, “has filed for separation from his wife, a former spokesperson said Monday, and will not return to the ongoing revival.” Four days after that on August 15, 2008, the news of his resignation became public.

After the news of the resignation was released, many Christian leaders released statements filled with opinions on what had gone wrong with the Lakeland Outpouring. While they all admitted there were serious issues, they did not agree on the specifics as some came from old friends, others from those trying to be neutral, and others were calling Bentley a “false prophet.”

In December 2012, following the death of Croydon MP Malcolm Wicks, Bentley was criticized in the UK press after making a video commenting on the MP’s death. The transcript of the video released on the MorningStar Ministries website stated, “Bentley: But September 29th, I was preaching in Ohio.

And just before midnight, I got a report that the man that led the ban and the campaign against us in England died suddenly of cancer; on September 29th. Joyner: Remember the Lord said, “Mark your calendar.” Now, this is an important revelation.

Todd Bentley Return to the Ministry

In 2010, Rick Joyner released Bentley into “limited ministry” and Bentley eventually returned to preaching and leading crusades.

Bentley was made the subject of an exclusion order barring him from entering the country. The UK government’s home office stated, “The government makes no apologies for refusing people access to the UK if we believe they are not conducive to the public good. Coming here is a privilege that we refuse to extend to those who might seek to undermine our society”.  Local ministers had expressed concern about Bentley’s unorthodox and often violent healing methods.

Bentley started a series of meetings in South Africa in April 2013. He returned to GOD TV, which broadcast meetings held in Tongaat, South Africa, on April 12, 2013. In May they broadcast some meetings in Pretoria and from Cape Town in June.

On September 21, 2015, Bentley uploaded a smartphone video to YouTube taken the night before at a crusade. The crusade was held in Pakistan where he claims that a man was raised from the dead on the stage. He then went on MorningStar TV., showed the video and claimed that three men were raised from the dead that evening. The video does not provide medical evidence that anyone was clinically dead.

Todd Bentley Theology

Bentley highlights scriptural passages in his sermons. He emphasizes that spiritual or supernatural encounters in an individual’s life are gifts from the Holy Spirit. Todd has stated that his priority is to help people experience the presence of God. He wants the “Holy Spirit to manifest His glory in such a way that people can’t deny the presence of a living God and they have a true born-again experience.”

He also says: “Miracles and healings are evidence they are signs of the Kingdom, and if we don’t have signs then all we have is a bunch of theology.”

Bentley’s testimony includes certain controversial claims, including encounters of meeting with Paul the Apostle. He has also preached about an encounter with an angel he called ‘Emma’, at an Assemblies of God church in 2001. The angel appeared in female form “and sprinkled ‘gold dust,’ illustrating financial blessings, on the congregation where he was preaching.”

In response to criticism about the Biblical inspiration of an angel who appeared female, Bentley wrote that it was God’s choice. Additionally, he said that it was not his choice. He also stated that an angel appeared to him in that manner. Bentley explained: “In the case of the angel called ‘Emma,’ who I described as having mother-like nurturing qualities, some have automatically assumed that my doctrine is that I believe in female angels. This has never been the case! For whatever reason God chose to show me this angel in a female persona, He did.

This isn’t to say that the angel was female. Angels are spirits and appear in many forms. Perhaps that’s the form God chose this angel to take for the purpose of the revelation He gave me. They are spirit beings of light, created out of God’s glory, without gender, and appear in whatever form God chooses to send them to us.”

Joel’s Army

Bentley sponsored an internship program with Fresh Fire Ministries Canada called ‘Joel’s Army. In addition to having the words “Joel’s Army” tattooed across his sternum with military dog tags, demonstrating a level of commitment to the Latter Rain doctrine of the Manifest Sons of God, as preached by William M. Branham.

The program’s doctrine is associated with an interpretation of Chapter 12 of the New Testament book, Revelation. It says that in the last age before Jesus returns, there will be a generation of specially endowed Christians who will be able to do many miracles and will usher in the reign of God. This is in the tradition of Branham and the healing revivals of the 50s, overlapping with Latter Rain Movement theology.

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