Healing revival

== 1956 peak ==
By the mid-1950s, dozens of ministers associated with Branham and his campaigns had launched similar healing campaigns.{{sfn|Harrell|1978|p=40}} In 1956, the healing revival reached its peak, as 49 separate evangelists held major meetings.{{sfn|Weaver|2000|p=91}}

[[File:Voice of Healing Magazine Cover, May 1948.jpg|thumb|right|April 1948 cover of ''Voice of Healing'' magazine]]
By 1960, the number of evangelists holding national campaigns dropped to 11.{{sfn|Weaver|2000|p=91}} Several perspectives on the decline of the healing revival have been offered. Crowder suggested Branham's gradual separation from Gordon Lindsay played a major part in the decline.{{sfn|Crowder|2006|p=330}} Harrell attributed the decline to the increasing number of evangelists crowding the field and straining the financial resources of the Pentecostal denominations.{{sfn|Harrell|1978|p=40}} Weaver agreed Pentecostal churches gradually withdrew their support for the healing revival, mainly over the financial stresses put on local churches by the healing campaigns.{{sfn|Weaver|2000|p=92}} The [[Assemblies of God USA|Assemblies of God]] were the first to openly withdraw support from the healing revival in 1953.{{sfn|Weaver|2000|p=92}} Weaver pointed to other factors that may have helped destroy the initial [[ecumenism]] of the revival; tension between the independent evangelists and the Pentecostal churches caused by the evangelists' fund-raising methods, denominational pride, [[sensationalism]], and doctrinal conflicts—particularly between the [[Oneness Pentecostalism|Oneness]] and Trinitarian factions within Pentecostalism.{{sfn|Weaver|2000|p=92}} Weaver also believed that "fraud and chicanary" by the revivals evangelists also played a major role in the decline.{{sfn|Weaver|2000|p=105}}