In the June, 1994 issue of Charisma (pp. 54-58), there was an article by Steven Smith about the spread of the revival to the Christian Teaching and Worship Center (CTWC) in Woburn, a suburb of Boston. The 450-member church is pastored by Mona Johnian and her husband Paul. Her book, Fresh Anointing (South Plainfield, NJ: Bridge Publishing, 1994), provides 132 pages of descriptions of the new revival from her perspective. According to Charisma, the revival broke out in their church after they attended revival meetings led by Rodney Howard-Browne in Jekyll Island Georgia, in November of 1993. At first, Mona was not impressed by the various phenomena she observed there, but she was surprised that her own pastor, Bill Ligon of Brunswick, Georgia, fell to the floor when Rodney Howard-Browne laid his hands upon him. "Bill is the epitome of dignity, a man totally under control," she said. The first chapter of her book describes a meeting at her church in which revival broke out while Bill Ligon was there as a guest minister. From the Johnians' church, the revival spread to other churches, including Bath Baptist Church of Bath, Maine, pastored by Greg Foster.
In a video entitled Revival, produced in his church in August of 1994, Paul Johnian said, "We cannot refute the testimony of the Church.... What is taking place here is not an accident. It's not birthed by man. It's by the Spirit of God.... The last week in October of 1993, Mona and I went down to Georgia. We belong to a Fellowship of Charismatic and Christian Ministries International, and we went down there for the annual conference. And hands were laid on us. And we were anointed. And I'm just going to be completely honest with you. What I witnessed there in the beginning I did not even understand. I concluded that what was taking place was not of God ...because there was too much confusion.... I saw something that I could not comprehend with my finite understanding. And it was only when I searched the Scriptures and asked God to show me and to reveal truth to me that I saw that what was taking place in the Body of Christ was a sovereign move of the Almighty. And I, for one, wanted to humble myself and be a part of the sovereign move of the Almighty. And I came back. I really didn't sense any change within me. But I came back just believing God that He was going to be doing something different in our congregation."