On July 6, 1994, the Globe And Mail, a Toronto newspaper, carried an article on the revival in Toronto by Julie Smyth, entitled "Pilgrims Worshipping on a Different Plane," which points out that the Airport Vineyard is in an unimpressive location, at a "nondescript, flat industrial plaza," yet "every day, 100 to 200 Christians from a variety of denominations fly to Toronto from as far away as Japan and Australia on a pilgrimage to the church near the end of one of the airport runways." It states that people are packing into this 400-seat church night after night, "breaking into uncontrollable laughter, shaking, crying, falling to the ground and roaring like lions." According to this article, when the revival first spread to the Airport Vineyard, the ministry staff had to rent a banquet hall to accommodate the crowds, approaching one thousand people per night. Since then, they have been coming from Japan, Australia, South Africa, and many parts of Europe, especially England and Scotland.
The National & International Religion Report (July 11, 1994) reported that "An extraordinary phenomenon has rippled across Argentina, Canada, Britain, the United States, South Africa, and India. Consistent reports describe a state similar to drunkenness, including shaking with laughter, crying, slipping into a trance, and falling to the floor. Repentance, warm feelings of love and peace, the 'return of prodigals,' and a number of salvations also have been reported.... The excitement started Jan. 20 for a small church in Mississauga, Canada, near Toronto.... Also instrumental in bringing renewal and ministering at the Toronto church was Arnott's friend, Vineyard pastor Randy Clark.... 'We don't know why God has picked our dumb little church,' Jeremy Sinnott, one of the Airport Vineyard's pastors pastors, told The Sunday Telegraph of London.... As reports of miraculous manifestations spread, pilgrims from the city's suburbs, the United States, Europe, Australia, Singapore, and Hong King swarmed to Toronto to receive what now is dubbed the 'Toronto Blessing' and spread it to their home churches.... Congregations in Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, Dallas, Boston, Buffalo, Orlando, and Lakeland, Fla., have experienced renewal. They have come under the ministries of evangelists Howard-Browne, Hinn, Cindy Jacobs of the Colorado Springs-based prayer ministry Generals of Intercession, and other lesser-known leaders." By August of 1994, the worldwide reach of the revival was already recognized in Time (August 15, 1994, p. 38), Christian Week (August 23, 1994, pp. 1,4), and THE Toronto Star (August 25, 1994, p. A17).