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John G. Lake was a man greatly used of God
during the first half of the 20th century.
He was perhaps best known for his healing
ministry which was centred in the Healing
Rooms that he started in Spokane in 1915.
During a five year period (1915-1920) Lake
and his team of “Divine Healing Technicians” were used by God to effect over 100,000 healings.
Dr. Lake trained his Technicians with a series of divine healing lectures.
John G. Lake was born in Ontario, Canada March 18, 1870. He moved with his parents to the U.S.. in 1886 and was saved in a Salvation Army meeting at about the same time. By the age of 21, he was married and was ordained in the Methodist church. Lake’s early memories were of sickness, death, funerals, and grieving parents. Eight of his 16 brothers and sisters died of various diseases. His new wife also became sick and was on the verge of dying.
This was the condition of things when John first heard the message of healing. He immediately began a study of divine healing. His wife was healed through the prayers of a man some distance away, by the name of John Alexander Dowie.
In September 1914, Lake relocated to Spokane, WA where he ministered in a church for six months before launching his own ministry which became known as “Lake’s Healing Rooms”. When Lake left Spokane in 1920, the Healing Rooms he founded, closed and were not re-opened. (The building burned in the late 1930’s and an entirely new building was built in it’s place.) In 1920, John moved his growing family (Lake, Florence, their 7 children from his first wife and now five more children by Florence.) to Portland, OR with a plan to duplicate the Spokane work. Which he did. Again, over 100,000 healings. After five years in Portland, Lake began to grow restless and launched out on a 6 year traveling ministry which resulted in the birth of churches, healing rooms, and healing campaigns in Sacramento, CA., San Diego, CA., and Houston, TX.
When Lake returned to Spokane, WA in 1931, he bought an old Methodist church and started his work over. For a while, he had healing rooms in the church, but they were shut down when he once again moved the church.
Dr. Lake (an honorary term bestowed upon him by his congregation because he was getting more people healed than the local doctors did.) passed away on September 16, 1935.
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