Biography

Born in 1969 in Paignton, Devon, one time atheist Peter Cavanna grew up wanting to work in the world of entertainment and settled on a career as a comedian, staging his own comedy revue shows in Torquay by the age of eighteen. Stumbling somewhat accidentally into an evangelistic meeting being held in the same theatre, Peter heard the Gospel of Jesus and was powerfully converted to Christ overnight.

In February 1989, he received the baptism of the Holy Spirit under the ministry of evangelist George Miller and quickly abandoned his career plans in favour of full time Christian service. After spending twelve months working for the local church, tasting every aspect of the ministry, he arrived for training at Mattersey Hall. Within a few months of being at the college, he was miraculously healed from epilepsy, a disease which had been troubling him several times a month since his teenage years, and had made public preaching very difficult.

Completely free of this hindrance, he returned home in 1994, where he spent Saturday mornings teaching the New Testament and ran a youth club on Friday evenings, a group that experienced a wonderful outpouring of God's Spirit. In 1995, he joined a church planting team in Torquay and served as an Assistant Pastor for five years. At the invitation of Dr Glenn Balfour, Peter arrived in Cambridge in the autumn of 2000 and began developing Living Waters International Pentecostal Church.

In June 2005, the church held a series of special meetings with evangelist John Mellor, who proved to be a divine catalyst to a fresh release of miracles, occurring firstly in the Cambridge church and then further afield. News of God's healing power hit the front pages of the Cambridge Evening News, as well as several Christian and secular periodicals. Today, the demand for the healing anointing has launched Peter into a significant travelling ministry and he has the joy of seeing Jesus perform miracles everywhere.  In November 2007, he conducted his first set of meetings outside of the United Kingdom, preaching in seventeen cities throughout the nation of Brazil, and seeing literally hundreds of miracles. 2008 will see him holding meetings on Malta, in Poland and he is currently in talks about visiting the Philippines. Perhaps most important of all, the healings continue to manifest themselves at home in Britain, both on itinerant and as part of the pastoral ministry.

Peter's first book, "Discerning the Spirits: Evaluating the Prophetic Voice" was published by Grove Books in April 2006. It is available from www.grovebooks.co.uk or from Wesley Owen Christian Bookshops.

A new book "Paul's Healing Ministry" should be available in 2009.

 

Peter Cavanna is the Senior Pastor of Living Waters in Cambridge. He has been an accredited minister with the Assemblies of God in Great Britain and Ireland since 1995. He is also privileged to serve on the Assemblies of God Regional Leadership Team for the East of England and holds a Masters Degree in Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies from the University of Wales.