Kevin Ranaghan is married to Dorothy Ranaghan, and has six children and twelve grandchildren.
11 Facts About Kevin Ranaghan
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Kevin Ranaghan was born in New York City in 1940 to parents of Irish Catholic descent.
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Kevin Ranaghan heard about a new work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of some friends at Duquesne University.
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The book was translated into several languages, and Kevin Ranaghan traveled extensively, both in and out of the United States, to spread the news about this Pentecostal outpouring in the church.
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Kevin Ranaghan's travels brought him into contact not only with Catholic groups throughout the world, but with groups of Protestants from Pentecostal, mainline, and evangelical streams of Christianity.
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Kevin Ranaghan served as a bridge between Catholics and those from other denominations who, for the first time in history, were experiencing a simultaneous and similar renewal in the Spirit.
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Kevin Ranaghan joined United States National Service Committee for the Catholic Charismatic Renewal for 15 years, and for 11 years was its executive director.
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Kevin Ranaghan has been a principal organizer of national and international conferences, especially the 1975 Catholic Leaders Conference in Rome, and the 1977 Ecumenical Conference in Kansas City.
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Currently serving as an ICCRS Council member representing community expression of the renewal, Kevin Ranaghan serves as council vice-president.
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Kevin Ranaghan was a member of the council from the time of its establishment in the late 1970s until 1984.
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Kevin Ranaghan was a founding member of the People of Praise, an ecumenical Christian covenant community.