Posted on 08/02/2008 4:28:41 PM PDT by Apollos21K
Organizers of a Christian prayer ministry are expecting over a million people will fill the National Mall in Washington, D.C, on Aug. 16 for a 12-hour assembly of fasting and prayer for the country.
The group is called TheCall, and according to their website, volunteers are working hard to gather people from every state in the country to fill the massive park between the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol on one day to fervently ask God for his undeserved mercy on the nation.
Originally inspired by the 1997 Promise Keepers "Stand in the Gap" assembly at the same location, TheCall held its first D.C. prayer rally on Sept. 2, 2000, counting over 400,000 attendees. Since then, the group has held rallies in several cities in the U.S., including a rally of 70,000 in Nashville and 85,000 in New York City, according to the group's website. The group has also held prayer gatherings oversees, but told television broadcaster GOD TV this year's TheCall DC will surpass all previous gatherings in size...
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I believe it. The previous ‘Call’s’ have attracted many young people. I remember Washington for Jesus back in the late 70’s or early 80’s. Wonderful experience.
I think there was one for the nation in 1980..
Pat Robertson and members of Congress etc prayed in DC and it was shown by satellite in every state...
I watched it on a screen in a park in Charleston, SC
Prayer brought us Ronald Reagan...
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