The Great Haystack Revival
The Great Haystack Revival
"Pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest." Matthew 9:38
On this day, June 28, in the Year of our Lord 1810, the first official foreign missions organization was founded in the United States, named the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Their first missionaries were Adoniram and Ann Hasseltine Judson, Samuel and Roxana Peck Nott, Samuel and Harriet Atwood Newell, Gordon Hall, and Luther Rice. Many of these missionaries were graduates of Williams College, Amherst and Princeton. Four years prior, during a rainstorm in August 1806 a prayer meeting of college students was interrupted, and they ran to a large haystack for shelter and continued praying for world evangelism. Historians have since called this the great Haystack Revival.
Take time today to pray for another Haystack Revival that will send out thousands of new missionaries.
Lord of the Harvest thrust forth laborers into Your harvest fields today, in Jesus’ Name.
YEAR ON FIRE
© Fred A. Hartley, III
All rights reserved
Unless otherwise indicated, the English Standard Bible (ESV) is used.
This daily Christ-encountering, fire-starter is not intended to replace your daily Bible reading and prayer time, but rather to motivate you to spend extended time in His presence.
"Pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest." Matthew 9:38
On this day, June 28, in the Year of our Lord 1810, the first official foreign missions organization was founded in the United States, named the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Their first missionaries were Adoniram and Ann Hasseltine Judson, Samuel and Roxana Peck Nott, Samuel and Harriet Atwood Newell, Gordon Hall, and Luther Rice. Many of these missionaries were graduates of Williams College, Amherst and Princeton. Four years prior, during a rainstorm in August 1806 a prayer meeting of college students was interrupted, and they ran to a large haystack for shelter and continued praying for world evangelism. Historians have since called this the great Haystack Revival.
Take time today to pray for another Haystack Revival that will send out thousands of new missionaries.
Lord of the Harvest thrust forth laborers into Your harvest fields today, in Jesus’ Name.
YEAR ON FIRE
© Fred A. Hartley, III
All rights reserved
Unless otherwise indicated, the English Standard Bible (ESV) is used.
This daily Christ-encountering, fire-starter is not intended to replace your daily Bible reading and prayer time, but rather to motivate you to spend extended time in His presence.
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