Extending the 'Call'

Ed Thomas - OneNewsNow - 7/18/2008 7:45:00 AM

A national live event today will serve as a pre-rally for a return gathering of "TheCall" prayer and revival movement this August on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Founder Lou Engle and a major media organization scheduled to broadcast the event are urging Christians to prepare for and support "TheCall DC."

Beginning this evening at 7:30 p.m. (Eastern), GOD TV will broadcast a live pre-Call rally from Miami, Florida, to inspire viewers with worship, prayer, and information about the purpose of the massive gathering on August 16 in DC -- where it is hoped that at least one-million people will gather to fast and pray for the nation. Engle says the Call movement itself was birthed eight years ago out of its last prayer gathering in DC, and that the time has come again for a return because of the critical state of the nation.
 
"I've been on the phone with major leaders from America...from Ron Luce, to Tony Perkins, James Robison, Luis Palau, Latino leaders, African-American leaders," Engle shares. "Here's what they're saying: there is no hope for America apart from prayer. Everybody knows there's such a shaking, such a decline."
 
The time is right, says Engle, to return to the National Mall in the nation's capital and call America to what he describes as a "united, massive" move of fasting and prayer. "When there's no hope for a nation, when there is no remedy, God still has a holy prescription: blow the trumpet in Zion, call a fast, gather all the inhabitants of the land," he states.
 
A spokesman from GOD TV says the network will broadcast the live rally from El Rey Jesus Ministries in Florida because it wants to help mobilize the Body of Christ from coast to coast in America, which it believes will be needed in its entirety to turn the country around with constant, corporate prayer.

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