A History of the Watch of the Lord
LESSONS FROM THE MORAVIANS A Prayer Meeting that Lasted 100 Years by Leslie K. Tarr FACT: The Moravian community of Hernnhut, Saxony, in 1727, commenced an around-the-clock “prayer watch” that continued non-stop for over a hundred years. FACT: By 1792, 65 years after commencement of that prayer vigil, the small Moravian community had sent 300 missionaries to the ends of the earth! Could it be that there is some relationship between those two facts? Is fervent intercession a basic component in world evangelization? The answer to both questions is surely an unqualified “yes.” The heroic eighteenth century evangelization thrust [...]
