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Monday, September 24, 2007
Report from conference on the 150th Anniversary of the Fulton Street Revival in New York City
Report from Peter Armstrong. Peter is worship director at Bellevue CRC and a student at Fuller Seminary NW in Seattle. He is currently studying at Calvin Theological Seminary and interning at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. He filed this report Friday.
This evening I had the great pleasure of attending the opening session of the 150th Anniversary of the Fulton Street Revival, held at the Hilton in Midtown. The Fulton Street Revival was started on September 23, 1857 by Jeremiah Lamphier. In response to Manhattan’s great spiritual and social need, Lamphier organized a noontime prayer meeting. After a poor first meeting (6 people came, 20 minutes late) the Spirit blew across Manhattan. In the months to follow, between 80,000 and 100,000 people (out of a population of 800,000) committed their lives to Jesus Christ. 80,000 were baptized and joined churches because of what became known as the Third Great Awakening. This movement spawned tremendous missions in the major cities of the United States—Chicago, Philadelphia and Brooklyn (yes, it was a separate city at that point) and around the world. The conference has been organized by many denominations and parachurch organizations in order to study revival and pray for revival in New York City.
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