It’s Coming - 150th Anniversary of Fulton Street Revival February 17, 2007
Posted by Steve in : Weblog, The City, Church, Urban Church , add a commentIn 1857 there were 30,000 men idle on the streets of New York. Drunkenness was rampant, and the nation was divided by slavery. God raised up a praying businessman, Jeremiah Lanphier. On September 23, 1857 he began a noontime prayer meeting on Fulton Street in the Financial District of Manhattan. Out of a city of 1 million people, six people showed up a half hour late. The group decided to meet the next week and there were 14. The next week there were 23. The following week there were 40. Within weeks there were thousands of business leaders meeting daily.
September 2007 marks the 150th Anniversary of the Fulton Street Revival in lower Manhattan, an event through which God moved so powerfully that the prayer meetings spread across the nation. It is estimated that nearly 1 million people were converted out of a national population of 35 million, including 10,000 weekly conversions in New York City for a season. The revival was a key part of Third Great Awakening. This year, Christian leaders and New York churches are creating a three day extravaganza in September 2007 to commemorate this unbelievable work of His spirit.
