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As we mobilize 1 million Christians to pray for—and share the Gospel with—1 million people who do not yet know Jesus, we must not forget those closest to us. Every one of us lives among neighbors who are near to us but far from God.

The Bless App equips you with the names, insight, and practical tools to pray intentionally for your neighbors and to help followers of Jesus live as a BLESSing in their everyday relationships. It is a simple, powerful way to reclaim the lifestyle of Jesus—guiding believers into five timeless rhythms that strengthen discipleship and expand missional engagement.

Events

Christians in the Marketplace is hosting two back‑to‑back events on November 6–7, 2026 at Triad Christian Center in High Point, NC. The Chaplaincy Conference 2026 runs Friday from 9:30 AM–3:30 PM EST and costs $99, featuring a keynote speaker, workshops, refreshments, and lunch. That evening and the following day, the Kingdom at Work: Reclaiming the Marketplace Conference offers free sessions focused on faith‑driven leadership and workplace influence, running Friday night and Saturday morning through early afternoon. Registration for both events opens August 1, 2026.

A nationwide call to prayer is taking shape, inviting believers to unite around a shared mission of revival and spiritual awakening. This page introduces a 52‑day initiative built on the biblical pattern of Nehemiah, where Christians step into the role of “Gatekeepers” by praying, fasting, and interceding for the spiritual well‑being of their families, communities, and nation. The movement seeks to mobilize one million followers of Christ to pray intentionally for one million souls to come to faith, linking personal devotion with a collective vision for transformation across all 50 states.

Across these 52 days—from September 10 through November 1, 2026—participants commit to daily prayer, strategic fasting, and standing watch over the “wall in front of their own homes.” The effort culminates in a sacred assembly on the National Mall, where churches, pastors, and individuals gather in person or online to seek God’s healing for the nation. The sections that follow provide details on how to participate, how churches can engage, and how this partnership aims to prepare the way for a fresh move of God in America.

North Carolina is coming together for a powerful moment of unity, worship, and intercession. Pray North Carolina invites believers from every county to join in a statewide gathering devoted to seeking God’s heart for our communities, our churches, and our future. With worship, prayer, and voices from across the state, this event is a call to stand together—one state, one voice, one God—as we humble ourselves and ask the Lord to move in a fresh and transformative way.

“Whenever God determines to do a great work, He first sets His people to pray” (C. Spurgeon). This reliable principle begs the question: “How does God mobilize his people to heartfelt prayer?” Most importantly, how does God move Christian leaders who shepherd His church to unite in fervent, persistent, biblically focused prayer for the fulfillment of His purposes? By two things mainly: 1) distress over the degradation of the church and the surrounding culture and 2) hope that God will pour out His Spirit on his church and fill it with His fulness until it overflows with transformative impact on society. Many believers are distressed at the current state of things. At the same time, there is much reason to hope for God’s divine intervention in response to passionate, biblically guided prayer.

Believers across America now mourn the debility of the church; its vitality is faltering, its impact fading, its mission neglected, and its devotion to God being undercut by love for this world. Right now we are enduring the largest and fastest religious shift in American history. Its scope is greater than every previous spiritual awakening in our history combined, only in the opposite direction. Christians are being confronted by “spiritual forces of evil” (Eph. 6:12) operating from the heavenly realms that boldly infiltrate every aspect of society, even the church. These dark powers aim to 1) frustrate God’s purpose to bless all peoples on earth through Christ with countless benefits, including righteousness, peace, joy, and justice, and 2)
inflict endless varieties of misery on everyone. When spiritual decline and cultural decay prevail, God’s people rise up to seek the Lord in prayer as the fountain of every blessing, asking him to fill the earth with his glory, pour out His Holy Spirit, inspire his church, and deliver people and cultures from innumerable troubles. Now is the time to pray with desperation for spiritual and cultural renewal, for divine intervention, for the fulfillment of God’s purposes for his church and his creation in Northeast Ohio.

Christian leaders, especially pastors, have a heightened responsibility to press into God with prayer for the church. Biblical precedent shows that gathering church leaders together to engage in heartfelt prayer for the welfare of their community often initiates widespread spiritual and social renewal both in church and society (2 Chron. 7:13-14; 15:8-10; 34:29-32). New Testament accounts show that when Christian leaders unite in prayer, often in response to social and/or spiritual crises, spiritual awakening and gospel advance follow (Acts 1:13-14; 2:1-4; 4:23-31; 13:1-3).

Jesus himself instills expectation of an outpouring of God’s Spirit in response to prayer with this promise: “If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” (Luke 11:13). Our Father in heaven is especially ready to pour out upon us the blessing we most need and long for, the very Spirit of God who imparts divine life, wisdom, and virtue.

With all this in mind, now is the time for Christian leaders across Northeast Ohio to come together to seek the Lord with biblically grounded, Christ-directed, wholehearted prayer for a God-given spiritual awakening. The trumpet of God is blaring! He is calling us to pray! Join Christian leaders from across our region to humble ourselves, seek the Lord’s face, and be willing to respond through His intervening grace to any changes He calls us to make! (Psalm 110:3)

The Gathering is an extension of the nationwide PATH (Prayer at the Heart) initiative piloted recently in Northeast Ohio. Put The Gathering on your calendar: Sunday, September 24, 6 pm, Calvary Chapel of Cleveland, 709 Brook Park Road, Brooklyn Heights, OH.