Mark 11:22-26 Have you ever heard of the Haystack Prayer Meeting? In 1806, Samuel Mills, a college student from Williamstown, Massachusetts, felt a burden to pray for foreign missions. Until then, mission organizations in the United States were solely dedicated to domestic work on the Western frontier and among First Nations tribes. But Mills prayed the Lord would raise men and women to take the gospel to foreign nations. One August day, Mills assembled a small group of spiritually minded friends who prayed together outside of the campus for foreign missions. Some accounts say there was a sudden thunderstorm as […]
