Devout Flock to 'Holy Highway' (NPR)

From NPR News:

by John Burnett
All Things Considered, February 15

A prayer movement has broken out in a handful of churches along Interstate 35. Participants say that if people pray hard enough, God will touch communities along the highway, which stretches from Texas to Minnesota.

The prayer movement — part of a Pentecostal, evangelical branch of conservative Christianity — began with Cindy Jacobs, a petite and intense woman who heads a prayer ministry called Generals International.

"One day we were praying, and we were reading Isaiah 35, Verse 8, which talks about a highway for holiness," she says. "And we were thinking, 'Wouldn't it be wonderful if along this Highway 35 here, that there was a special time where God just touched everybody that lives in all parts of this highway?'"

Jacobs then developed what she calls a "prayer strategy" for people from Laredo, Texas, to Duluth, Minn., to pray for 35 days along Interstate 35.

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