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Anne Graham Lotz Event Draws 500,000

By Dr. Mark Denison


Anne Graham Lotz drew close to 500,000 people at a prayer event in India earlier this month. And at a separate gathering of 10,000, “nearly every hand” went up when the crowd was asked if they wanted to receive Jesus as Savior, her ministry reported.

According to Vicki Bentley, a member of AnGeL Ministries’ Board, who traveled with Lotz to India, there were advertisements all over the city of Hyderabad for the second annual “National Day of Prayer,” for which Lotz was a speaker.

Thousands arrived on trains and buses. Police numbered the crowd at about a half a million.

Bentley said, “Anne preached on Daniel the prophet. She explained from Daniel 9, that ‘one man, who knew God and prayed, moved heaven and changed a nation.’ Then she challenged those present to pray as Daniel did.”

She continued, “As far as the eye could see, people cried out to heaven, agreeing together as Anne led in prayer for personal and national revival.”

Even the Hindu website reported that “five lakh believers” gathered for the State and National prayer meeting on January 5. (Five lakh equals 500,000.)

The meeting was organized by the Christian Council of Telangana, which brought together bishops from different denominations, including the Roman Catholic Church, Church of South India, and Methodist churches.

On another day, Lotz joined a worship gathering in the countryside, where over 450 churches participated.

“Over 10,000 crowded inside an open air tent with thousands more outside, all listening with rapt attention as Anne shared from John 14. When the invitation was given, a sea of hands went up,” Bentley said.

The minority Christian faith has continued growing in India over the past several years, but they have faced significant persecution at the hands of Hindu radicals.

Still, God is at work. And as seen by the 500,000 who gathered to pray, and the tens of thousands coming to faith in Christ, God is using Anne Graham Lotz to shed the light of the Gospel on the darkest corners of His world.