Recently, over 7 million churchgoers from across the globe gathered in a 25-hour prayer service. Gather 25, which was broadcast worldwide, featured inspiring stories, prayer, and corporate worship. The broadcast was hosted from 7 locations and beamed into over 22,000 churches. Over 87 languages were represented in the service. Jennie Allen, who founded the organization, spoke to reporters to offer insight into the successful program.
“What we witnessed was a glimpse of heaven,” she said.”People from every nation, tribe, and language, united in one mission: to make Jesus known. This is only possible through prayer.” According to her bio, “Jennie Allen, Bible teacher, author, and visionary founder of IF:Gathering, is now leading a new movement as the Founder & Visionary of Gather25, a 25-hour gathering of the global Church.”
“Gather25 was an unprecedented 25-hour global broadcast event telling the inspiring stories of the global Church, by the global Church,” reads the website. “Jesus followers in churches, campuses, arenas, and living rooms–from every continent and denomination– joined together across every time zone to watch the Gather25 broadcast that was free to everyone, everywhere.”
“For 25 hours, Gather25 invited believers across the world to pray, repent, worship, and discover how the love of Jesus is transforming the world through everyday people,” they added. “From this moment in history, believers were inspired by the stories of how God is moving across the earth, and are mobilizing to share the hope of Jesus with Everybody Everywhere.”
“For over a decade, Jennie Allen has been inviting women from around the world to follow Jesus and to disciple others to do the same. But in 2022, she began to wrestle with a question,“What if Jesus came back in 10 years?”’ another page reads. “Right now, there are 5.5 billion people on earth who don’t know Jesus. If we truly believed He was coming and coming soon, what would we do to reach them? ”
“What would the global Church be willing to do? Could 2.5 billion Christians on earth be mobilized to share the Gospel?” the organization asked. “With this renewed urgency and vision, Jennie assembled a team. Throughout 2023, this group began to dream about what a gathering of the global Church – every man, woman, and child who follows Jesus – could look like, and Gather25 was born.”
“It wasn’t just Jennie’s vision; it was the shared vision of many Jesus followers. It was clear that God was speaking to leaders across different streams about the next 10 years of the Church,” Gather 25 says. “Major partners began to step in. The Gather25 team began visiting each continent to build relationships and explore possibilities. Then, in February of 2024, the first invitation went out to the 100,000+ women of IF:Gathering.”
Gather25 was the biggest group project that any of us were a part of! And from these incredible days, Christ followers everywhere were mobilized to reach the world. Learn how you can be a part of this ongoing story at EverybodyEverywhere.com.” Gather was a massive success and plans to come back with an ever larger service next year.