“The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest” Luke 10:2.

The catalyst for the largest mobilization of students ever for worldwide missions was a simple prayer meeting that was held during a summer afternoon thunderstorm in 1806. This prayer meeting of only five students launched what was to become the Student Volunteer Movement that is credited with motivating twenty thousand foreign missionaries to consider global vocational ministry.

As I have been reading recently about this “Haystack Meeting,” now two centuries ago, the Lord has put a growing question on my mind: why can’t a student-led, worldwide missions phenomenon happen again?

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