TheCall DC 2008

Venue: The Capitol Mall, Washington D.C.
Date: August 16, 2008
Attendees: Over 7o,000

Purpose

The purpose of TheCall DC was to overthrow the altars of immorality, abortion and false ideologies, as the nation and the church stood at a historic crossroads morally and spiritually.

Summary

In 1968, Martin Luther gave his I Have A Dream speech before 250,000 black Americans on the Mall in DC. He sounded a prophetic trumpet to the nation, crying out, “Let my people go,” in the face of the “Jim Crow” laws of morally eroded governmental leaders and systemic racism. The sound has continued into this present generation, where a prayer and justice movement is crying out again for God’s dreams to be fulfilled in our time.

In 1980, John Gimenez heard the sound and led Washington for Jesus on the DC Mall where 800,000 assembled to pray for mercy on our land.

In 1997, Promise Keepers gathered 1,000,000 men on the Mall for their Stand in the Gap event. They prayed, fasted, renewed covenant, and warred against the pornographic plague sweeping the church.

In 2000, TheCall DC gathered 400,000 youth for united fasting and prayer, and a nationwide prayer and justice movement began.

In 2008, eight years after the original Call, that same sound went again to gather youth on the Mall to cry out to the Lord, and about 70,000 came.

On the same day as TheCall DC, Pastor Rick Warren brought the abortion debate to the forefront during a civil forum he held at Saddleback Church with presidential candidates John McCain and Barak Obama. This was really the first time during the campaign that abortion was spotlighted on the national stage. It was as if God was answering the prayers from TheCall DC to make abortion a wedge issue.