Starting Friday night (Feb. 28) at 7 p.m. CST, an unprecedented event called Gather25 will unite the global church in a way it has never been done before.
Gather25 is a free 25-hour global broadcast that will unite followers of Jesus across the world to pray, repent, worship, and discover how Christ’s love is transforming the world through everyday people.
Sessions will feature teachers, worship leaders, storytellers, and prayer guides. These speakers include Gather25 visionary Jennie Allen, Francis Chan, Christine Caine, Matt Redman, Priscilla Shirer, Louie Giglio, Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes, Rick Warren, Sadie Robertson Huff, Matt Maher, Taya, David Platt, Jenn Johnson, Trip Lee, and Ann Voskamp, to name a few.
For the past 10 years, Allen has been leading IF:Gathering, a ministry that exists to “equip women with gospel-centered resources, events, and community so they may learn more about who God is and disciple other women right where they are.”
Allen told ChurchLeaders that Gather25 grew out of a dream she had in 2022 after a friend prayed for her.
“I had this vivid dream that Jesus was coming back in 10 years,” Allen said. “I have no idea when Jesus is coming back, but I cannot help that on a night that a friend prayed for me to hear from God in my sleep—which no one had ever prayed for that for me before—I had a vivid dream that Jesus was coming back in 10 years.”
That dream “put a fire in me,” Allen continued. “The crazy thing is, 2033 is actually the 2,000-year anniversary of the church. And all of these organizations that I work with that have helped build Gather25 have the same mission statement of 2033,” which is, “to get the gospel to everybody, everywhere by 2033.”
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“It’s a wild decade I believe that we’re in the middle of. And not to mention, we’re watching revival happen everywhere,” she added.
By leveraging AI, the global church will come together in a gathering unlike anything since the first century “because we haven’t had the tools for it,” Allen said. “AI is making it possible for us to live translate.”
