Description: The unbelievable story of how one town truly prayed without ceasing
In 1999, a small town on the south coast of England became the birthplace of the extraordinary, accidental, international movement known as 24-7 Prayer. Their inspiration was a seemingly chance visit by founder Pete Greig to Herrnhut in Germany, where the eighteenth-century Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf had initiated the Moravian prayer watch, which ran without ceasing for a hundred years. Five years later, Phil Anderson undertook an aerial road trip on a tiny four-seat airplane from England to Germany, a remarkable journey to uncover the history of Zinzendorf and the movement he led. Part history, part narrative, The Lord of the Ring takes readers on a fascinating journey back to the eighteenth-century Moravian renewal movement and their hundred-year prayer watch. Anderson retraces the steps of Zinzendorf, reconnects with his legacy, and seeks to apply it to life and faith in a new millennium. Learning from the past, readers will discover crucial signposts for grappling with the church's identity and calling as an authentic, relational, missional community.Brief description: Phil Anderson is a battle-hardened local politician from Thurrock in South Essex, branded by UK media as "Britain's most Eurosceptic area" and "the country's capital of misery." Phil has been a director of the Thames Gateway Development Corporation and the Thurrock Racial Unity Support Taskgroup, a codirector of the National Prayer Breakfast, and a regular media contributor in print, radio, Internet, and occasionally television.