TheCall

TheCall was an organization which sponsored prayer rallies led by Lou Engle along with other Christian leader pastors in the United States.

[1] TheBriefing, an email newsletter rallying followers around political issues pertaining to TheCall's goals and giving prophetic assignments for intercession, has been continued by Engle's friends, Paul and Cheryl Amabile.

Originally planned as a co-ed youth version of Promise Keepers, the event was intended as a "counter [to] what Engle and Ahn viewed as a creeping cultural tendency towards apostasy, particularly through the liberalizing US courts and the toleration of abortion.

[3][1][4][5] Engle believes that gatherings such as TheCall are necessary to prevent divine judgment from taking place in the United States due to legalized abortion and the acceptance of homosexuality in American culture.

[8] Religion scholar Matthew D. Taylor argues that TheCall DC was highly influential – that the event and its New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) leaders "helped create the very mass-gathering, prayer-and-warfare styles that were on display on January 6 [2021].

"[Calls] to 'take back the land' of Muslim Americans" by engaging in spiritual warfare prayer over mosques, described as "like sending our special forces into Afghanistan", drew concern.

[16] Attendees were asked to pray for millions of children to be adopted, for the overturning of Roe v. Wade and for “the reform or the resigning of judges” within the Supreme Court.

[17] The three-day fast held from March 8–11, 2017,[18] called for women to pray for the support of the President of the United States, the ending of witchcraft, removing anti-semitic beliefs in America, and for the reversal of Roe v. Wade.