A massive fasting and prayer gathering drew one of the largest crowds in the history of Nashville's L.P. Field on Saturday.
Some 100,000 people answered "The Call" under the blazing sun to turn around a nation that many evangelical Christians believe is on a moral decline.
"We’ve come here with a faith that God can turn a nation and mighty shift can take place here today," Lou Engle, founder of The Call, told the crowd of mostly young adults.
With minimal advertising, The Call had drawn 55,000 by late afternoon, according to The Tennessean. But local TV news channel WKRN reported growing attendance throughout the day and estimated 100,000 total participants who came from as far as Washington state.
Organized by Engle and a group of charismatic pastors, speakers and authors, The Call was an intense day of crying out in prayers as stadium-filled crowd was called to repentance.