Three items stand out significantly. We found hundreds of initiatives. We can find no father of this movement. There has been a healthy cross-pollination of ideas, but God apparently has authored the idea of prayerwalking in the hearts of hundreds of pioneers who have quietly gotten on with the job and have passed on the idea to others. Recent exploding movements.
Initiatives appear to be clustered on the timeline.
Our informal queries have surfaced very few reports of prayerwalking before the mid-seventies. During the late seventies, we found several reports about deliberate, corporate, intercessory walks. In the mid-eighties scores of diverse initiatives popped up with very little connection with one another. The movement has gained considerable momentum in the nineties. Diverse styles with a common agenda.