We want your full blessing for our city. Transform not Charleston only, but all of West Virginia and Appalachia. It's also drawing comparisons to Kentucky's large-scale camp meetings of the 19th century. This awakening in Graves County, population 35,000, started spontaneously at two small neighboring churches. Since then organizers say more than 400 people have made professions of faith.
People are desperate.
They want to know God personally. Hundreds of thousands of Christians participated in four celebrations, including one in Revolution Square attended by Fidel Castro and his Cabinet members. The increased tolerance of Christianity by the government has made people more willing to embrace the faith, although some persecution continues, Dick Nicholson, Latin America director for the Assemblies of God, told Religion Today. The Cubans are taking the message of Christ to homes, hospitals, prisons, and schools. A church in Havana has added 8,000 members to its cell groups in a year, according to the report.