Emphasis Preaching Journal

James Edwin Orr was born on January 15, 1912, in Belfast, Ireland. His birth date seemed to constantly reoccur in his life, for on that date he was converted to Christianity under the influence of his mother, was married, was ordained into the Baptist church, and became a chaplain in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. But what is more significant than the date of January 15 is that Orr traveled the globe as an evangelist. It would be easier to list the countries that he did not hold revivals in than to recount all of those countries that he did. In his later years of life he became a professor at Fuller Seminary's School of World Missions. Dr. Orr died in 1987. One of the lasting contributions that he made is his study of revivals. It was his conclusion that all revivals originated from prayer meetings.

Application: And Jesus instructed us to go and make disciples of all nations.