In the video below, hear Doug Hall explain Boston’s Quiet Revival – how God worked through unknown people in hidden, forgotten neighborhoods to significantly change the face of this secular city.  In over four decades, the number of churches in Boston – many of which were planted in the city's worst slums – has nearly doubled (from approximately 300 in 1970 to 575 in 2010) and the estimated percentage of the city’s population in churches has increased from about 3% to about 14%. Christians participated in bringing change to many of Boston’s neighborhoods, and many people groups within this global city area are authentically exhibiting faith.

The challenge: Now that the Christian faith has matured into larger churches and Christian organizations, along with the prestige of higher education and more resources, our challenge is not to forget the core of our faith, nor to take credit for what God alone does.  But rather, let us remember the roots of the early pioneers, bearing in mind Paul’s admonition to the first century Christians that “not many of you were wise…, influential, …of noble birth. But God chose the foolish,…weak,…lowly, …despised things that are not – to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.” (I Cor. 1:26-29)