A non-stop “prayer watch” was held for over a hundred years beginning in 1727 by a small group of Moravian believers in a small village called Herrnhut. Many have connected this collosal effort in prayer by a realtively small group of young believers to the Second Great Awakening, which began in 1790 and saw untold thousands come to faith in Christ. The Moravians themselves sent about 300 missionaries into foreign missions, at a time when evangelism and mission work were largely dormant.