Redigging the Well of Revival at Llangan and Tri-County Gathering - 12th August 2010

 The theme of the Llangan prayer gathering on Thursday 12^th August was “God’s Glory” and this theme was reflected in the praise, worship and prayers that were offered up to the Lord throughout the day. We sensed that He was inhabiting the praises of His people from an early stage at the village hall where we first gathered. This resulted in some moving prayers and also a prophetic picture of an altar of stones by one of our group. 

At midday we drove down to the village itself for a short service in the historic church of St Canna’s where we were to remember the life and death (two hundred years’ ago to the day) of the “Angel of Llangan” the Rev David Jones.  His godliness and evangelical zeal had been instrumental during his forty years of ministry in the village and beyond in causing five revivals to break out there, the first in 1773 and the last in 1805. We were joined in the church by the rector of the parish, the church wardens  and by a number of  the local congregation, and the more informal style of our praise and prayers seemed to be well received. 

After the service we made our way via nearby Treoes north for two miles to the spot very close to where the three counties of Bridgend, Vale of Glamorgan and Rhondda Cynon Taff meet. This is located just by junction 35 of the M4 motorway. There we ate our packed lunch together and prayed for each county in turn, and for any of the group representing those counties. Two scriptures were read out at the beginning including Isaiah 62:10 – “Pass through, pass through the gates! Prepare the way for the people. Build up, build up the highway!  Remove the stones. Raise a banner for the nations.” One of our number felt we should each pick up a stone and throw it into the nearby stream as a symbolic act of the removal and cleansing of the sins of the people in those counties. This we did after we had walked a short distance on to a footbridge overlooking the stream, one side of which was in the Vale of Glamorgan and the other in Bridgend. Here we finished our time together near the midpoint praying for the areas of Bridgend we represented, and for the Christian initiatives in the town such as the street pastors, the food bank and the Christian youth café. All in all we sensed the Spirit of God leading each varied section of the gathering in a special way and for that we give Him the glory.

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