SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA -- His unusual speaking style and powerful messages have electrified an ardent following of young people across the country. Now Lou Engle - the visionary co-founder of The Call D.C. - is calling on young people to gather in Sacramento, California to pray and fast for justice and spiritual awakening in America.

Lou Engle

Since 2000, The Call has gathered hundreds of thousands of people to pray both nationally and internationally. Engle assembled over 400,000 mostly young people to the Mall in Washington D.C. ten years ago when he issued a "prophet's call" for them to enter into a lifestyle of radical prayer, fasting, holiness and acts of justice.
 

Engle is a man brimming with passion, emotion and boldness, sparking comparisons by some to the Old Testament prophet Elijah. He and other leaders - representing a diverse cross-section involved in The Call, have challenged America to return to the moral and spiritual principles of our founding fathers, repent from sin, and pursue righteousness.
 

California is the focal point for what Engle believes will be a fresh outpouring by the Holy Spirit beginning in the state capital of California, on Labor Day weekend, September 3rd and 4th.
 

"It's a significant time for California," Engle says. "We've got to have God. And as California goes, so goes the nation."
 

Engle has been gathering pastors, prayer leaders and worshipers over the past few months, in preparation for the event. He believes the U.S. is at a crisis point, with trouble looming due to an onslaught of unrighteousness.
 

"May God have mercy on our nation and turn us back to our righteous roots. I am asking God for a million souls and I believe we are ripe for Jesus. We are desperate for revival and I am praying this Call in Sacramento will move the heart of God, for without God I see no hope for us."
 

Engle now lives in Kansas City with a home base at the International House of Prayer. But he spent much of his life in California and felt drawn back to his home state.
 

"I'm going to Sacramento, believing God is going to stir us for Him, that He is going to visit us in a powerful way. I see a great harvest and I believe this is a significant time in my own personal journey."
 

More disillusioned with our government that at any other time in his life, Engle knows people are more open to God than ever before. "The government cannot help us anymore. It's far too shaky. People's hearts are ready for the Lord."
 

God has given Engle and his team a special passage for the event from Psalm 50:1-15, especially verse five where the Lord asked believers to: "Gather My consecrated ones to Me, those who have made covenant with Me by sacrifice." (Psalm 50:5) And then verse 15,"Call upon Me in the day of trouble and I will rescue you and then you will honor Me."
 

"America is in a Psalm 50:1-15 moment," Engle asserts. "It is a very sober moment for the Body of Christ to come together to fast and pray."
 

While Engle expects mostly young people to attend the event, he sees people from all ages coming to Sacramento: "This will be a multi-generational gathering," he said. "We need the fathers and mothers in the church to be disciplers for those who will be coming out of this harvest."