Our take: Mississippi pastor Terry Long of Lilly Orchard Baptist Church has been praying for revival for 100 days, giving up his salary and fasting for a portion of that time. Since he started, more than 1,500 people have visited the 11-foot cross he has stayed beside to pray with him, receive salvation or to nail their prayer requests to the cross, including convicts picking up garbage and out of town visitors who saw the cross and stopped out of curiosity.
An unusual sight an 11-foot-tall wooden cross with hundreds of written prayer requests nailed to it has been turning motorists' heads and prompting some of them to get out of their cars since Jan. 23.
For 100 days, pastor Terry Long has kept vigil at the cross.
Today (May 15) is his concluding day at the busy intersection of Highways 63 and 613 near the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
"I felt the Lord told me to do three things," said Long, who has been in the pastorate since 1981, the last eight years at Lilly Orchard Baptist Church in Escatawpa.
"One was to put a cross out here on the highway. At first I didn't know where it was to go, but it just clicked that this was the intersection. Through a series of circumstances, this is where I ended up.
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