England is a country with a population of almost 60 million people. In Metropolitan London alone, there are 10 million people inside the city limits. The city stretches approximately 55 miles from east to west and about 45 miles from north to south. London is much like the United States in that it is a melting pot for many cultures and nationalities.

At one time England was aflame with spreading the Gospel of Christ to lost and dying countries. They were the world’s center-point for foreign missions. They were responsible for sending men like David Livingston, William Carey, John Elliot, and many others to foreign lands. Now, 150 years later, America is sending missionaries to this once mission-minded country. England has become starved for the preaching of the Word of God. This is the reason we must go to rekindle the dying embers of Christianity.

Charles H. Spurgeon is a name that is well-known among Christian circles. He built the largest Baptist church in England. He started Sunday school, churches, an orphanage, and a pastors’ college. C. H. Spurgeon preached to thousands of people at his church in London for over 40 years. Unfortunately, many years later after Spurgeon’s death, his church is now a shadow of what it once was. Though empty churches like this appear throughout the country, the people are still open to the Gospel.

God can do incredible works in a country that turns back to its Saviour. England, just as America, has the same promise from God, "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”  (II Chronicles 7:14)