Fritz and the Midnight Meetup: A True Story about Kids Who Prayed

It's midnight at the orphanage, and one by one, a group of children are about to begin a prayer meeting. They sneak out of their beds and meet in the kitchen to pray together. Would anyone else come too? they wonder. Night after night, more and more children join the late-night prayer meeting. But there's a boy in the orphanage, Fritz, who bullies the children who pray. One night, Fritz sneaks down to the kitchen, intending to disrupt the prayer meeting. But what he finds will change his heart forever.

Readers will share the excitement as the characters sneak down the stairs to the midnight prayer meeting, and they will feel the tension of the bully's threats. But most of all they will discover the difference that children can make when they pray. This story offers the perfect way for parents to begin a conversation about the blessing of corporate prayer--and how the youngest members of the kingdom play a valuable part.

Fritz and the Midnight Meetup is based on a true story that happened at an orphanage in Germany in 1860, a time of revival in the country. The final page shares the story behind the book and leaves young readers with a reminder that, by God's grace, such a revival could happen again.

Megan Hill lives in Massachusetts in a hundred-year-old house with her husband and four children. She likes cozy fires, warm cookies, and soft blankets. When she was a little girl, she asked her dad if she could go with him to the church prayer meeting, and she's been going ever since. While her children are at school, she writes books for adults and kids, and she serves as the managing editor for The Gospel Coalition.