Sunday night we prayer-walked some of the key spiritual power points in Marlboro. Along with the usual (town hall, high school), we visited 2 sites most people don't even know exist, but which set the tone for the town. First, we prayed over the Collier School area, where Peter Collier (a wealthy publisher from New York) settled. It is a beautiful spot, on the side of a huge hill. His parties set the tone for western Monmouth becoming an affluent town, with many addicted to luxury. Today his estate is a Catholic school for special needs kids, and convent.
Later we visited the Old Scots cemetery on Gordon's Corner Road (see pictures above). This was the site of the first church in our area, which was settled by true Christians fleeing religious persecution in England. They built a small church early to thank God for the miraculous story of their deliverance (ask me it some time). Some of them are still buried there. Later the church moved to Manalapan and became Old Tennent church, which was a center of revival in the Great Awakening of the early 1700's.
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