Noun
a service at which people sing hymns and pray together
Source: WordNetWhen about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck. Simon Newcomb
BJU Catalog, 2011–12, 243. Societies meet most Fridays for entertainment and fellowship and also hold a weekly prayer meeting. Source: Internet
In 1768, they found it necessary to start a weekly prayer meeting to meet the needs of an increasing number of parishioners. Source: Internet
After eight years of intractable problem that seemed to defy solution, Rumuola people had finally made peace, courtesy of peace prayer meeting they held last week Saturday May 5, in the community. Source: Internet
Among the dead were a 24-year old Chinese man identified only as Benny, and Anni, a nine-year old girl whom he chopped to death with a machete as she was walking home from a prayer meeting on the fateful night of 15 September. Source: Internet
However, he and others were thrown out of a prayer meeting in a predominantly white Methodist church in Philadelphia, so he and his fellow Christians formed the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) denomination. Source: Internet