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By India McCarty
Hallow co-founder Bryan Enriquez recently shared the app’s origin story, and his hopes for its future.
“Hallow began out of a need in our own lives,” he said in an interview with Movieguide®.
Enriquez met the other founders of Hallow, including CEO Alex Brett Jones, while they were all attending Notre Dame.
“The Lord decided to plant the seeds that later gave fruit, which was Hallow,” he shared.
After graduation, Jones began struggling spiritually and started meditating, with the help of apps, but, Enriquez explained, soon discovered “finding inner peace might not necessarily lead to, you know, a spiritual deepening in the Christian context” (video via YouTube).
Jones and Enriquez started having religious discussions, and the pair realized that there were many other people just like them, who wanted to deepen their relationship with God but weren’t sure where to begin.
“I always considered myself a Christian, but I didn’t have a deep understanding of the power of spiritual prayer and meditation,” Enriquez wrote in a personal essay for the Yale School of Management. “I immediately saw the power that could come from making the faith based content more accessible in the digital age. From that conversation we were determined to start an app to help people along in their spiritual journeys.”
Now, Enriquez told Movieguide®, “God’s really blessed us. We’re getting close to a billion prayers in the app.”
“We’ve just been really blessed with all these different folks,” he added, referring to the high-profile names who have partnered with the app, from actors Mark Wahlberg, Chris Pratt and Jonathan Roumie to singer Gwen Stefani to biblical scholar Jeff Cavens.”
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“Ultimately what we want is people to have an experience with the person of Jesus Christ, to then be drawn back into church…then recognizing that prayer is this really beautiful expression and deepening of this relationship you have with God,” he said.
Enriquez concluded, “It’s this tremendous message of hope that I want to try to spread. It doesn’t matter where you are, you know, in your spiritual journey. I would say, ‘Turn your heart to Jesus, and you’ll be amazed to see what happens next.’”
In an interview with Fox News, Jones agreed, saying, “We want to build something that’s a tool for Christians of any background.”
“If I spent the rest of my life and all of my retirement savings, and God was able to [work] through the app, it will have been infinitely worth it,” he finished.
Hallow is arguably the biggest faith-based app in the world, and Enriquez and Jones have no plans to slow down, continuing to use it to spread God’s word.
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