Christian prayer and meditation app Hallow has just celebrated the milestone achievement of facilitating over 100 million prayers.
According to Fox News, Hallow – created by 29-year-old Alex Jones – has been downloaded over 3.75 million times from users in around 150 countries since it launched in 2018.
In a phone interview with Fox News Digital, Jones shared that he was inspired to create Hallow after experiencing the benefits of meditation using secular apps Headspace and Calm.
"I thought they were super helpful tools to learn meditation within the comfort of your own home," Jones told the outlet.
He also noted that despite having a strained relationship with Christianity, he would always think about God and Christianity when he meditated.
"Every time I would meditate, my mind would feel pulled toward something Christian. An image of the cross, or the Trinity, or the Holy Spirit, which I thought was very strange," Jones shared.
This prompted Jones to reach out to ministers and friends and family of faith to discuss the possibility of meditation being tied to Christianity.
"I would ask, 'Hey, is there any way there's some intersection here between this whole faith thing and this meditation thing?'" he said.
"They all laughed at me and said, 'Yeah, we've been doing it for about 2,000 years. You've probably heard about it. It's called prayer,'" Jones added.
It was then that Jones, leaning on his Catholic faith, decided to code and create the Catholic meditation and prayer app.
He chose the name Hallow – which means "to make holy" – after meditatively reading the Lord's Prayer.
"Our Father, hallowed be thy name," Jones said. "It just changed my life — it brought me to tears," he added.- Christian Headlines
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