Get ready for a whole lot of praying.

Northern Manitoba, long a hot spot for religious revivals and gospel jamborees, featuring combinations of praise, testimonies, prayer, song, altar calls, and Holy Ghost laughter, depending which ministry is meeting, will host two such events over the next month.

Starting tonight at 7 p.m. at St. Lawrence Hall in Thompson, Angelwings Ministries 11th Annual Holy Ghost Revival Meetings get under way. There will also be services Saturday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 28 at 7 p.m.

Among the guest speakers and musicians expected in town for the Northern Explosion 2010 revival are Len Laboucon, of Whitefish, Alta., John T. Wood of Wasagamack, Man. and Trout Lake Alta., Eddy Kakepetum from Sandy Lake Ont., Joe Campbell from Winnipeg, Eli Hill, and Tony and Lorraine Trout from Gods Lake.

On March 27 and 28, Outreach Central Church will be hosting the Second Annual Ma-mow-ma-me-chi-ma-tak Gospel Jamboree at Cross Lake Band Hall nightly at 7 p.m.

Guest speakers and musicians include Curtis and Ardelle Choken from Peguis, evangelist Ernie Stevenson, also from Peguis, Melanie Choken and youth pastor Stephen Flett.

Thompson Bible Chapel on Cree Road last month hosted John McGregor, the executive director of the Canadian Revival Fellowship (CRF) in Regina, who is from Northern Ireland originally and in his youth was an active member of a Protestant paramilitary group in Belfast. He put his guns away after his Christian conversion and in 1976 immigrated to Canada.