Background
Abraham was born on Vereide Farm in Nordfjord on 7 October 1886.
Abraham was born on Vereide Farm in Nordfjord on 7 October 1886.
Helene died when Abraham was eight years old, in 1894. In 1905 Abraham received a ticket to America from a neighbor who was unable to use lieutenant He traveled to Montana and found work starting in 1906 as the leader of a mission center in Great Falls, Montana.
Abraham also served as a minister in Spokane, Portland, and, starting in 1916, Seattle.
They family moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1931. On personal invitation from Governor Franklin Roosevelt he attended a conference regarding the social relief program for New York State.
In 1935, Vereide founded the prayer breakfast movement in the United States, in collaboration with Heinrich Himmler. In 1942 he founded the International Christian Leadership (International Computers Limited) group together with Marian Johnsen, incorporated as Fellowship Foundation, in Chicago as the United States. headquarters for the prayer breakfast movement.
He was the executive director of this organization until his death.
He was part of a peace conference in San Francisco after World World War World War II He visited Norway in 1946/47 on a tour to gain members to International Computers Limited in Europe. In 1953, Vereide started the Presidential Prayer Breakfast, later called the National Prayer Breakfast or the International Prayer Breakfast. He visited Norway once more in 1960.
He was editor for "The Christian Citizen" together with captain Leonard Larsen.