A powerful revival swept through the University of Kentucky’s Rupp Arena as 8,000 students came together for worship, with 2,000 of them giving their lives to Jesus Christ.
We’re seeing revival after revival sweep through college campuses across America. In a time when many young people are struggling with mental health issues and addictions, God is working in their lives through these powerful events. Students are finding hope, healing and a real relationship with Jesus that changes everything.
The Unite US team, with leaders Tonya Prewett and Jennie Allen from IF:Gathering, brought their 12th campus event to Kentucky. “This is this is just all a miracle,” Allen said.
“We are on our 12th University, next week we will go to 13th at Ohio State, and in every single case it has been miraculous.”
The local students spent months preparing for this movement. They walked and prayed around their campus for 42 miles in one day. “Our local student team organized weekly prayer gatherings and walked up to 42 miles one Saturday as they prayed over their campus,” Prewett told CBN News. She called these walks their “Jericho Marches,” saying “we saw walls come down last night.”
The night started with Prewett talking about finding purpose, then Allen spoke about turning away from sin. Students turned to their friends sitting nearby to pray together. “You can just see all over the stadium, huddles of kids, wiping tears, nodding, praying, holding each other. I mean, it’s so precious and brave,” Allen shared.
Then something powerful happened – all the students stood up and shouted out the things they wanted to leave behind. Their voices filled the whole arena.
After the main event, students lined up outside in 30 degree weather to get baptized. Four people stayed in the water for an hour and a half, baptizing student after student. Every time someone came up from the water, the crowd cheered for their new life in Jesus.
One student’s story really stood out. His friend had been praying for him for a long time. “I just I am tired of living the way I was living and I want something to change,” the student said. “I’ve been going this way and now I need to go this way.” His friend watched in joy as his prayers got answered right there.
Dr. Sarah Baldwin from Asbury University, who saw the big revival at her school in 2023, said students are finding out who God made them to be. “The students are recognizing that like, ‘no, this is what I was designed for; this is the purpose that was set aside for me, this is the life… this is the love that Jesus has for me,'” she explained.
Unite US first started at Auburn University last September. There, 5,000 students came to worship, and 200 got baptized in a nearby lake. Since then, more than 70,000 college students across America have joined their events. They’re heading to Ohio State next.
This isn’t just happening in America. Allen says she sees the same thing around the world. “Nobody’s talking to each other… There’s this ripple effect right now that’s happening all over the world. It is too much to take in… I would call it near Awakening,” she said.
When she sees similar revivals happening in places like Germany and London without any planning between them, she believes “this has to be a moment in time.”
Through these revivals, we are witnessing the redeeming power of God. Like a sword, the Gospel is piercing through the darkness and bringing light to this generation.
As Allen said, “We’re not pulling teeth. We’re not doing magic tricks. We are just there responding to the gospel. They want God. And it is so beautiful.”
Let’s thank God for moving in such a powerful way among young people today. We can join in prayer for these students as they live out their new faith on campus and share Jesus with their friends.
God is writing a new story through this generation, and we get to watch it unfold.
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