We recently sent out a message to students who are contending for the fullness of God's presence in our generation, asking them to share how God is showing up on their campuses.  We also asked students to share what God has been stirring in their hearts for this coming semester and the dreams He is giving them for their fellow students.  What exciting responses we received!!  See what just a few of them have to say by reading more...

Wow! Things here in Georgia have already picked up full swing. We are in a week of prayer in our prayer room that is across from campus. On the kickoff night we have the most diverse group of students ever, from many backgrounds and ministries. One thing that has happened on the campus that I have had no part of except speculation is that the Saturday night before classes started about 350 students gathered, from all ministries, to pray for the school year and campus and worship until 1:00am.....led by no one, just gathered with word of mouth, and someone brought a guitar so we worshiped too!!!

Here in Georgia I have been hearing of leaders on their campuses really excited about gearing up...we are going to do a conference call soon. One exciting thing has been that the Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Atlanta are really getting geared up and excited about 24-7 prayer on their campuses, and they are initiating things as Ii write. Some of them came up here Sunday night for our first night of prayer in the prayer room!!

I just want to see Jesus lifted higher than any other name here in Athens, on this campus, and I long for this army that God is raising up to walk humbly confident in the purpses God has for them AT THIS VERY TIME!

Jesus is worthy!!

-Dana Hernandez, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia


Xavier began this week.  Tomorrow we are having "Rock the Greenspace," which will be an upbeat concert type praise time with the Lord to introduce the body of Christ on campus and have a little fun... and afterwards we are going to have a 30 minute prayer relay to try and blanket the whole campus with truth praise and prayer for this fall 2008 semester. It should be fun!  God gets excited about back to school, so this will not be a solemn assembly but a race to lift up prayers to our Father in heaven that we believe is listening all the time.

-Jen Wickline, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio 


In my first weeks back at Purdue University, I've experienced people becoming "God Chasers" who want to experience the very presence of God himself. We are attempting to continue a unification of the different Christian organizations into focusing on Jesus. We are continuing to pray for the river of life to flow on campus and for God to break out like a wild fire.  God bless!

- Rob Kern, Purdue University, Illinois
 

Last year I struggled, as so many of us do, with the loneliness that comes from being the only one on your campus that is pressing into the heart of God in the areas of prayer and fasting! Especially since I go to a very small Christian liberal arts school! Jesus is more than enough to sustain me, but still my prayer this summer was that the Father would gather others to my campus with a similar heart to pursue God in corporate prayer and fasting. HE has been mighty to answer gathering students who have been in schools of ministry at houses of prayer across the country to be here at Patten University this fall! And in only one week of classes I have connected with many others and cannot wait for our first Friday night rumble on campus this week! I cannot even anticipate how God will move and touch this campus in the coming year. Living in downtown Oakland, CA God could use this campus to begin to bring change in this city and the Bay area! God is mighty to answer the desires of our hearts with the desires of His!

- Andrea Ames, Patten University, Oakland, California
 

So I was sitting in our 55 hour prayer tent in the student center, we're praying from 2pm Sunday until the beginning of the first FCA of the year, and I was just praying that I could help someone that walked by. About 20 minutes later, Mike came hobbling over to us and said "This is going to sound like a really odd prayer request, but does one of you know how to make the computer in the lounge over there print to a printer here? I just got surgery on my ACL that was torn 4 weeks ago and walking kinda hurts right now."  So I was able to help him and I located the printer in the student center on the network and hooked it up for him so that he could print.  It was the answering of two separate prayers together with one simple act.

-Martin Dria, Ashland University, Ashland, OH