10,000 Students Packed Texas A&M Arena-- Hundreds were born again.
The good news is that "Jesus Is Changing Lives."
Don't believe those who say this is a lost generation.
Prayer and praise gatherings like the one at Texas A&M are happening all over the country.
Be informed, not misled.
It's for real.
Ministry leaders with Unite Us are thanking God after a record number of young people joined together to worship and praise Jesus at its last event of the year.
Last night HUNDREDS rushed the altar to give their lives to JESUS at
— Pastor Travis Johnson (@TravisJohnson73) October 30, 2024
TEXAS A&M.
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These events will continue after the New Year.
Unite US, a college campus evangelistic movement marked by salvations, worship, and water baptisms, closed its fall semester tour at Texas A&M University in October.
More than 10,000 students packed into Reed Arena, and hundreds rushed to the altar to give their lives to Jesus Christ, the ministry reports.
"We are absolutely blown away by how God moved tonight in Reed Arena as over 10,000 college students gathered to lift the name of Jesus," reads a post by Unite US.
They added, "We will never take for granted the way God has shown up – night after night, university after university."
Unite US is a series of massive worship events making waves on college campuses across the country. The sole focus is to "lift the name of Jesus."
The organization traces its origins to an event that kicked off at Auburn University's Neville Arena in September 2023. Five thousand students showed up to worship Jesus, and 200 were spontaneously baptized in a nearby lake.
"When God gave me the vision for Unite Auburn I could have never imagined what was coming," Unite US founder and evangelist Tonya Prewett says.
"I remember standing at [the] baptisms after the Auburn event in the middle of thousands of students just praising God and thinking how can this stop? And it hasn't. He keeps doing it. Again and again," she says.
A student posted, "Gen Z is leading us in the greatest revival we have ever seen!! God moved at Texas A&M."
This last fall, the movement traveled to pockets of college campuses in the Southeast, including the University of Florida, Mississippi State University, the University of Arkansas, and the University of South Carolina.
"We've seen over 70,000 students gather on 11 campuses representing 400 universities. We've seen around 5,000 saved and close to 2,000 baptized," Prewett said. "It's truly indescribable."
Although many college students made decisions to follow Christ and some even made a public declaration of faith through water baptism, the work of ministry is far from over.
"All of these students get connected to local churches and pastors for discipleship," shared Unite US speaker, Pastor Jonathan Pokluda. "It is beautiful!"
Unite US organizers are seeing that their ministry is having a longstanding impact.
One student, Kaden, shared with United US speaker and founder of IFGathering, Jennie Allen, how attending a previous United US event changed his life.
"I was in the biggest fraternity on campus and fully in the world," Kaden shared. "I loved it. I was high up in it. I was about to be our pledge marshal and I was going to run for president. I was selling drugs. I was doing a lot of drugs. I was living in the world doing what the world tells you to do."
Kaden then told Allen that it was a message she preached at the school last year that changed his life.
"You preached your message and it was on what it means to truly be a Christian. It was the same message you preached tonight," he noted. "I remember like wow. Sins held me down for so long. I feel miserable. I have everything the world has to offer. Yet, I still feel awful. I still feel depressed and I'm anxious and I'm sad."
Kaden says he has given it all to the Lord.
"I said to my friend, 'I'm done. I'm going all in. Like it's me and Jesus," he recalled. "The next day, I dropped out of my fraternity. I dropped out of Tennessee and I've been pursuing Jesus since. Now I'm a ministry major at Southeastern University. And I want to go into missions and college ministry."
"People say there's no hope for Gen Z. But after tonight, we have more hope than ever that this generation will lead us in the greatest revival our nation has ever seen," the ministry writes. "This may be our last Unite of the semester, but we believe it's only the beginning of all God has in store."
These prayer and praise gatherings are happening all over the nation---led by different leaders with the same mission: Lift up Jesus Christ on campuses, in fields, and in other unusual places.
Takeaway
The great London preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon wrote:
"It would be very easy to prove that revivals of religion have usually been accompanied, if not caused, by a considerable amount of preaching out of doors, or in unusual places."
For two thousand years, out-of-door preaching by gifted evangelists resulted in the founding of religious orders, movements, denominations, charity organizations, colleges, and universities.
Examples include:
- Apostle Paul preaching to the Gentiles
- St. Patrick and the Irish missionaries
- Peter Waldo and the Waldensians
- St. Francis and the Franciscans
- St. Dominic and the the Dominicans
- John Wycliffe and the Lollards
- John Knox and the Presbyterians
- George Fox and the Quakers
- John and Charles Wesley and the Methodists
- George Whitefield and innumerable revival preachers
- William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army, and many others.
Charles Spurgeon added:
"Open-air preaching ... is the very backbone of the movement to win the non-churched."
Glorious were those great gatherings in the fields and commons which lasted throughout the long period in which Wesley and Whitefield blessed our nation.
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Hopeful. Be Blessed.