Posted on 02/06/2006 6:15:01 AM PST by flevit
InterVarsity students at Central College in Pella, Iowa, started praying at the beginning of the spring semester and haven’t stopped. More than 2,400 consecutive hours have been logged by shifts of students in a prayer room set up in the student union.
“It demands sacrifice and perseverance, both of which can all too often be lacking in students,” said campus staff member Jon Hietbrink.
But not only have the 75 students involved deepened their devotional lives, but they have also drawn closer together through the experience. And it’s influenced those around them.
“We coordinated our 24-7 prayer movement with a major outreach event on campus,” he said. “We saw several dozen significant decisions from folks from outside our community.”
Last fall, InterVarsity students in Tampa, Florida, manned a 24-7 prayer room in a local church for 40 days, despite the threat of hurricanes sweeping across the state. At the same time, students in various other chapters around the Southeast Region took turns keeping a separate 24-7 campaign going.
“It is clear that a work was begun in us that is meant to ignite those around us, not only calling each other to a deeper place of intimacy with God, but of obedience to the gospel and the lost who need it,” wrote Florida division director Brian Sanders on the prayer campaign’s Web site.
The InterVarsity chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison initiated a 24-7 prayer campaign for Lent in a campus-area church, and representatives from more than 30 local churches and ministries participated.
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awesome
hm.........christian sharia?
What?
Nice "tradition". Very Catholic I might add.
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