I want to share with you my vision about this 24-7prayer. When I prayed
for it this morning, God let me realized that the whole work is all
about Holy spirit. He inspired us to pray, also let us to meet a
christian teacher, after we share the vision with him, he open so many
doors for us. We got a place to pray day and night…

Dear, dear friends:

Forgive my lack of citations: this is cobbled together on the fly. An folder I created and entitled “REVIVAL” has now grown to 67 emails in three days. And there is far too much going on that has not been writen down…

I can hardly walk from having spent so much time standing still on the center of the green. Daily prayer started today at 7:30am, 3pm, and will happen again at 10pm. Eight were there this morning, about twenty-two this afternoon, both times of prayer extended past 1.5 hrs (I’ve had to leave early from both — just now to write this blitz, so I trust its worthwhile!).

The Holy Spirit is moving with power at Dartmouth College. Last Thursday, seven of us found ourselves in Food Court surrounded by unoccupied tables. As we talked, excitment visibly descended on the group and the conviction that an outpouring of the Spirit on Campus was imminent. We represented Agape, CI, and Navigators. We spent a lengthy time in prayer. “During that time, one of the girls started speaking in tongues, catching her totally offguard. She spent the rest of the evening with the Holy Spirit as she was led to call a woman in her church that she has talked to just once before [and to boldly ask to speak at their service, which went fantastically well, exciting the Church to prayer and faith], and call her family for reconciliation. The rest of us also had fantastic nights, including lots of opportunities to present the Gospel. Friday for lunch, we met again to tell our stories of Thursday evening and had some more fruitful prayer time… Each of us had an overwhelming sense that the Spirit was saying this is the year. This is the year of revival at Dartmouth. No longer was it “soon” or “in the process”, but there was a definite sense of this is when the Spirit will claim Dartmouth for His own once again. And it’s not just the students, but the faculty as well.” (and not just students and profs, but also DDS workers, janitors, townies, administration, admissions — and DHMC nurses!) Read more »

During the Spring of 2006, nearly 70 different colleges and universities throughout the USA participated in an unbroken semester of 24-7 prayer! From Wellesley College in Boston and Lubbock Christian University in Texas, to the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and the University of California-Berkeley, students nationwide stepped into an experience with God in prayer that accumulated into something unprecedented in our history!

In July of 2006, 75 university student leaders gathered together at the University of California-San Diego for a conference, called the CTN (Campus Transformation Network) Gathering. Leaders from Campus Church Network, Campus Renewal Ministries, and 24-7 Prayer USA facilitated this gathering, and God met us in a unique and powerful way � specifically about this coming year.

The Lord spoke through a Dr. Seuss book called Horton Hears a Who concerning His desire for a Year of Partnered Prayer on campuses in the United States, starting this Fall semester. In the book, Horton � an elephant � convinces a miniscule town of people called the Whos that they all must join their voices together and cry out, so that they be saved from destruction by some devilish kangaroos. The Whos come together and they let out their cries, but it’s not quite enough…they realize that there must be a Who who’s shirking his duty, who’s not joining his voice in with the others! They find a silent, small, seemingly insignificant Who, they exhort him to come to the aid of his country, and he lets out a “YOPP!” that puts it all over the edge! The Whos are saved, and each Who finds that no matter how small he is, he counts.

To the global 24-7 Prayer movement, a YOPP is a Year of Partnered Prayer. In a YOPP, different communities are linked together, each doing a short season of 24-7 prayer, to cover the entire year in prayer. At this CTN Gathering, God clearly called university students across this nation to join our voices together, in the collective form of a Year of Partnered Prayer on campuses! From August 2006 through May 2007, you are invited to bring students at your school into this cooperative cry out to God.

From our positions as sons and daughters of the Father, God is commissioning us to keep watch over our universities, to call for the Kingdom of God to be advanced and for revival to come � and He’s highlighting 24-7 prayer as a first step in this. Through us, and starting in the place of intensified prayer, God wants to re-claim and redeem every university in the USA.

Do you believe that God will awaken the hearts of university students, faculty, and staff across this nation to a revelation of Jesus Christ? Do you believe that God’s will is to revive and transform every campus in the U.S.? Step into these questions in prayer, and see what He says to you. We believe the answer is a resounding “YES!”, and that He wants to use little people like us in great and mighty ways to do just that! Let’s start in prayer. Join the YOPP!

Check out www.24-7prayer.com to read about this global movement of 24-7 prayer, and visit www.campustransformation.com to sign your school up to participate in the YOPP! For more information on the question of “How?”, read the following document: “YOPP: How do we get involved?”

In order to account for what God’s been doing at UCLA, and confirm the testimony already given by Jaeson, I prepared a report of what God’s been doing at UCLA.

Here it is. It can also be found on my xanga, www.xanga.com/samxk. God bless!

God is Moving at UCLA.

Before I write or say anything else, I want to first say that God is amazing, and that to Him alone belongs all the glory, honor, and praise. I don’t want to write a report about what any person has been doing at UCLA, because we are incapable to do anything by ourselves. It is God that has been moving, not man. It is God that grows the seeds that have been planted, not us. We are humbled, and truly blessed to be able to partake in this ministry with Him. And the cry of our hearts has been and always will be, not to us, but to Him, and always to Him be all the glory.

I emphasize this to make it clear that neither I, nor any other worker at UCLA has the desire to take any of the glory for ourselves. In fact, I simply want to write this account in order to encourage the Church, and to confirm the testimony that Jaeson wrote earlier this year on his blog. My name is Samuel Kim, I have been working alongside Jaeson from the beginning of this year, and I want to share with you all what God has been doing at UCLA.

Last Year at UCLA till first quarter at UCLA

It all begins with prayer. If it were not for the years and years of prayer that have soaked the campus of UCLA from past generations, nothing that happened this year could have been possible. Furthermore, if this year we had not been constantly challenging, encouraging, and exhorting each other to pray for the lost, all our efforts would have been futile. This is because it starts with God, happens with God, and ends with God.

With that being said, the story of this year’s revival truly begins last year. A couple of the brothers from UCLA, Josh Yang and Caleb Lin, developed a heart and vision for revival at UCLA. They began mobilizing our campus leaders and ministries to pray, and began a Wednesday night prayer meeting, coordinated a 30 Hour time of fasting and prayer, and also started a house church at UCLA called Passion Church. This campus church has contributed greatly to the intercession and prayers that have soaked the campus this year. Read more »

So after the amazing miracles God did on campus this week, we weren’t sure WHAT was going to happen next…This past wednesday our prayer team at csulb invited every believer on campus to join us in outdoor worship and prayer from 12-1pm. We weren’t sure whether 10 or 100 people would show up, but more important than numbers, we
just really felt like God was calling us to Unite in worship before this semester is over…..
I got out of class early and went over to go pray over the worship spot, outside the bookstore…and four students were already there praying! We prayer walked the area, and already felt this great sense of Peace around us.

Revolutionary ‘students of peace’

Multiplying churches on campus

It might be a stretch to refer to fraternities, sororities, student clubs, and a host of other interest and affinity groups to be found on the campuses of American colleges and universities as “unreached people groups.” But don’t try and convince Jaeson Ma of that. For Jaeson is seeing church-planting movements spread among these virtually pagan entities on a growing number of campuses.

The hidden nature of these student clusters began to dawn on him six years ago when he was suddenly confronted with the reality that the university he was attending was not only a greatly neglected mission field, but that it harbored dozens of unreached people groups within its student body.

Acting on his discovery, Jaeson has found that seemingly disinterested students are hungry for the gospel and can be effectively evangelized and even gathered into churches! The result is that a church-planting movement is now flourishing at his university and is spreading to others as well.

Only two believed in Jesus

The insight began to strike him while sitting in an introductory lecture on philosophy at San Jose State University in California. Suddenly, the professor asked, “Who believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God?” Jaeson and one of his friends were the only two who raised their hands in a class of 100 students.

Jaeson could not believe that most of his fellow students had no idea what Jesus offered them. He therefore started prayer walking around the university, asking God to do something so that the 28,000 students would come to know him. God opened doors for Jaeson; the university officials were sympathetic to his aims and granted him permission to hold evangelistic rallies. Hundreds were saved.

Churches with nothing to offer

Jaeson soon realized, though, that very few managed to find a place in a church after becoming a believer. “To be completely honest,” says Jaeson, “most of the churches around the university had nothing to offer students. Nobody had any idea what to do with them. Some students met for Bible study, but when they left the university, the problem remained: They could not find a place in a traditional church.

“I found the same problem at other universities,” he says. “Most students see church as boring, irrelevant and hypocritical, despite the fact that they themselves are empty, hurt, and suffering. Instead of Jesus, they seek true love in drugs, parties, sex, and good grades. Many became depressive; some were close to suicide.”

As he prayed, Jaeson discovered that it is much better to bring church to the students, not the other way around. After much research, including studying China’s underground house church movement, he became convinced that relationship-oriented “simple church” was best suited for reaching students.

Studies by the Barna Research Group, Jaeson found out, showed that 18- to 25-year-olds are the group least likely to attend a church. The majority of students who attended church during school years no longer did so at the end of their studies.

Jaeson concluded that “we desperately need completely new churches for the new generation, because the traditional form of church simply does not work in America. Post-modern youths know no standards, believe basically anything, and want to experience God for themselves. They will not sit in pews listening to someone preach forever. They want to put their faith into practice.”

Inspired by 18-year-old Chinese girls

He read about 18-year-old Chinese girls who had planted over 100 house churches in one year, although they had only been Christians a few years themselves. The churches which he investigated in China were networks of small fellowships of 15-30 members which met in houses and small shops.

“If an 18-year-old Chinese girl can plant 100 churches each year in China, why shouldn’t a student plant a few at university?” Jaeson asked himself. He realized that, similar to the biblical concept of a “house of peace” or a “man or woman of peace,” a missionary can win “a student of peace” for Christ. Such a convert will in turn win his circle of friends. Soon, a small church is formed.

One single church, he began to realize, would never be able to reach the very diverse student community. He therefore started viewing every student group as an unreached community, with the aim of starting a church among them.

These new churches with 15-20 members meet anywhere—in dormitories, apartments, student union rooms, classrooms, or the coffee shop across the street. As they grow, they do not look for somewhere larger to meet, but divide and therefore multiply.

‘Start a revolution!’

As the movement began to spread, Jaeson established Campus Church Networks (CCN) in 1998 and began sending missionaries to other universities to do the same. His motto became, “Start a revolution, start a campus church!” On CCN’s website, he writes, “Every revolution begins with a revolutionary. Are you prepared to be one? Is there already a Campus Church at your University? If not, you should start one….”

Bottom line for me is that vision for church multiplication and saturation church planting is proliferating to smaller and smaller units of society. In the process, the prophecy of Habakkuk 2:14 that “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord” is being progressively achieved.

Material for this column of GCU was adapted from an article in the December 24, 2005, issue of Joel News International. E-mail contact: joel-news-international@xc.org.

GOD IS MOVING..(Cal State Long Beach)

Last Week on beginning from Tuesday God began to move. A friend in one of
my classes came up to myself and my roommate as we were eating at Great
Steak in school. God lead me to pray for him since i first saw him. He was
on drugs and high, but I know Holy spirit fell. He was amazed at the fact
that God lead me to pray for him. He began to share his struggles and his
sins and I just talked with him abuot God and he became completely SOBER!

God is SHAKING UCLA!!!!!!!!!

At UCLA God is moving unprecedented like I have never seen. Today I open air preached again with three other passion church brothers holding the 7 foot Cross in the middle of campus. This time the other largest Asian Fraternity had half a dozen members convert on the spot and another dozen gave their lives to Jesus in the middle of campus with nearly 100 students gathering to listen to the Gospel.

Last week my HK home group invited me to their end-of-quarter hot-pot
party. As some of you may remember, the group started in last year Fall
and God had done a lot of amazing things in merely 7 weeks.

So fall quarter ends with 12 ppl in the group. Last week when I went to
the party, my sis in the group said they had grown form last quarter 12
to like 30. But since it’s like 9th week and ppl have to study, only
15-20 ppl showed up, half of them I haven’t even met, most of them
non-believers.

Guess what?

today we were having public worship/prayer in the middle
of CSULB and God doubled our numbers from last week.
Our circle just kept getting bigger and bigger, we had to
keep spreading out in the field…people kept walking up,
seeing what was happening…some stayed for a song or two
and left..some stayed and prayed w/us.
But I could feel God’s presence SO THICK..it was
amazing. He kept bringing me to my knees..i couldnt even
stand, His presence was so strong.