God is orchestrating much this semester with colleges across America, and we want you to be a part of it. As you know, the Collegiate Day of Prayer is a joint effort between ministries and churches across America. To that end we have no specific organization to promote but we want you to see how…

From the First and Second Great Awakenings in the 1700 and 1800’s to the Student Volunteer Missions and Jesus Movements of the 1900’s, every great move of God has been preceded by a great movement of prayer. And historically, university campuses have been the catalytic seedbed for such seasons of revival. As Jonathan Edwards, father...

The expressed intention of the Collegiate Day of Prayer has been and continues to be to unite believers in prayer for spiritual awakening. Again this year, collegiate ministries of every shape and size prayed together for God to manifest His presence on their campuses. The older generation, involved in a wide range of churches and…

3 Ways to Measure the Growth & Success of a United Prayer Gathering No one wants their prayer meeting to be awkward, unorganized, or poorly attended. Every prayer leader would prefer to host a well-organized and popular prayer event. However, effectual prayer and organizational efficiency are not always the same thing. The biggest and most…

My grandmother was a prayer warrior. Every Thursday morning her senior friends gathered on her enclosed porch—the one where all the old family recliners found their final resting place. The street was lined with cars as godly women came to study God’s Word and pray. I could always ask my grandmother to pray for me,…

200 years ago the original Collegiate Day of Prayer was warmly embraced and promoted by the American church. Almost every evangelical denomination and university was praying for a mighty visitation of God to awaken and transform approximately 200 of America’s colleges at the close of the 19th Century. Today we have over 3,200 four year…

The Collegiate Day of Prayer is over. Now what? What do we do until year? Why is it only once a year? Do we need to do it again? Should we do it more often?   One day events like the Collegiate Day of Prayer will always make people ask questions like these and our…

Check out what Campus Renewal Ministries at the University of Texas at Austin is doing for this year’s Collegiate Day of Prayer.

What do we mean by a “spiritual awakening” in a university?  It means seeing a work of the Spirit, which not only promotes a more abundant spiritual life among Christian students, but also results in leading other students to accept and confess Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord.  A state of spiritual life…

The missionary church is a praying church.  The history of missions is a history of prayer.  Everything that is vital to the success of the world’s evangelization hinges on prayer.  Are thousands of missionaries and tens of thousands of native workers needed? “Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He send forth laborers…