An evangelical service in Wilmore, Kentucky, has been celebrating non-stop for 10 days in what many of its participants call a “revival.”
The event is held at Asbury University, a small Christian university, and has seen participants fly in from all over the country to take part in its 10th consecutive day of worship.
The movement began after students refused to leave after a chapel service last Wednesday, and since then the services have grown to fill the school chapel with worshipers from across the country. according to christianity today.
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Students raise their hands during a service in the Asbury University chapel, which has seen participants flocking across the country to witness its revival. (Asbury University)
The “Asbury Revival,” as it has been called, echoes a worship event that took place decades ago.
A revival broke out at the same university in 1970 at the Hughes Auditorium. The service began inside the campus chapel before more and more students arrived to worship, pray, and sing over the course of 144 consecutive hours.
In evangelical Protestant Christianity, a “revival” is a sudden and enthusiastic restoration of religious vigor in a larger church, town, or geographic region.
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A packed chapel at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, shows worshipers engaging in what some are calling a spiritual revival. (Asbury University)
Evangelical Christians view revivals as a reconnection with the divine after a period of spiritual dryness.
The Asbury revival is having cascading effects as congregations elsewhere in the United States join in marathon worship.
Students at Samford University in Alabama are now entering their fourth day of continued prayer.
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Students participate in a chapel service at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, which has seen worshipers arrive from across the country. (Asbury University)
The Samford service, held at Reid Chapel, began as usual before classes on Thursday were canceled due to weather.
Churchgoers stayed and continued the meeting until it began to be compared to the Asbury event.
“For more than seven hours, students gathered at Reid [Wednesday] and well into the morning worshiping, praying, sharing testimonies and reading scriptures,” Samford Ministry Training Institute executive director Kevin Blackwell told Alabama Baptist.
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Worshipers raise their hands during a service at the Asbury University Chapel in Wilmore, Kentucky. (Asbury University)
He continued, “It was totally organic and student-run. At 2 a.m. there were 150-200 students in the chapel seeking the face of God and praying for revival on our campus. God is up to something!”
Similar gatherings have been reported at Cedarville University in Ohio and Lee University in Tennessee.
