In February 2023, the world watched as college students at Asbury University cried out to God, repenting and worshiping without ceasing—an event that became known as the Asbury Outpouring. For 16 days, day and night, the presence of Jesus was encountered by people traveling from as far away as Japan and Russia. The Holy Spirit transformed lives, and hope was renewed..

But Asbury was not an isolated event. Going back to the 1960s, the Jesus Movement radically transformed young people on the West Coast. Since the late 1980s, thousands of students at Texas A&M have found freedom at a Bible study called Breakaway. Throughout the 2000s, countless young adults responded to God's calling through organizations like YWAM, Cru, and the Navigators, as well as local churches. In the 2020s, hundreds of thousands of young men and women have gathered in arenas and stadiums through events like THE SEND and Passion Conferences. Today, a new generation is finding Jesus at gatherings like UNITE.

"I mentor a lot of college students," shares Tonya Prewett. "I can look at their social media, and it looks amazing. Then, I can spend about 10 minutes with them and find out everything's not as amazing as the pictures look. A lot of times, behind their pictures, there's a lot of pain nobody knows about."

"When I was mentoring these students, I was hearing stories of girls who were saying, 'I spend a lot of time in my closet, isolated. I pull my hair out, I claw myself until I bleed, and I beg God not to let me live another day because I can't cope with life. It's too hard.' Those are the stories I was hearing that created something in me that said, 'I will not sit back and watch this happen.'"

“We started on Auburn's campus, just praying. I had five students gather in our football stadium for the first day of prayer. In a few weeks, it turned into about 200 students praying together, just praying for God to do something on this campus, to bring back hope to a hopeless generation.”

“I think the message that we take to college campuses is truth and hope,” Prewett says. “The hunger you see at this campus, the hunger you saw at Asbury, is only going to continue. This movement is going to keep moving across our nation. It's going to unite our nation. It's happening. We are witnessing students walk into salvation, freedom, connection like never before, and there is a hunger that is being fulfilled where a lot of these students who come to these events are not in church, have never been a part of a church, not in the student ministry, but they will come to an event in their basketball arena. Thousands and thousands of students are coming forward."

Will Garinger adds, “I feel like the church, college students, we've all been asleep for so long, almost kind of spiritually dead, and God is slowly saying, ‘Hey, wake up.’ Now, you see thousands of kids coming to Christ. You see ministries booming. You see churches full on campuses. You see Ohio State football holding 2,000 person revivals. You see all these local ministries, and campuses, and arenas being filled across the country, so a lot is happening.”

Grace Denning adds, “Witnessing firsthand, literally every single day, every week, every time we go to a college campus, witnessing just the way the Lord is literally raising up His people in this generation to be the leaders that are going to lead our nation and lead our country."

“As the students go, so goes the nation,” says Prewett. “I believe that what heaven starts, hell can't stop, and it's going to keep going. It's only going to grow, it's only going to get bigger and better, and there's hope. But I believe that every single person who knows Jesus Christ has to rise up, and do their part, and make an impact on this generation and in all generations. To me, revival is lost people coming to know Jesus, going all in, sharing that message, and witnessing that movement ripple across a city, a state, a nation. That's what we're seeing."