A Christian university in Ohio is seeing spontaneous prayer and worship among its student body days after a revival began at Asbury University in Kentucky.
Cedarville University President Thomas White described what was happening as “a special outpouring and sensing of the presence of the Lord,” adding that it “will be left to the historians” to determine if it was truly a revival.
According to White, the outpouring began during Cedarville’s Monday morning chapel service on campus, as students were going through the Old Testament passage of Psalm 86.
White said, “So, we took a moment to pray and to sing a song. And during the song, without an altar call or invitation of any kind, we had some students who began to come forward and pray. Before the chapel was over, there was an altar full of students just praying and some were weeping, others were hugging one another.”
White explained that “chapel just continued” after its regular stop time around 10:45 a.m. with most students staying into next class period for prayer and worship, with some students returning to the chapel after class.
The spontaneous worship at Cedarville started days after a similar occurrence took place at Asbury University during its chapel service, in which students stayed after the official end of worship to continue in praise and prayer.
Rob Fultz, campus pastor at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, said revival started breaking out at his school Monday as well, with around eight students starting a prayer that ignited a movement — and it hasn’t slowed down.