Jesus Movement Part 2?

God is intervening and stirring a desire to know him in the hearts of people all over the nation .  From the Super Bowl commercials that crossed the TV’s of most homes in America with the message, “He Gets Us,” to thousands of students praying and worshipping for 2 weeks straight at Asbury University in Wilmore, KY.  To theaters across the country screening the movie “Jesus Revolution” reminding the world of The Jesus Movement in the late 60’s and early 70’s in Southern California that was started amongst the hippies and spread throughout the rest of America and Europe. It seems as though we are in very similar times 50 years later.

I was recently listening to a podcast, where the speaker referenced the founder of Youth with a Mission (YWAM) Loren Cunningham’s vision of young people that compelled him to start what is now the largest missions organization in the world.  In 1956, Loren had a vision, He says,

“Suddenly I was looking at a map of the world, only the map was alive and moving! I could see all the continents, and waves were crashing onto their shores. Each wave went onto a continent, then receded, then came up further until it covered the continent completely. The waves become young people – kids my age and even younger – covering all the continents of the globe. They were talking to people on street corners and outside bars. They were going from house to house and preaching the Gospel”

4 years after Loren had this vision, Loren started Youth with a Mission (YWAM) and in last 70 years, millions of young people were trained as missionaries, fulfilling the vision Loren had of the waves.

What is profound, is that when Loren saw these waves of young people crashing onto the shores of each continent, and eventually covering the continent completely, he had no doubt that God would raise up a missional generation that would go to every continent and fulfill his vision.  Even though at that time, there was little-to-no evidence of that many missionaries even existed.  Years later, The Jesus Movement swept across America and Europe, thousands were saved and some sent to the mission field.   Even that wasn’t the fulfillment of Loren’s vision.

I believe that we are midst of seeing Loren’s vision FULLY fulfilled! The studies are beginning to show that Generation Z christians are the most missional and evangelistic generation to ever walk the earth.  Those that are following Jesus in Generation Z are wholeheartedly following him and are gripped with the call to missions, whether that be to reaching their campus, dorm, workplace, or families.

This statistics and what I am seeing with my own eyes, is why I am filled with faith, to the point where I look foolish!  I have seen time and time again that God is putting a burning desire in the hearts of my peers to reach the lost, no matter what the cost.

I see a generation who will fulfill the great commission and who will love like Jesus, do you see it too?

I made this video from my tour to give you just a glimpse into the evidence we have been seeing in New England and across America & Europe! Click below to watch,

You read it correctly, in just 8 weeks we saw:

I had the opportunity to co-lead a team of 11 young adults to the the following universities in New England:

• Eastern University (Pennsylvania)
• Temple University (Pennsylvania)
• WestChester University (Pennsylvania)
• University of Pennsylvania/Drexxel (Pennsylvania)
• Husson University/University of Maine (Maine)
• Colby College (Maine)
• Norwich University (Vermont)
• Boston University (Massachusetts)
• Northeastern University/Berklee College of Music (Massachusetts)
• Babson College (Massachusetts)
• Gordon College (Massachusetts)
• Harvard University (Massachusetts)
• Brown University (Rhode Island)
• University of Rhode Island (Rhode Island)
• Quinnipiac University (Connecticut)
• Central Connecticut State University (Connecticut)
• Southern Connecticut State University (Connecticut)

A few highlight testimonies from the last 8 weeks from across America!

• At Eastern University in Pennsylvania, a girl with a third degree sprain in her ankle completely healed.  She took off her boot unprompted, and began to run around the room with no pain!
• In Philadelphia, at Temple University a girl who was an Orthodox Jew attended our event, and by the prompting of the Holy Spirit the staff that was sharing the message that night felt the need to explain how Jesus fulfilled all the prophecies of the Old Testament.  He took the time in his message to walk through the different scriptures that show that Jesus is the Messiah, which was definitely not in his notes at all! But because of following the prompting of the Holy Spirit, that girl gave her life to Jesus and explained how this was the first time someone took the time explain to her how Jesus was and is the Messiah!
• All throughout the night at Temple University, people would stop in to check out what was happening because they heard the music.  The room that we gathered in was actually a small classroom and it was completely packed, so lots of people squished in.  Some of the guys on my team saw a group of 3 guys that were walking past looking curious and so they stopped them. After, explaining the gospel to them, all 3 of them wanted to give their lives to Jesus!  Without even stepping foot in the room, Jesus interrupted their night and made himself known!
• At Univeristy of Pennsylvania, an ivy league, and is typically very hard to gather Christians.  Being on campus you can feel the major resistance to the gospel, but that night, we saw the room packed out. There wasn’t enough seats for all the people who came so people stood or sat on the ground in order to hear.  The message cut straight to the heart, and not a single person was unaffected by the conviction and passion of Sierra (a full time circuit rider staff member). 4 people responded to the gospel for the first time, this was only the beginning, because after the salvation call, we called the room into repentance for compromise, sin, apathy, unbelief, addiction, and students flooded the front boldly confessing and repenting to our team! You could feel the conviction in the room, as people realized that they were in bondage! After praying with each of these students, many were set free, and the room erupted in joy and dancing!
• At Northern Kentucky Univeristy during evangelism one of our team was praying that the spirit of death would be broken off of a girl, and when she finished praying the girl looks down and starts crying and says “their gone!” She explained that all of her self harm scars were completely healed, not even a mark was left on her skin! Many of the women who were stopped during that time of evangelism forgave and blessed men who raped/assaulted them, and 15 decided to get baptized!!
• At University of California Institute, a girl from a Muslim background came to our event. She said recently she had found a book called “seeking Allah, finding Jesus” and didn’t know why but she felt she needed to read it. She closes the cover as she finishes her book on campus and she sees two people walking towards her. It’s two of our people and with out knowing anything they invite her to our event in an hour saying, “If you’ve ever had questions about Jesus you should come.” She shows up and tells people at registration how she ended up there. A girl who had no idea her background, asked her if she could pray for her, through tears she said “I just want to see God, I just want to know him more”. As they pray that the Holy Spirit would meet her, tears turn into weeping. We don’t know if she gave her life to Jesus that night but what we do know is that by the end of the night she was up front for worship with her hands raised, tears rolling down her cheeks, singing “it’s my joy to lay it down”.
• At UNLV, a girl said she counted the cost and Jesus was worth giving up her same sex attraction. She said she had been struggling since she was 12 years old but didn’t tell anyone. She always wanted Jesus but couldn’t give up this one thing to him. She started college in the fall at vanguard and a group friends told her she could be gay and Christian, so she finally came out and decided to embrace the lifestyle. She said from there all she felt was turmoil and self-hatred, after one semester she had to go back home to Vegas to heal. She hears our event (carry the love) was going to be at UNLV and she had been to one before at her high school so she decides to go.  But said she was determined to hold her ground that she could have both her lifestyle and Jesus. During the message, she began to make rebuttals in her head to God and then the rebuttal would be in answered by what was said in the message, it was as if she was having a direct conversation with God. She said by the end she had no choice but to lay it down. That when she finally gave him everything she knew it was her day of salvation and she felt this joy and freedom come onto her!!

Be encouraged knowing that your faith and prayers are being answered, and that you are effecting thousands of lives! That I believe that it is due time for awakening & revival, and that we very well could be in the midst of it!

Love each one of you, thank you for your love and support! ❤️

Autumn