“More Straw for Your Bricks,
…More Fuel for Your Fire”
Royce Hall ablaze --- "light the night with build buildings of light!"
Below is a v2.0 re-post from my: "Out of Berkeley" TypePad blog -dc
Dear Campus Leaders @ UCLA & Cal Happy New Year and “heads up” brothers and sisters! For a variety of reasons, I think UCLA, UC Berkeley and every major university in North America will probably be see the most spiritually motivated stream of college students trickling back on your campuses in recent history. During the month of January more than 50,000 fired-up college & university students begin to return to their respective schools after coming off over a dozen life-transforming “Great Co-Missional” conferences held throughout the US & Canada. Keep your ears attuned, your eyes peeled, and your hearts open. Be ready to reeive them and support the variety of beautiful visions Jesus has probably given them.
I heard from a little bird [the first week of January] that UCLA Cru was holding a Vision Night Wednesday night --- So, I felt led to pray for UCLA a bit today. As I did I this extraordinary little book “Fireseeds of Spiritual Awakening” by Dan Hayes came to mind --- http://crupress.campuscrusadeforchrist.com/discipleship/fireseeds-of-spiritual-awakening --- I've seen this book spark and fan more long-lasting fires amongst college students over the past 20 years --- than any other piece of contemporary revival literature in circulation (now in it’s 3rd edition).
I pray that every campus leader at UCLA & Cal will have their eyes opened to the possibility that 2010 will probably not be "business as usual" on American college campuses --- I want to encourage everyone to at least check out the mind-blowing first chapter manifesto of “Fireseeds of Spiritual Awakening” by Dan Hayes - now available free online: http://crupress.campuscrusadeforchrist.com/files/products/fireseeds.pdf Be amazed at the history you are standing in. Consistently over the past 2 1/2 years as I've seen God use this unusual little book inspire an ever widening circle of student leaders to humble themselves and pray --- it offers real hope and solid direction for preparing for revival on your campus --- it shares vital reasons why leaders need to not just pray by themselves, but to invite others to pray with them --- plus good solid Biblical examples of revival and cameo's of young people throughout church history who prayed for the manifest presence of God to fall down on their campus and community, ...and It did!
Lord Jesus, fan into flame the gift of God within all the Jesus movements at UCLA & Cal. Rally small praying bands of disciples to come together this new year to work and pray with You "in one accord". I pray that the UCLA & UC Berkeley campuses will see more Jesus movements break out in 2010 than ever before in their schools history (note: both campuses have a rich spiritual history of revivals that have broken out on campus amongst students, ...and impacted the entire world). Fan into full flame the gift of God within today's Bruins & Bears. Bless and empower the Body of Christ at UCLA & Cal; especially anoint their current and emerging campus leaders to be "fireseeds of spiritual awakening" (and may their adult and young adult staff workers and campus pastors support them in their endeavors).
Lord, send more straw for their bricks and pour more fuel on their fire! Save this generation from being petty and shallow and short-lived. May today's UCLA & Cal students radiate the radical love and power, and wisdom of their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, ...2 Timothy 1:7 to this generation: "power, love, and wisdom", in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, Amen!
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with UCLA & Cal,
-Daniel Curran, LeadCatalyst, GradCru at Cal
...CCC's graduate student ministry at UC Berkeley
Epilogue: My favorite all time book on discipleship is the revolutionary work "Master Plan of Evangleism" by Robert Coleman, ...someone turned me on to it during my time at Biola --- Margee studied it with a band of other Cal students during her time at Berkeley and God used it to capture her heart for spiritual multiplication.. This little 8 chapter book is steeped in the Gospels and has inspired and mobilized thousands of campus leaders since the outbreaks of the Jesus Movements in the 1970's up until today: http://crupress.campuscrusadeforchrist.com/files/products/masterplan.pdf
The Campinile aglow at night, ...what if it said, "Go Prayers!"
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