The all-night meeting on 2 May in London saw 2,000 young people from three churches gather to worship and pray from 7pm to 7am. The leaders of the three churches, Saint Church, King’s Cross Church, and Imprint Church, had collaborated to put on the all-night event.
Al Gordon, the pastor of Saint Church, Hackney, reported that more than 500 people stayed beyond the event in a scene reminiscent of the early moments of the 2023 Asbury student revival in the US, saying, “It could have gone on longer.” Gordon posted more online: there were “hours where the band could not lead, but the singing continues. Spontaneous power falling on people. Sometimes profound silence. Other times shouts, groans, weeping. “One thing is certain: we are witnessing a profound and sovereign spiritual moment. If you will make room for the Lord, call on him while he is near, he will come and meet you. You can’t orchestrate this, all you can do is humble your heart…cry out, and he will come.”
“It really has been such an incredible season to minister to college campuses since Asbury,”
CBN claims that the London event is a powerful example of what has been taking place among young people around the globe. According to InterVarsity, an evangelical Christian student movement with affiliate groups on university campuses, decisions for Christ rose by 33 per cent last year. The Fellowship of Christian Athletes reports its highest number of salvations since the pandemic, and CRU (Campus Crusade for Christ International in the US), recently surpassed the one million mark in commitments to faith globally.
“It really has been such an incredible season to minister to college campuses since Asbury,” Thai Lam, Executive Director of the Revival is Family Foundation, told CBN’s ‘Faith Nation’. Pastor Ferguson believes this move of God is crossing the Atlantic. “There is early evidence that it is also moving across the Atlantic to the United States. I personally believe this is coming our direction,” he explained.
Al Gordon pointed out that, “at the end of the day, the true sign of God at work is not numbers, or experience even, it’s lives transformed, made new, sent out.”
Andrew Halloway is a British freelance editor, writer and publishing consultant. He is also editor of Good News—a national monthly evangelistic newspaper (www.goodnews-paper.org.uk). Andrew has 18 years’ experience as an editor and publishing manager in the Christian publishing world, and holds a first class honours degree in Humanities. He has long had an interest in the creation/evolution debate, and is the contributing editor of ‘The Delusion of Evolution’, a magazine-style evangelistic booklet that has sold over 23,000 copies in the UK (available from www.newlife.co.uk).