Last week (3/21 - 3/25) was PFA's Go For It Week where we train our students in evangelism and challenge them to reach out to their friends. On Monday, I had the privilege to teach our students how to transition into spiritual conversations with others as well as how to present the Gospel clearly and simply. Our students made goals for themselves for students they wanted to pray for as well as conversations they wanted to initiate about the Gospel.

On Tuesday and Wednesday we had the pleasure of hosting Robby Dawkins. Robby is the senior pastor and founder of the Aurora Vineyard Church of Aurora, IL and is one of the people I interviewed for my thesis on miracles. He was also featured in the international documentary Furious Love. On Tuesday evening he came and  trained the students in our ministry to do "power evangelism," a term coined by John Wimber, founder of the Vineyard movement. He taught us about healing, prophecy, deliverance, and ministering the presence of God and told us a number of amazing miracles stories to illustrate his points. He prayed for few students and at least two were healed completely! He also prophesied over a number of students, moving many to tears as they heard God speaking to them in a direct way.

On Wednesday, Robby led our Noon Prayer time giving a great devotional and prayer ministry. Many students were touched powerfully by the Holy Spirit. Afterward, we split up into groups and went out on the campus asking if we could pray for people. Robby led a few different groups of students. I ran across a couple of my old volleyball teammates, one who is an alumnus, happened to be back visiting campus. I prayed for them and had Robby pray for them as well. Robby prophesied over both of them and one of them had a headache that was healed. Robby also prayed for a couple of the barristas at one of the coffee counters and they were both completely healed!

On Wednesday evening we had our big campus-wide event, "Do Miracles Happen Today?" (photos above). Robby told some incredible miracle stories and explained why he believes Christians should pray for and expect miracles today in light of the Gospel. He also prayed for about 10 people and around 6 or 7 were completely healed. He held a Q&A session where skeptics voiced their opinions and questions and Robby answered them well. He then had people come forward for prayer if they wanted it. Robby prayed that God's presence would come down and touch each person. Two of the skeptics came forward as well. They said that they were Christians but didn't believe in any of the supernatural things that Robby was talking about. Robby prayed that God would shower them with His love and His Holy Spirit. They both started shaking uncontrollably and would've fallen over if other students weren't right behind them. Afterward they both said that they lost control of their bodies and felt energy surging through them and the presence of God. Robby later prophesied over a few other people, all saying that he had told their life story without knowing them and leading one girl to tears. The students were incredibly blessed by Robby's visit and he made the front page of The Daily Princetonian!

The next morning, I went to pick up Robby at his hotel to take him to the airport. I joined him inside as he was finishing up his breakfast. As we got up to leave he handed the bill to the waitress and thanked her. She responded by saying, "Thank you so much for the prayer! My back feels amazing now! I just called my mom and told her!" I asked Robby what happened and he said that God told him she had back pain, he asked to pray for her back, and she was completely healed and shocked.

Our last event of our Go For It Week was our "Bring a Friend" 802 on Friday. Our very own PFA ministry fellow Scott Jones gave a great Gospel presentation and at least two people gave their lives to Christ for the first time.

This weekend we have our much anticipated Ivy League Congress on Faith and Action where over 400 Ivy League students and speakers will gather to inspire faith, discuss callings and vocations, and learn more about how to seek God zealously. Register at the link above! Stay tuned!

Check out our new 24/7 prayer room! We've called this room and initiative Tiger Watch combining the Princeton mascot and the theme from Isaiah 62:6-7, "On your walls , O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the Lord in remembrance, take no rest, and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth." We want to see Princeton become a praise in the earth where God's Kingdom is established on our campus. Our goal is to give him no rest until He does.

This initiative was just started this year and our goal is to have enough people sign up for shifts that there will be people in there praying around the clock! I'm amazed so far by the dedication of our prayer warriors who are consistently filling up the 2am to 9am shifts! We still have a lot o slots to fill up though but God is good and we're eager to see what He'll do this year through Tiger Watch.

Students are free to pray in the room in any manner they want but the room is divided up into 6 stations to guide student's prayer if they want. This may be especially helpful for those who find it hard to spend an hour or half hour in prayer. Click through the slide show above for explanations about each station. If you're a student, conatc

Sorry for not updating in a while! These past few weeks have been very busy but also very rewarding. It's wonderful to be in the presence of so many people who are dedicated to Christ and to be able to encourage others to seek after Him. We wrapped up our freshman campaign with a weekend at the Jersey Shore. We took about 20 freshmen on the trip with us along with a few upperclassmen and staff to help facilitate. We had a great time building relationships as we played games, built sandcastles, swam, watched movies, and shared meals together. Although we only had 20 freshmen on the trip, we have a total of 88 freshmen participating in our Bible Courses. That's roughly 8 percent of the freshmen class!

Speaking of Bible Courses, I'm blessed with the responsibility of co-leading three of our freshmen men's courses. We're doing an in-depth study of 2 Timothy over the course of the Fall semester. The guys are loving the course and beginning to comprehend the gravity of Paul and Timothy's dedication to the gospel as they encountered severe suffering and persecution for their faith. The letter serves as a great challenge to all of us to seriously consider the truths of the faith, who Jesus really was and is, and whether or not he is truly worth living for, suffering for, and dying for.

I'm also getting to meet one-on-one with all of the freshmen guys in these courses to encourage them and help them pursue God. It's been a blessing to get to know them all and see them start to grow rapidly in their faith even though they've only been here a couple of months!

Our large group weekly meetings for the students are called "802" mainly because that's when it starts. We had to bounce around a few locations this year because they seem to enjoy double booking us with other events. We're not sure if this is intentional or not but we're still having trouble finding a consistent place to meet. One of the places we met all of last year and a few times this year has been Frist 302, the lecture hall that Albert Einstein used to teach in! I suppose it's a blessing that we're simply getting too big for that room now! We're consistently hosting well over a hundred students every week. This past week we got to hear from Dave Harvey, a pastor, author, speaker, and church planter who's recent book Rescuing Ambition has created a lot of buzz. He gave a great message this past Friday to our students about how best to use our ambition. His central point was that while worldly ambition leads us to glorify ourselves and become prideful, we can channel that ambition to our faith which will lead us to seek God's glory and become great for Him. His main text was John 12:42-43. "Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue; for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God." It was a great message to preach to so many ambitious young men and women, especially for those Christians who want to be able to use their ambitions but want to stay humble.

One of the most exciting things we've started this year is our 24-hour prayer room, located right across the street from campus. It's open to all students and we have a Google calendar where students can log in and sign up for shifts. The room itself looks amazing. Some of the students painted and decorated it with curtains, pillows, chairs, lamps, Bibles, art supplies, a stereo for worship music, and a large red cross on the wall (I'll post pictures soon!). There are six different stations inside to guide people through prayer. Some people might not be used to praying for a half hour or hour time slot so they can spend 5 minutes at each station for a half hour or 10 for an hour. The stations are Worship, Read/Pray the Word, Confession/Repentance, Personal Prayer Requests, Prayer for Princeton, Prayer for the World. I've been able to meet with a number of my freshman guys in there and pray for them and encourage them to seek the Lord. Our goal is to get people to sign up for enough shifts so that we'll have people in there praying 24/7! It started a couple of weeks ago so we're not quite there yet but it's amazing to see the die-hard prayer warriors completely fill up the calendar from 2am to 9am every day! (If you're a student reading this, email me about how you can sign up for a shift!).

This week is midterms and the students are bogged down with exams which means it's a fairly light work week for me. Next week is Fall break! This weekend I'll be attending an Ivy Student Leaders Conference for upperclass students interested in pursuing ministry. It'll be a blessing to encourage students just a couple of years younger than me and tell them about how much I've enjoyed doing ministry at Princeton. After that, from November 3-7, I'll be in the Chicago, IL area attending a ministry/prayer conference with a couple of students and many of our staff members. The featured speaker is John Mulinde! He's a pastor from Uganda who played a key role in the revival that took place in that country in the late 90's. I've gotten to hear him speak before on DVD's but it'll be a great blessing to hear him speak in person. Stay tuned for updates about that! Overall it's been such a blessing to work here and I'm incredibly excited to see how God is moving in the lives of Princeton students this year!