Righting the ship at WSC through prayer

from Chris Hruska, student president at Wayne State College:

A month ago our ministry at best could be describes as “Functional”. As a leadership team we had all the right motives, gifts and abilities yet our community consistently seemed to be suffering from division with in. We wrote out our goals, restructured and even implemented the newest ministry strategies yet the spiritual harvest was sparse and our ministry seemed to be spiraling downward into an inward focus.

What we needed couldn’t come from a popular theory or principle or any other natural means; our community desperately needed God to start working in Super natural ways. For our leaders and ministry this meant a serious, second-to-none approach to prayer.

Last week we began applying the powerful approach to prayer and the results have been supernatural. One example of this growing prayer movement that is taking place on our campus takes place happens every Monday, Wednesday and Friday when five girls from our ministry gather together to pray for an hour before eating lunch. Others include random and unplanned prayer walks taking place not out of a duty to participate but out of a heart felt desire to pray for our campus.

The results of these prayer are making an eternal difference on our campus! Tonight Brady Heartman and Karen Sharp lead an evangelism training seminar with 35 students in attendance; after the meeting they encourage students to take part in trash ministry and share their faith. One student had the opportunity to share his testimony and faith for the first with his neighbor. Another student, (Austin Diehm a freshman who was sharing his faith for the first time on campus) had the opportunity to lead a student who lived just 4 doors down from him in prayer.

By simply humbling ourselves, and dropping to our knees in prayer God has accomplished more on our campus in the last weeks as he as in the last two months!!

I'm so encouraged to hear the accounts of such a large number of students taking steps of faith to pray for direction and then act out on the direction that God has given!

-Ethan Wiekamp