The First Monday of 24 hours of Prayer

After being contacted by Wisconsin's state coordinator from Campus America Dayn Lukes, we decided to first commit to every other Monday. UWSP has not really seen a committed 24-7 prayer movement so we as "the prayer team" decided we would start out with every other Monday. Our first Monday would be October 18th.  We were blown away with what God was starting to do.

We had about a week and a half to set everything up after committing to every other Monday starting the 18th of October. The week before the 18th, God supplied everything we needed and more in just 2 1/2 days. The girls that live in the house where our basement room prayer room is made a final decision to allow the basement room to be used as "the prayer room." The next day, an anonymous donor left an envelope of almost $200 on a wall used for prayer requests at our fall retreat addressed solely for starting up our vision of an actual prayer room. The day after that, a leader in our movement had a chance to get FREE furniture from his boss. This was crazy, God supplied everything in less than 3 days! We set up the room with the furniture, blankets, verses on the walls, a paper wall for prayer requests, pictures and souvenirs from other countries, a map of the world, bibles, books, writing utensils, and special journals for sharing writing and sharing art. Our hope was to see at least one person fill every hour of the first day of 24 hours.

God showed up so much more than we had expected. It was definitely a lesson learned about how much we doubt our Father. Throughout the first day, between 60-70 students went in and out of the room to pray for revival on our campus and things going on in their own lives. The last two hours of the first Monday, there were 20-25 students packed in this small little room worshipping the Lord through prayer.

After this first Monday, we decided that we could easily do every Monday instead of every other and we changed our commitment. We continued to pray for our students' hearts to be penetrated with the need for prayer and continued to hope for momentum to eventually do a full week of 24-7 prayer and continue even further after that. We are continually trusting in God's plan for this room and our campus.