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Students at California
State U.-Monterey Bay returned from Urbana 96 convinced that God
wanted them to intercede daily for their campus. (This is a fairly
new fellowship which has had difficulty being accepted on campus
by the administration.) They decided to meet for prayer at the
flagpole every day at noon.
"Our first day at the pole,
one of the administrators approached us," says Steve Colby,
who assists the group as an InterVarsity® staff member.
"Yes!" she replied eagerly. She asked the group to pray for the university's accreditation process-an area that brings real headaches-and then thanked them profusely. The students walked away from the pole amazed that God brought along one of the people they'd least expected to see. "Prayer is shaping everything we are doing," adds Steve. The small groups are studying people of prayer in the Old Testament, and after the noon prayer time, students disperse to eat lunch with other students on campus. Some ethnic-minority students are joining the group at the pole for prayer as well. |
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"She's
one of the tough-minded administrators who has worked with us
about our organization's status. We told her what we were doing,
and asked her if there was anything we could pray for."
