Revival in Every Neighborhood

It is no secret that America needs a move of God. The beauty of a local church movement is to see change happen not just on a city level, but from neighborhood to neighborhood and street to street. Street by street we want to see houses and families changed with the love of God. We long to see a young generation return to God. Right now for the church as a whole, the frontline of this battle exists in local church youth groups. The problem is that even though we have outstanding youth groups, they still only reach a fraction of the total percentage of the young generation.

Dream with me. We need revival in every neighborhood, but only a small percentage of the kids in each neighborhood actually attend church, much less youth group. How do we reach them? Where does this generation spend the majority of their time???

Public school.

Now think about this in terms of a movement. Public schools are in every neighborhood of America, thanks to our nation's education system. Students who attend from 8 AM - 3 PM each day spend a total of 35 hours a week in the school building... ALL of them. Not just 25-40% of them. If you want to see change hit this generation, we need to get outside our own doors and to the students.

There is a system already in place in every neighborhood of our nation that systematically gathers all of the students by age into 1 location for the majority of their day... When I see kids walking into public school by the hundreds and even by the thousands, I see kids walking into revival centers. What if the public schools of America were ambushed by God? What if each morning when a student woke up, they went to a school where they felt God. What if the salvation rate of students enrolled in public school was 75%. Thats a huge majority of everyone in that neighborhood, and that's transformation. Why not?

Laws, you say. No. The Supreme Court of America outlawed prayer led by staff but not prayer led by students. We need to mobilize public school ministries that happen on campus to reach their student bodies. More than anything, we need to mobilize a generation to student-led prayer on campus, and from that place launch the greatest evangelism movement in the history of the church.

This is what I dream of : )