This year’s annual Collegiate Day of Prayer (CDOP) will take place on Thursday, Feb. 27, and is aiming to cover over 250 million college students in prayer.
Key speakers for the CDOP include Rick Warren, Jennie Allen, Bill Elliff, Brian Fisher, Sarah Breuel, Jon Hietbrink, Dan Allen, and Brian McCormack.
In a video for the CDOP, Thai Lam, who is a member of the CDOP leadership team, shared that 16 years ago, a group of college friends revived a long-forgotten day of prayer.
Lam is the founder and executive director of Revival is Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization that aims to unite believers in prayer for revival on college campuses and equips students to be praying leaders and lifelong disciples.
“In 2009, with nothing but a dream, we rallied students, parents, churches, campus ministries to adopt their local campuses in prayer on the last Thursday of February,” Lam explained. “Slowly, momentum began to build, and this day became known as the Collegiate Day of Prayer.”
“What began as a handful of local prayer meetings in 2010 spread to all 50 states by 2014 and grew dramatically in 2019 as this day was broadcast for the first time. To our shock, tens of thousands joined in and adopted every campus in the United States in prayer,” he added.
Since that date, Lam shared, “all 4,200 colleges in the U.S. have been adopted in prayer each year, and in 2023 over 5 million people united through the collegiate day prep broadcast from Asbury to pray for revival on every college campus.”
Lam said that “we are blown away by how God has taken the small idea and grown it beyond our expectation, and he is not done yet.”
This year, CDOP is embarking on a “far more audacious journey,” Lam explained. “For the last 15 years, we’ve called the church to pray for 20 million students in the U.S.”
“Now,” he said, “we’re inviting the global church to cover 250 million college students worldwide.” Lam emphasized that “every campus is in need of Jesus.”
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