"Royce Hall Ablaze"
"Come fight the night, and build buildings of Light,
Buildings of Living Stones, reaching out to the nations of this world.
For you are the candle, and He is the flame,
Set our hearts on fire, glory to His name!" -dc 1993
Dear Campus Leaders at UCLA, Happy New Year, ...and “heads up” brothers and sisters! For a variety of reasons, this January you and every other major university in North America will probably be see the most spiritually motivated stream of students trickle back on your campuses in recent history. This week more than 50,000 fired-up college & university students begin to return to their respective schools after coming off over a dozen life-transforming “Great Co-Missional” conferences Iie. Urbana, OneThing, CCC's WinterConferences, etc.). Keep your ears attuned, your eyes peeled, and your hearts open. Be ready to receive them and to get behind the variety of beautiful visions Jesus has probably given each of them.I heard from a little bird yesterday that UCLA Cru was holding a Vision Night Wednesday night --- So, I prayed for UCLA a bit. And, this extraordinary little book “Fireseeds of Spiritual Awakening” by Dan Hayes came to mind --- See Summary & Highlights of "Fireseeds" --- I've seen this book spark and fan more long-lasting fires amongst college students over the past 20 years --- It still captures the imagination of today's college and university students more than any other piece of contemporary revival literature in circulation.
God has put it on my heart to encourage every campus leader at UCLA to be open to the likelihood that 2010 will probably not be "business as usual" in Westwood (or anywhere else). I' offer a humble plea to everyone in the mix at UCLA to take a few minutes to prepare yourself before the year gets fully under way by reading or re-reading the first chapter of “Fireseeds”: Introduction & 1st Chapter Campus Revival Manifesto or Download Fireseeds 1st Chapter pdf Bruins, be amazed at the spiritual history of your university --- major spiritual outbreaks have begun along Bruin walk, in front of Royce Hall, and in your Greek System. Whatever the case, read it, and humble yourself and pray. It offers solid
direction how to prepare personally for revival --- offers insight about the need to call others to pray with you --- and offers Biblical and recent
personalities who modeled how to pray the Living God to manifest Himself on their campus and in their community.
Lord Jesus, please fan into flame the gift of God within the existing Jesus movements at UCLA. Lord of the Harvest, rally small praying missional bands of "fireseed" disciples --- disciples of Jesus who will seek to "make every effort" to come together this new year, ...who will work and pray together "in one accord". I pray that the UCLA campus will see exceedingly abundantly healthier Jesus movements spring up during 2010 than ever before in her history. Raise up Spirit-filled servant leaders throughout this great campus that spill out into the surrounding communities! May what You are doing at UCLA spread worthily to other campuses throughout the world. Fan into full flame the gift of God within today's Bruins (2 Timothy 6,7). Bless and empower the Body of Christ at UCLA. Anoint their current and emerging campus leaders. Lord, send more straw for their bricks and pour more fuel on their fire! Save them from being petty and shallow and short-lived. May they shine with the radical love and power and wisdom of Jesus Christ alone, Amen.
Q. Can anything good come out of Berkeley?
A. Yes, The Southern Campus did!
-dc @ The University of California
PS
My favorite all time book on discipleship is the revolutionary work
"Master Plan of Evangleism" by Robert Coleman ---Don't be fooled by how short it is, ...it will blow your categories and school you --- Here's the summary
of this classic that inspired and mobilized thousands of campus leaders
during the Jesus Movements in the 1970's and continues to speak to spiritual leaders of emerging movements everywhere:Summary of "Master Plan of Evangelism" by Robert Coleman
