(Oxford, MS) -- Tonya Prewett, mom, prayer warrior and UNITE founder, sat down with K-LOVE's Monika Kelly to talk about the latest youth revival event at Ole Miss (University of Mississippi) where more than 6,000 students gathered on October to hear a powerful message and praise Jesus.
Listen to the conversation here:
Monika: "You're somebody who prayed just a little over a year ago and God has brought such an incredible harvest. You are the person behind UNITE US which has turned into a movement all over college campuses where thousands of kids are coming to salvation. They are getting baptized...they are having radical life-changing experiences."
Tonya: "All glory to God. We're not capable of doing this so we give all glory and honor to God who is making this possible."
Monika: "It's always important to say that it all started with prayer. You were leading a Bible study with just a few women on campus at Auburn University it's just exploded. You just recently went to Mississippi."
Tonya: "We started at Auburn and had no idea what was coming and it's spread. We've been in nine different universities now and every event is different. Every event is special in it's own way and (at Mississippi)...it was packed house. Students are so hungry for hope and truth and close to a thousand students came forward to dedicate their lives to Christ and...it's students on their own campus coming to witness this move of God."
Tonya makes it a point to minister to the young women on campus before each event.
Tonya: "I have the pleasure and the honor of going into sororities on the Monday night before the event. I get to go into 10 to 12 sororities in one night. I get to share just deeply, from my heart the vision behind this and how it even got started. Something happens in those sorority houses and I can't even explain it. Like it feels like that's where it begins and there are so many students who are not Christians who will come because they get a personal invitation. We see so many non-believers actually come to these events...that walk out giving their hearts to Jesus, getting baptized and then getting connected in their local churches. It's just beautiful. God's doing it and He's doing it at every campus and we're just blown away. Everywhere we go, we're just blown away."
Monika: "I had no idea that you were going into sororities and fraternities. I'm sure that just meeting you, they're having an encounter with the Holy Spirit and seeing the hands and feet of Jesus. And then you go and Jennie Allen and JP Pokluda are presenting the gospel in such just the perfect way for this generation."
Tonya: "Yes, Jennie's message is always tied to the things that keep us bound. You know, the addictions and the different things that just keep us bound and weighted down. She always ends it with the students to have a time of confession. And it's just so beautiful...you just see students so broken and they go into a time of confession and they're just weeping. It's like they've never said these things out loud. And then JP, he will present the gospel. He will present his testimony. He will do illustrations that really bring them into perspective of letting those things go and walking fully with Jesus. The response at every university we go to is just amazing."
Tonya and her UNITE team is just getting started. They have several dates planned and are praying for an even broader reach.
Tonya's heart? To reach this generation for Jesus.
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