Their Faith Was So Strong, It Took Them Two Whole Weeks To Show It!

After nearly two weeks of spontaneous and continuous worship, the “revival” at Asbury University in Kentucky had its last public service on Monday.

The marathon worship service at Asbury University has drawn tens of thousands of participants from across the country.

School officials are saying that the rapid influx of visitors — whom they welcome and appreciate — is causing logistical issues for the surrounding area and will need to move off campus.

The outpouring of prayer began on Feb. 8 following a “regularly scheduled chapel service” at the Christian university.

“Students lingered to pray, worship, and share,” University President Kevin J. Brown wrote in a statement. “They have not stopped and, moreover, have been joined far and wide by hungry men and women across the world.”

Speaking with NBC News, Brown went so far as to say the morning service that day was “very ordinary” and “unremarkable.” But what started with about a dozen students eventually grew until “something special,” thanks in part to images of the worshiping going viral on TikTok.

“It has absolutely been social media that is the mechanism that people found out about this,” Mark Whitworth, Asbury University’s vice president of communications, told the outlet.

In the course of the two-week-long event, tens of thousands of people visited the area.

As a result, thousands of people have entered the town and overcrowded the small town. Just the other day, a state trooper reported 20,000 people inside the city whose population is 6,000.

“It is overwhelming,” Bobby Singh, who owns a nearby gas station, said of the crowds.

But because of overcrowding, Asbury University prayerfully decided to end the non-stop worship. They held its “concluding public worship service of the recent outpouring” on Monday afternoon. Moving forward they will be scheduling services for the public and the youth in the coming days.

“Beginning Tuesday, February 21, services available to the public will be held at another location in the central Kentucky area,” they wrote on their website. “Asbury will host evening services for college-age and high school students (16–25) through Thursday, February 23.”

Asbury Communications Director Abby Laud determined that shifting the services is essential for students.

“We recognize life for the students had to return to normal. They have to go to school, and they have midterms next week. They know this is a gift; they have received it as a gift. So we are going to change them with now you take this to your job, your family, your church.”

“We know that this is not a conclusion to hungry hearts that are stirred and responding by seeking Jesus Christ,” said Asbury University President Kevin Brown.

“And please continue to pray for the church. Pray for these young adults who are going to change the world… for Christ.”

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Sources: CourierJournal, Yahoo, NBC