Students Devote Themselves to Prayer

Northwest Christian University Campus Ministries sponsored "15 Hours of Prayer" on November 19-20th. Taking place once each semester on the campus of NCU, the event begins with the normally scheduled Thursday night chapel service at 8:00pm and concluding the following morning with Friday's 11:00am Chapel service.

The students, faculty, and staff that chose to attend were invited to pray for the world, community, campus body, and any issues that they have been dealing with personally. This year there were different "rooms" within the chapel in which participants were encouraged to pray for different things. Also, each hour had a distinct theme and movement to which participants could relate their prayers. It was also made sure that during this time, each individual student attending NCU was prayed for.

Alex Davies, Student Worship Coordinator, said, "Prayer is powerful. Having an event like this to spend extended time praying is good because our culture has gotten used to the short, personal need-based prayer, and we need more of the personal, one-on-one communication time devoted to speaking with God. Setting time aside for this is something that a lot of us neglect to do."