“On March 26, hundreds gathered on the beach at sunset cliffs as dozens got baptized,” Stark told CBN News in an email. “As baptisms were happening, an unrelated event released balloons into the sky. After looking at the pictures, we realized that there were 35 balloons, along with a total of 35 baptisms at the cliffs that day.”
Asbury Revival Subject of New TV Documentary
Meanwhile, the story of Asbury University’s revival in February which led thousands to the small college town of Wilmore, Kentucky, and drew attention from around the world is now being told in a new television documentary.
Christian Headlines reports the program titled Asbury Revival: Desperate for More will premiere on Redeem TV this weekend.
The documentary will highlight the story of the spontaneous event and will feature interviews with students, university staff, and other participants, according to the outlet.
Redeem TV is a donor-supported, ad-free, streaming service with no fees, according to the platform’s website.
As CBN News has reported, what some have referred to as a potential new Great Awakening within Christian history started as a spark on the campus of Asbury University, where thousands of Christians gathered for two weeks of Spirit-led worship, prayer, and repentance. That unplanned outpouring is raising hopes because a previous revival in 1970 on the Asbury campus was seen as a significant driver behind the Jesus Movement of the 70s.
“What the Holy Spirit started at Asbury spread to Lee University, Samford University, Baylor University, Cedarville University, Texas A&M, Oklahoma Baptist University, Louisiana State University, Regent University, Indiana Wesleyan, and in total over 30 other college campuses. It has also spread to other parts of the world including Korea and the Philippines and continues in pockets,” Redeem TV said on its website.
Produced by 1 Voice Films, Bill Curtis, the documentary’s executive producer told Christian Headlines he hopes viewers will be moved as they watch the film. The goal, he said, is that it will “create a hunger in them for revival in their life, in their community.”
“Our prayer is that as people see what happened in Asbury that it just sparks a hunger and may continue to poke the coals,” Curtis said.
In the trailer for the documentary, as students are shown raising their hands in worship, one man says: “This might be a very small glimpse of heaven. This might be what heaven looks like.”