God is moving on college campuses across the country. Revival hit campuses like Asbury University, Lee University, and Samford University, earlier this year. And now Auburn University students are testifying that God moved at an event recently that still has them “speechless and in awe.”
Thousand of students at Auburn packed out Neville Arena on a Tuesday night to worship and praise Jesus, but an impromptu baptism that started with one student wanting to be baptized grew to roughly 200 people who decided to give their lives to Christ.
“I’ve seen Auburn basketball beat Kentucky. I’ve seen Auburn football beat Alabama, but I have never seen something like I did Tuesday night,” Auburn University senior Michael Floyd told WFSA12 News.
More than 5,000 people showed up to Unite Auburn’s “Night of Worship”. The campus ministry’s outreach was created to bring the Alabama school’s Christian community together for a night of worship. It featured guest speakers New York Times Best Selling Author Jennie Allen and Pastor Jonathan Pokluda and worship was led by Passion Music.
“I finished a message at Auburn and was off stage and a student texted the pastor beside me they wanted to be baptized tonight. So I went back on stage and asked if anyone else wanted to trust Christ and be baptized,” Allen explained. “Dozens raised their hands.”
There wasn’t a tub to baptize the students, so thousands of people headed over to a lake at Auburn’s Red Barn.
“They circled the lake and 6-10 of us were in the water baptizing hundreds,” Allen described. “People surrounded the lake ’til almost midnight hearing the stories of life change and shouting and cheering and praying together. God is moving and He isn’t stopping.”
Auburn student and journalist, Kristen Carr, witnessed the entire thing and told WFSA12 News it was something she had never seen before.
“Never in my life,” she expressed. “I was even talking to adults who were there and they said they had never witnessed anything like that.”
Video shows the large crowd gathered at the very edge of the lake. Cheers erupt every time someone emerges from the water.
“God is doing something on Auburn’s campus,” Allen told The Observer. “This was a part of a bigger story that’s happening here.”