Week of 24/5 Prayer & National Coming Out Week @ U of Missouri—KC!

This week at the University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC), there is a tent set up in the middle of campus where students will be gathering around the clock to pray for UMKC. For 5 days this week, five ministries have each adopted 24 hours of prayer where students will take shifts around the clock in the prayer tent to believe God for spiritual awakening & revival on their campus.

But our prayer tent was not the only 24-hour tent to be found on the UMKC quad... an LGBT student group, Queers & Allies, had also rented & set up a 24-hour tent on the quad for the National Coming Out Week where students are encourged to "come out of the closet" about their homosexuality. What an interesting "coincidence": two 24-hour tents, one for godly prayer and the other for gay pride, to be set up across from each other on the same week on the same campus!

So last night, Angela & I were hosting an evening shift at the prayer tent. We were struck by the strange reality of us sitting in a prayer tent at UMKC across from a gay pride tent. We didn't know what to make of it, but we knew that if we were there, we were going to pray... So pray we did that God would break into the homosexual community at UMKC with His love and that revival on campus would start there. Next thing we know, a young lady walks across the quad from the gay pride tent to our prayer tent! In the next half hour, she starts opening up her heart and sharing about the challenges of her life. We end up getting to share the Gospel with her and praying for her. It was SO powerful!

And this was just the first night too. I believe what God is doing at UMKC this week is going to become a normal reality in Christian communities on college campuses — where prayer becomes the paramount priority of all ministry and where prayer is no longer just a "good idea" but a critical necessity. Please continue to pray for UMKC, this week of 24/5 prayer, and the homosexual community that we've had the privilege of reaching out to.

Co-laboring with you,
-thai & angela-