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Highlights
- Trent Sheppard explores historical turning points as they've intersected college students in prayer.
- About the Author: Trent Sheppard is a collegiate minister and teaching pastor.
- 205 Pages
- Religion + Beliefs, Christianity
- Series Name: Campus America Books
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About the Book
From the establishment of early American campuses during the Great Awakening, to the parachurch movement in the mid-20th century, Sheppard shows that students can participate in remarkable movements of God simply by being open to being moved.Book Synopsis
Trent Sheppard explores historical turning points as they've intersected college students in prayer. From the establishment of early American campuses during the Great Awakening, to the parachurch movement in the mid-twentieth century, to the Campus America initiative to establish vital praying communities on every campus in the United States, Sheppard shows that students can participate in remarkable movements of God simply by being open to being moved.
Review Quotes
"God on Campus is an inspiring narrative of courage, faith and perseverance. I am again riveted by how profoundly God uses young people who won't hide behind their youth to excuse inaction."
"God on Campus traces a remarkable legacy of spiritual awakening that stretches from the founding of the earliest colleges in the United States to a global movement of nonstop student prayer spreading across campuses today. God on Campus is an invitation for students to find their place in the story of God today."
"'God on Campus' is a top pick for those who think God dies when Christians go to college. Highly recommended."
"As Trent Sheppard states in God on Campus, 'Students today want a faith that is wildly courageous, intellectually honest, socially engaged and genuinely free.' His book documents the powerful role college students have always played throughout history in what God is doing in the world, and expresses faith and gives examples that God's Spirit is stirring on campuses today."
"College students are entering a new season of service and transformation. The message of this book will give the history, strategy and future for today's youth. I commend the author, whom I know very well, and this book. Read it and change your world."
"Every Christian needs to read the story of God On Campus. Trent beautifully retells how God has shown up at colleges and universities in the past while tapping into our hope that God will do it again in our day. From the beginning of Harvard to the Methodist movement led by the Wesley brothers, from the Student Volunteer Movement to Campus Crusade, this book gives courage to anyone serving Christ within the context of higher education: campus pastors, faculty, administration and students. Most of all, it should convince the church of the vital importance of reaching this generation of college students with the transforming gospel of Jesus Christ. Reach the campus. Build the church. Change the world."
"In God On Campus, Trent Sheppard doesn't write history, he reads it and relates to us the ways God has visited our campuses in revival. You won't find a formula for drumming up revival in our day, but you will find a sincere call to seek God with a whole heart in daily devotion. I wept as I read some accounts in this book. I went back twenty years in my journals to the last time I thought God was going to bring revival to my campus as a student. And I'm still praying that God will change the world by awakening our campuses."
"Read God on Campus. It will encourage you with its stories of God's greatness in the small places; it will challenge you to continue that close engagement with God; and, never the dry historian, Sheppard will entertain with his quirky cameos of campus life."
"Reading Trent Sheppard's work on the history of God's movement on college campuses makes me want to go back and relive history. The way Sheppard chronicles the work of God's Spirit in the lives of individuals is compelling reading, and he entices one to imagine what God might be up to next. With great care, Trent walks his readers through instance after instance of God doing something remarkable with the lives of students who are open to His work and ends each chapter with thought-provoking questions on how God might work similarly today."
"Trent Sheppard digs through layers of secular calcification to authentic source--to the wellsprings of water beneath the surface of colleges, where life can still be found, where seeds of faith come back to life. Drink deeply. This book is a rare treasure of honor, honesty and vision."
About the Author
Trent Sheppard is a collegiate minister and teaching pastor. Before moving to Boston, Massachusetts, Sheppard spent eight years working with Youth With A Mission in the United Kingdom where he helped to lead a young adults community called The Factory. Sheppard travels widely to speak with college students and others about what it means to follow Jesus.
Pete Greig is one of the founding champions of the 24-7 Prayer movement, and the Director of Prayer for Holy Trinity, Brompton in London, and a facilitator for the Campus America initiative. Greig lives in Guildford, England with his wife and two children, and they are actively engaged in a missional community and training hub called the Boiler Room. He preaches and teaches all over the world, and has authored or co-authored four books, including Red Moon Rising.