Wellesley College is a small, liberal arts college for women, located about 20 miles from Boston. The Wellesley College motto is:
Non ministrari sed ministrare
Not to be ministered unto but to minister
A band of friends, students at Wellesley, have been faithfully praying for their campus for more than two years. They've been ministering to God and longing for Him to minister His reality to girls on their campus. They just hosted another 24 hours of prayer. Read on to hear what Kate Reece wrote about this beautiful day.
"Dear friends,
First of all, I must tell you how comforted and encouraged I was to receive so many emails letting me know that you were in prayer for Wellesley and for our Day of Prayer - thank you so much! I'd love especially to thank the many people that came to pray with us - it blessed us beyond what you can imagine. We are so incredibly grateful for all of you extending your hands to us in prayer.
Our two main objectives behind the Day of Prayer were:
- For there to be prayers lifted up that not only move the heart of God, but that impact significant spiritual change on this campus full of women who desperately need to know their Creator.
- To see individuals, both Christians and non-Christians, transformed from the inside-out by "wasting" time in God's presence.
I believe I can say with assurance that both of those things happened, as I received many reports about people and what a significant impact their time in prayer room had on them. One girl wrote,
"When I was in high school, I didn't like the Old Testament because I felt like the New Testament was much more straightforward. But, when I got to college, I came to love the many forms of expression in the OT. There are poems and stories and prophecies and laws... God is much more beautiful and complex and mysterious and revealed than I had ever dreamed in high school. When I got to the prayer room, I felt this same idea affirmed. I could pray to God through a picture, by writing my name on a candle, through a loving conversation, by writing out a passage that struck me in big letters across a huge wall. All of these are acts of prayer that I have so few opportunities to do. In that room, time stood still, and as I felt moved, I could talk and listen to God in whatever way felt right just at that moment. I felt the freedom of an artist. I am so glad that room was there."
Isn't that beautiful? Others wrote:
"At Wellesley, and forever after, let me, O Lord, be a living fire burning only for You and lighting Your way upon the earth."
"Lord, take me and use me. Holy Spirit, convict me of the things in my life that I need to change. Would I keep the Cross my goal and Jesus my example."
With prayers like these being prayed, there is no way that significant transformation won't happen at Wellesley. As one of my friends/mentors says, "Prayer is the hottest thing we have." In light of this sentiment, may we continue to lift up prayers not just for Wellesley, but for our respective communities, our nation, and the world. As basic as it might sound, people need to know Jesus, and there is such immense potential in our lives to be vessels of making that happen if we will just available to our Lord.
All the glory belongs to our Abba King. Here's to living out our deepest convictions in the most ordinary places of our lives...
Kate, Paulina, Anna, and everyone else at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship"
Report taken from the 24-7 USA website.
