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It's here. Gen Z Revival hits campuses this fall by Sarah Eikoff-Zailstra.

This fall, Campus Outreach Chicago Expansion director Tony Dentman gave a pep talk to his

four new staff members. It's going to be hard, he told them. We're just throwing out a lot of seeds,

and for many of them, we're never going to see the fruit. He was speaking from experience.

Dentman has spent the last eight years working at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

He's never been able to get kids to come to a large weekly gathering.

He was just feeling good that about 100 out of UIC's 33,000 students were coming to small Bible studies.

So nobody was more surprised than Dentman when 90 kids showed up to his

first attempt at a larger gathering this fall, and 80 kept coming back each week. Before his staff

even leaned fully into evangelism, young people began coming to Christ. With intentional evangelism

efforts, momentum took off. Now more than 200 students are plugged

into small group Bible studies, learning God's Word and growing in their faith together.

This level of spiritual engagement is unheard of in our world, he said. Our staff is saying,

it feels like we're cheating because we're doing the same thing,

but there's double or triple the amount of people showing up to everything.

Over the last couple of years, perhaps you've heard the stories of revival here and there,

Asbury, the Salt Company, and various college ministries across the country.

Statistics also sounded promising. From England to the

United States, more people reported making a personal commitment to Jesus and attending church.

The number of people with no religious affiliation, which had been increasing for decades,

seemed to stall. To me, it felt like watching a pot of water heat up. There were isolated bubbles here

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