Bethel Col­lege Cel­e­brates Col­le­giate Day of Prayer

MISHAWAKA—On Thurs­day, Feb. 28, Bethel Col­lege cel­e­brated the an­nual Col­le­giate Day of Prayer. The Stu­dent Life Team sent out an email no­ti­fy­ing the stu­dents of the events hap­pen­ing on cam­pus to com­mem­o­rate the day. 

One of the ac­com­mo­da­tions that the Stu­dent Life Team made for stu­dents was they opened the Tay­lor Memo­r­ial Log Chapel. The in­for­ma­tional email said, “From 9 a.m. - Mid­night Thurs­day, the Tay­lor Memo­r­ial “Log” Chapel will be open for fac­ulty, staff and stu­dents to par­tic­i­pate in­di­vid­u­ally in a time of guided prayer…Your jour­ney through the prayer sta­tions will be in­di­vid­ual and pri­vate and will take ap­prox­i­mately 20-30 min­utes.”

An­other one of the events that the Stu­dent Life Team had planned for cam­pus was a wor­ship gath­er­ing. Ac­cord­ing to the Team, from 9 -10 p.m. in the Shiloh Prayer Chapel “we will par­tic­i­pate to­gether in a stu­dent-led Prayer and Wor­ship Gath­er­ing. Dur­ing this hour we will wor­ship to­gether, and pray in groups for God to move in our hearts and the col­lege cam­puses in our re­gion.” 

The gath­er­ing be­gan with a read­ing from scrip­ture and an open­ing prayer and then the group was led in a few wor­ship songs, fol­lowed by a can­dle­light mo­ment. There was a good num­ber of stu­dents who were able to at­tend and wor­ship. Hope­fully, next year, there will be an even big­ger move­ment on cam­pus.