More than 10,000 students packed into Reed Arena at Texas A&M University Oct. 29, with hundreds coming to the altar to give their lives to Jesus Christ. 

Unite US, a college campus evangelistic movement marked by salvations, worship, and baptisms, closed out its fall semester tour at the College Station, Texas, campus.

This fall, the movement has traveled to pockets of college campuses in the southeast, including the University of Florida, Mississippi State University, the University of Arkansas and the University of South Carolina.

“We’ve seen over 70,000 students gather on 11 campuses representing 400 universities,” said Unite US founder and evangelist Tonya Prewett. “We’ve seen around 5,000 saved and close to 2,000 baptized. It’s truly indescribable.” 

The organization traces its origins to an event that kicked off at Auburn University’s Neville Arena in September 2023. Five thousand students showed up to worship Jesus and 200 were spontaneously baptized in a nearby lake. 

“When God gave me the vision for Unite Auburn, I could have never imagined what was coming,” Prewett told CBN News. “I remember standing at [the] baptisms after the Auburn event in the middle of thousands of students just praising God and thinking how can this stop? And it hasn’t. He keeps doing it. Again and again.”

Unite US leaders are encouraging people to continue to pray for revival among Gen Z. The ministry launched its “Unite Day of Prayer and Social Media Fast” on Nov. 1. 

“People say there’s no hope for Gen Z,” the ministry wrote. “But after tonight, we have more hope than ever that this generation will lead us in the greatest revival our nation has ever seen. This may be our last Unite of the semester, but we believe it’s only the beginning of all God has in store.”

One student, Kaden, shared with Jennie Allen, United US speaker and founder of IF:Gathering, how attending a previous United US event changed his life. 

“I was in the biggest fraternity on campus and fully in the world,” Kaden said. “I loved it. I was high up in it. I was about to be our pledge marshal and I was going to run for president. I was selling drugs. I was doing a lot of drugs. I was living in the world doing what the world tells you to do.”

Kaden then told Allen that it was a message she preached at the school last year that changed his life. 

“You preached your message and it was on what it means to truly be a Christian. It was the same message you preached tonight,” he noted. “I remember like wow. Sins held me down for so long. I feel miserable. I have everything the world has to offer. Yet, I still feel awful. I still feel depressed and I’m anxious and I’m sad.”

Kaden says he has given it all to the Lord. 

“I said to my friend, ‘I’m done. I’m going all in. Like it’s me and Jesus,’” he recalled. “The next day, I dropped out of my fraternity. I dropped out of Tennessee and I’ve been pursuing Jesus since. Now I’m a ministry major at Southeastern University. And I want to go into missions and college ministry.” 

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