This Labor Day weekend, nine Biola students from the on-campus Revive Ministry went up to Sacramento to participate in “The Call.”

”[During this time] there were a little over 5,000 people gathered together outside the state capitol to fast and pray for God to send revival for our nation: to end abortion, to stop human trafficking, and taking a stand against gay marriage. Basically, we asked God to plead the blood over our sins and the sins of our nation,” said Maggie Hazen, the director of Revive Ministries.

Beginning at 9 a.m., they prayed and fasted in 100-degree weather until 9 p.m. There was non-stop worship on the stage during that period, as well as nonstop prayer and intercession.

What happened in Sacramento greatly affected the people who were involved.

“Two hours after we were done praying for human trafficking, one of the leaders came on stage and said Craig’s List abolished human trafficking on their site,” said Hazen.

“Revive” Ministry recognizes that there is much power in prayer and fasting as a spiritual discipline. They advocate the “awakening and preparing of the Bride for the coming of the Bridegroom.”

A few may have spotted the Revive table at the Ministry Festival on Tuesday and Wednesday, among many other ministries. Along with them, Revive has an objective to see a momentum gather on this campus towards prayer.

“We have yet to access the warehouse of Heaven. There’s so much more that God wants to do, we just have to cry out for it. There’s a verse that says, ‘If we don’t cry out, the rocks will’ [Luke 19:40]. And so we want to see the supernatural on this campus. We want people to encounter the love of God in a tangible way. I want to see the day when we don’t have to offer chapel credit because people want to willingly come and taste the presence of God,” said Hazen.

Revive ministry meets every Thursday at 9 p.m. in the Mosaic Conference Room in the Student Union Building.