Author| Dustin Hedrick
Posted on| ComeRevive.Us
Category| Revival Accounts
Source| dustinhedrick.net
Originating Post| None – Personal Files
Forest Fire ‘97
“The 10 Year Anniversary”
Today, Thursday, February 15, 2007 marks the 10 year anniversary of Forest Fire ‘97, the climax of a campus movement, revival and awakening at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The account can best be told through the actual words of the emails, posts, newspaper articles, accounts from others and more.
This is a “first” article on the events, so there will be more that are better suited for explaining the events and giving a full account, this post will have the link of the actual scanned files from participants.
Articles:
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Stats:
Some very quick stats that are not fully mentioned or were underestimated, unknown or later clarified after the event had been months past and are not clear in the articles are:
1. There were about 23 campus ministries involved.
2. There were 12 states that people traveled from to get there.
3. There were more than 3,000 in attendance, (the largest religious gathering at UNC to that date).
4. There were 41 campus ministries in total involved.
5. There were more than 250 total decisions made for faith, missions, calling to ministry and more.
6. During this time, many campus ministries’ attendance more than doubled or tripled.
7. There were often, spontaneous praise gatherings in the Pit, (the central meeting place on campus) or what was termed, “Pit Praise” weekly, and sometimes daily.
8. The stirred conversation on campus was more about religion than any other topic.
As you can see from the articles, many of these details were underestimated. It was only after the testimonies and stories came back that we found out just what happened.
If you were at Forest Fire ‘96 or ‘97, please leave a comment, post, or email me at: dustinhedrick@holyworldwide.com. Let’s have a Forest Fire ‘97 reunion. I really do want to hear what your story is. This was such a huge thing in my life and in the lives of others and we feel like this kind of thing is on the verge of happening again and we want to bless it on this, the 10 year Anniversary!
Blessings!