{"id":9974,"date":"2024-04-16T09:32:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T13:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/?p=9974"},"modified":"2024-04-16T13:33:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T17:33:53","slug":"hundreds-of-young-people-spontaneously-get-baptized-in-backs-of-pickup-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2024\/04\/hundreds-of-young-people-spontaneously-get-baptized-in-backs-of-pickup-trucks.html","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Young People Spontaneously Get Baptized in Backs of Pickup Trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One year after the remarkable 16-day, non-stop worship service at Asbury University, an outpouring still appears to be striking various schools and student bodies across America. For example, well-known ministry leaders Jennie Allen, Jonathan Pokluda, and others recently baptized hundreds of University of Georgia students. Instead of immersions in traditional baptismal pools, many of the students professed their faith in the backs of pickup trucks outside a fraternity, a truly unique setting.<\/p>\n

Online videos showed large crowds of students gathered around these trucks, watching their classmates openly embrace Christ. Allen wrote in an Instagram caption, \u201cInsane night at the University of Georgia! Once again! He is moving!!!!\u201d Allen, who called these happenings \u201cso powerful,\u201d explained in the video that the baptisms followed an evangelistic event at Stegeman Coliseum led by Allen and Pokluda. She said in an Instagram video, noting there were as many as 7,000 or 8,000 students assembled at the stadium, \u201cWe preached Jesus; worship\u2019s incredible. And so, we are preaching Jesus, confessing sin; all these students, and it\u2019s just so beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allen said a call from the stage asking who wanted to embrace Jesus led young people all over the venue to stand up. Then, the baptisms unfolded in a parking lot in front of the fraternity. Allen said, \u201cWe found a public parking lot, and we got four pickup trucks. And we were baptizing kids in four pickup trucks. All these fraternity guys were watching from their decks. It\u2019s just insane.\u201d Allen is the founder of IF: Gathering, a women\u2019s ministry and a New York Times bestselling author. Pokluda is the lead pastor of Harris Creek Baptist church in Waco, Texas, and a best-selling author.<\/p>\n

In the last six months, Allen has led a series of campus evangelistic events in the South. It all started when she\u00a0helped hundreds<\/a>\u00a0of young people get spontaneously baptized at Auburn University in Alabama last September \u2014 something she\u00a0recently spoke about<\/a>\u00a0with CBN News. \u201cIt was [a] pretty incredible night, and we didn\u2019t plan it,\u201d she said of the September event, noting she had a \u201csense of the Spirit\u2026moving\u201d after speaking. \u201cI get off the stage, and [a pastor] walked up to me and said \u2026 \u2018This girl just texted me and said, \u2018I want to be baptized tonight.\u2019\u201d Allen said she asked where they could go nearby to find a place to offer that baptism. At first, they considered a pool, but they wanted to \u201cthink bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n

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