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If you ask Kevin Brown, president of Kentucky’s Asbury University, about what, alongside the Holy Spirit, set the stage for the Asbury Outpouring – the February 2023 chapel service that turned into sixteen days of revival and renewal – he will probably say something about desperation. There were other things that helped, but desperation, more than anything, drove them to that point. At least, that is what he said when I spoke to him recently.

Asbury University’s president talks about the ongoing effects of the revival.