
We Are Desperate
Brenna Hughes
Junior, Dartmouth College
Environmental Studies major
In recent years it has become increas ingly clear that not even an Ivy League
professor can solve the world’s problems of poverty, disease and war. Solutions need
to come directly from heaven and God’s heart.
Many students are realizing this and laying everything of
the world at Jesus’ feet and following Him in search of truth. We
have seen what the world has to offer—and we are desperate
to drink of heaven.
The church’s role is crucial in sustaining students’ journeys.
Believers must come alongside us on our spiritual walks—and
although lunch after church is great, that is not what I mean. We
need people who will intercede and pray with us.
Churches that are reaching college campuses were not
established haphazardly—they have a specific destiny that is interwoven with that of
the college and its students. There are mothers and fathers in those churches who are
meant to usher in destinies.
Please allow students to pour their hearts out in prayer for their colleges, churches
and nations. Offer your home, church or office for students to pray. Share your gift
of worship by offering to minister to students one night a week. Fast your lunch and
pray with students in the college chapel. Speak and prophesy into their lives. Please
support them with your compassion and wisdom.

