Faith Is Rising
WWJD.COM highlights faith, Scripture, revival, prayer, baptism, church community, and discipleship in today’s culture , hopeful, practical, and Jesus-centered.
Lakepointe Church baptized 882 people on Sunday, September 27, across eight Dallas-area campuses, exactly 200 more than last Baptism Sunday. Pastor Josh Howerton called it a hurricane of grace. The Monday question is who walks with those people now.
Why it matters: 882 is a real Sunday in Dallas. The pastoral question is who knows their names after the photo.
On September 29, UniteUS filled the Watsco Center at the University of Miami. Tonya Prewett said hundreds of students decided to go all in with Jesus and follow that decision with baptism outside. An arena count and a baptism count are still unpublished.
Why it matters: A full arena is hope. The sidewalk outside is where someone has to know a student's name on Monday.
Barna Group·
Young people gathered in person this month in Dallas, Lakeland, Toledo, South Devon, Sweden, and Paris. Barna finds 34 percent of Gen Z and Millennials attending church more than a year ago. Prayer is the top spiritual reason they give, at 45 percent.
Why it matters: The gatherings are in person. If a young adult in your life is newly serious about Jesus, sit with them, open a Bible, and walk them to church.
Sports Spectrum·
About five people signed up to be baptized at Toledo on September 14. About fifty went into the water. Sahakian, Richter, and Green led it. Lina AbuJamra asked the next day: now what?
Why it matters: A plan built for five now owes fifty. I ran follow-up in youth ministry, and the week after is where most of it failed.
National Network of Youth Ministries·
See You at the Pole 2026 is Wednesday, September 23, with the theme Come to Me from Matthew 11:28. The student-led gathering is in its 36th year. The Global Week of Student Prayer runs September 20-26.
Why it matters: I helped as a volunteer youth leader in those early years. From that season I see See You at the Pole as part of what helped the What Would Jesus Do? question take hold. I still want students to live the answer after the circle breaks.
Premier Christian News·
On Saturday, September 5, 170 people were baptized at Bigbury-on-Sea, South Devon, UK. BibleLadUK has about 7,100 subscribers. Kraft put out an open invitation. Calvary Chapel Plymouth walked with him.
Why it matters: BibleLadUK has about 7,100 subscribers and produced 170 baptisms. I have spent a career on audience. Reach is not the variable. The ask was.
CBN·
Philip Falk Azevedo says the most punk thing a young Swede can do now is carry a Bible. Confirmation classes fill in 24 hours. CBN filmed lake baptisms. SVT reported a youth-trend survey naming Jesus as a guiding authority.
Why it matters: A country that emptied its churches now has confirmation classes filling in 24 hours. Hunger showed up where secularism was supposed to have won.
JubileeCast·
I have been watching what God is doing on college campuses this year, and Lakeland keeps coming up. In February, students at Southeastern stayed in Bush Chapel about ten days. In September, SEU Worship released Found in the Field, recorded live in that chapel.
Why it matters: A thirteen-track live album cut in a chapel is a production story. The air in the chapel is on the tape.
Marche pour Jésus France·
About 70,000 people marched in Paris on June 6, 2026. The 2025 nationwide total was about 60,000. Youth were the strong core. The next Paris date is Saturday, June 5, 2027.
Why it matters: A capital of 70,000 against a nationwide 60,000 the year before is organic growth. I have spent a career watching how crowds form.
Liberty Champion·
The Liberty Champion reports that Liberty's Office of Spiritual Development made What Would Jesus Do? this semester's Campus Community theme. Josh Rutledge pairs 1990s neon and bracelets with a harder aim: become who God created you to be. Liberty's total academic year enrollment exceeds 140,000, residential and online. In a Champion video interview, Rutledge said the first two weeks already brought salvations and convicted decisions.
Why it matters: A question that peaked on youth-group wristbands is now a semester at Liberty. I was inside that bracelet era. Campus Community is a Lynchburg Wednesday night of about 16,000 residential students.
George Fox University·
George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon, launched two free public AI courses that teach how the tools work and how Christians should use them. AI Basics: Fluency & Discernment and AI Advanced: Leadership & Wisdom each run five self-paced modules and end with a certificate of completion.
Why it matters: Barna finds many Christians and pastors already using AI in prayer and Bible study, while few pastors feel ready to teach about it. A university putting theology inside the skill-building is the discipleship gap WWJD.COM exists to name.
CBS Minnesota·
CBS Minnesota features Pulse Evangelism founder Nick Hall, who says Gen Z is hungrier and more spiritually open than recent generations and may be leading a wider American revival. Instability, he argues, is driving young people back toward sacred hope that lasts.
Why it matters: If young people are leading a return to faith, WWJD.COM exists to help that hunger become daily discipleship with Jesus, Scripture, prayer, and community.
Fox News·
On a recent Fox & Friends segment, co-host Steve Doocy walked the halls of Watermark Community Church in Dallas to see why so many young adults are filling the room midweek, not only on Sunday.
Why it matters: WWJD.COM points people toward real communities where young adults already seek Jesus, friendship, worship, and biblical teaching.
Barna and Gloo research asks a question many church leaders have only discussed in hallway conversations: do Americans think a spiritual revival is coming soon? The findings suggest a meaningful share of adults say yes, and Gen Z is especially open to that possibility.
Why it matters: WWJD.COM serves people already searching for deeper faith and a clearer path to follow Jesus day by day.
CBN News·
CBN News reports that more than 8,000 college students gathered at the University of Tennessee for a UniteUS campus event centered on seeking God, worshiping Jesus, and responding to the gospel.
Why it matters: A large public university gathering centered on worship, salvation, and baptism shows the hunger WWJD.COM is built to serve: young people seeking Jesus, truth, and community.
RELEVANT Magazine recently asked a question many people in church culture have been circling for years: is it time for a WWJD comeback? Not as a throwback fashion trend, and not as merch for its own sake, but as a serious daily question for people trying to follow Jesus in a loud, reactive world.
Why it matters: WWJD.COM exists to move the question from nostalgia into daily discipleship: Ask the Question - Live the Answer.
Gallup·
Gallup data has long been used to chart declining religious attachment in the United States. A more recent signal cuts against one familiar assumption: that young women would remain the more religious gender while young men drift away. Gallup's 2024-2025 data show young men now surpassing young women in saying religion is "very important" in.
Why it matters: Renewed faith interest among young men strengthens the case that spiritual hunger is rising in public life, not fading away.
Fox News·
Fox News reports that Christian media is playing a major role in how young people reengage faith, not by replacing church, but by meeting them in the formats they already use every day.
Why it matters: The WWJD.COM SuperApp helps turn digital faith interest into daily discipleship through Scripture, prayer, and community.
Crosswalk reports that 4,500 college students filled Tallahassee's Donald L. Tucker Civic Center for a UniteUS campus event at Florida State University, a night marked by worship, gospel preaching, public response, and baptism.
Why it matters: Campus revival is visible and active. WWJD.COM walks with people learning to follow Jesus where they already are.
Christianity Today reports a striking turn in a story many assumed was only going one direction: Bible reading and Bible interest are rising among younger adults, including Gen Z and millennials who grew up in a digital-first world.
Why it matters: Ask the Question - Live the Answer naturally points people back to Scripture as the source for how Jesus lived.
CBS News·
CBS News coverage of Baptize America puts a public, watery face on a quiet trend many churches have been watching: younger people, including Gen Z and young men, making visible commitments to Jesus after years of cultural drift and pandemic disruption.
Why it matters: Renewed Christian commitment is showing up in public acts of faith, not only private belief.
Religion News Service covered a CBN documentary titled The Revival Generation: Gen Z Turning to Jesus, a film that tries to reframe how the public talks about young adults and faith. Instead of only anxiety, isolation, and decline, the documentary highlights campus revivals, worship gatherings, and baptisms connected to the UniteUS movement.
Why it matters: This frames Gen Z faith as a story of meaning, purpose, and hope, which aligns with WWJD.COM’s focus on daily discipleship.
