300-Plus Make Decisions for Christ at Belmont as College Revival Continues
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Hundreds of students packed a venue at Belmont University in Nashville this week to celebrate Jesus and hear testimonies of faith during a service that spilled outdoors, where many who had made decisions to follow Christ were then baptized.
It was the latest gathering organized by UniteUS, a college ministry that began at Auburn University in 2023 and brings students together for musical worship and gospel preaching while helping them connect with local churches and campus ministries.
UniteUS told CBN News that 329 people made decisions for Christ Tuesday at Belmont, with many of those declaring their faith through baptism in troughs set up outside the university’s Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. The center seats more than 1,700.
“Hundreds of college students made the decision to go ALL IN with Jesus,” UniteUS visionary Tonya Prewett wrote on Instagram.
“Not halfway. Not holding back. Fully surrendered. This is what happens when a generation says YES to Jesus. We believe this is just the beginning. The best is yet to come! The next generation is not waiting for revival. THEY ARE BECOMING IT.”
The ministry’s official Instagram account also celebrated the night, writing alongside photos of baptisms that “for hundreds of students, ‘the night I gave my life to Jesus’ will forever mean last night in Nashville.”
“Nashville, we’re praying these stories travel. Into classrooms, through friend groups, back home to families,” the ministry said in a statement. “May people who weren’t even in the room come to know Jesus because of what He did here!”
Belmont was the fifth and final stop on the UniteUs fall tour, which began at Pepperdine University in California and continued at the University of Miami, Appalachian State University in North Carolina and the University of South Alabama before wrapping up in Nashville. All the events are free.
Prewett credits local student teams, such as the one at App State, for laying the groundwork for the gatherings.
“The local student team [at App State] there did 40 days of prayer and fasting leading up to the event. They were doing Jericho marches during those 40 days,” she told Air1's Monika Kelly. “And then the day of the event, they did march around it seven times, and did the shout. And I will have to say, they took the city. We had far more students in attendance than we had anticipated. We saw students just get free from so many different things. It was really incredible.”
One testimony at App State stood out to Prewett when —moments before a baptism —a young woman spoke up and said she formerly was an atheist.
“She said, you know, ‘All my life I've been an atheist. I've never believed in Jesus my whole life,’ and she said, ‘I walked into the arena tonight, heard the gospel presentation, and I just had to give my life to Jesus.’ Just so powerful. But we're seeing this all over the nation on these campuses.”
Photo Credit: ©UniteUS
Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
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Originally published November 12, 2026.
