Lawrence Chewning

A testimony by Lawrence Chewning on the 50th anniversary of the Anderson, Indiana "Revival of Love".   

My life was radically changed by a spiritual awakening in Indiana during my junior year of college. I had moved from South Carolina to Anderson, Indiana in late summer, 1967, in order to attend Anderson College (now Anderson University). I had felt a calling to preach since I was ten years old, so my plan was to go to college for four years, earn a degree in Social Work and Religion, and then to go on…

This month is the fiftieth anniversary of the Asbury Revival, the move of the Holy Spirit that revolutionized my life in 1970. Here is a song I wrote many years later, which is a reminder of our great need for more of Him and for a fresh wave of revival and spiritual awakening in this present day. It was recorded in the summer of 2004 at the Off Center  
Garage in Muncie, Indiana.

February is always a landmark month on my spiritual calendar.  

Fifty years ago this month my life was revolutionized forever. On February 3, 1970, a spontaneous spiritual awakening occurred on the campus of Asbury College (now Asbury University), in Wilmore, Kentucky. What happened there provided the spark for numerous revivals all over America and touched my life deeply three weeks later in Anderson, Indiana.  

A small group of students at Asbury, a religious college near Lexington, Kentucky, with roots…