What is Carry the Love?

CARRY THE LOVE TOUR 2020.

As many of you know, I'm currently a part of a worldwide university tour called Carry The Love, a campaign to inspire a generation to love like Jesus. We have over 15 squads across the world from New York to Prague who are traveling as evangelists from campus to campus to exclaim the good news and give students the opportunity to choose freedom in Christ. Our teams consist of about 14 to 18 worship leaders and communicators who are passionate about seeing kingdom culture on college campuses and universities. We do this through the event of Carry The Love, which is split into two days of fellowship, worship, teaching, and activation.

Our days are structured as follows:

DAY ONE

1. TEAM MEETING - Our whole team will meet after breakfast to pray and ask Holy Spirit what needs to be interceded for the current school that we are serving. This is us basically just asking God what the students on the campus need breakthrough in. Some answers looked like depression, anxiety, rape culture, self-hatred, complacent Christianity, torment of the mind, anger, or maybe just a general lack of direction in their lives. We will pray over whatever those things might be, and then pray for a REPLACEMENT in their lives where those strongholds had previously existed. For example, replacing depression with identity and or purpose, or replacing anxiety with peace of mind and comfort in Jesus Christ.

2. EVANGELISM ON CAMPUS - After gathering in prayer, our squad will hop in our vans and head to campus to meet our student hosts and evangelize before our event that night. Showing up at a school for the first time is always such a great feeling and I could never not just get excited about what I knew God would do that night. After rallying together, we will split into smaller groups and walk the campus praying for the school, talking with students, and evangelizing to whoever the Lord puts on our heart. This is almost always where we see the craziest miracles and breakthroughs in people's lives. We have already seen broken ankles healed and spines align just from being bold enough to ask a random student if they need prayer. GOD IS SO GOOD, and He always goes with us whenever we step out in faith.

3. SET UP - After evangelism, our venue for the night (a lecture hall, theater, or common area, etc.) will be available for us to start loading in all of our equipment and supplies for Carry The Love! This includes an entire sound system, guitars, a drum kit, keys, microphones, tons of power cords and cables, mic stands, merchandise and books to sell, a projector and screen, and most importantly: THE FLAG. We try to set up everything as quickly as we can so that the band can sound check and then the whole team can gather and pray once more over the night before it begins.

4. CARRY THE LOVE - THE NIGHT BEGINS. This includes an introduction as to who we are and how the night will go, worship (I play keys!), healing call (we offer to pray for healing, and get the students to pray for healing for each other - because it's not the Circuit Riders that bring healing, it's Jesus!), a message of freedom(usually given by Evan Krause, one of my incredible tour leaders), a salvation call, sometimes a call to action (practically carried out by raising our shoes above our heads - to signify us, Circuit Riders and students alike, carrying the love of Jesus!), and then we end with more worship. During both worship sets, those of us that aren't in the band go around praying for students as the Lord leads us! After worship, we go into a time of announcements to let anyone who responded have to opportunity to get plugged into community through either our Catalyst Network or a group already on their campus.

Our goal for these nights is NEVER to just show up, sing a few songs, cultivate a "cool" moment, and then just go to the next college. Our hearts burn for revelation and revival to awaken our own generation to the reality that they are unconditionally loved by a Father and a King. If we aren't showing up every night and putting it all on the line to see students freed from bondage and getting encountered by the Gospel, then there's no reason for us to even show up. These nights are saving lives and creating missionaries almost every night. These nights are creating space for God to move like I have never seen before. This is how we carry the love, and how God is raising up a generation to carry it too.

5. TEAR DOWN - At this point, most of us are usually still praying for/exchanging numbers with students or getting wrecked by God's love in a corner somewhere, but for those of us who aren't, we start the process of packing up everything and getting to the vans. After everything is mostly loaded back up, our whole team, along with our student hosts, will circle up and thank God for everything that He did that night, as well as talk about specifics for our Day Two. From there, we just head back to our host homes to try and get as much rest as possible before another full day.

DAY TWO

1. EVANGELISM WITH STUDENTS - Students that signed up for the Catalyst Network the night before, and others that just want to spread Jesus, come meet us for lunch and to do evangelism on the campus once more. Same as the day before, we continue to be just really leaning into the leadership and guidance of the Holy Spirit, and carrying out the Lord's work while also displaying a lifestyle to the students that could be totally new to them.

2. BRAVE LOVE & MEN WHO LEAD - These are our men's and women's gatherings where, after blazing the campus all day, we split up and go even deeper together in two separate sessions. Both sessions are based on the book of Judges. Brave Love focuses on chapters 4 & 5 and follows the story of Deborah, while Men Who Lead zeroes in on Gideon in chapters 6,7, and 8. This time always sees so much fruit, freedom, and usually gives students a sneak peek into their calling, which is always an honor to witness and be a part of.

3. CATALYST NIGHT - So catalyst night is super cool, mostly because it is completely interactive. Its whole purpose is to bring students' visions, in terms of seeing revival on campus/in their town, into practical fruition. Students and Circuit Riders exchange ideas that the students could carry out once we've left their school. This ideas could look like worship gatherings, Brave Love or Men Who Lead small groups, weekly evangelism (both on campus and off), prayer burns, or weekly intercession. In Canada, we had a catalyst night where several students had the vision to fill entire stadiums for worship and the Gospel of Jesus Christ to be preached! We inspire and remind students that nothing - no financial burden, no schedule miscommunication - is too big for God, and if He wants to move in a stadium or in a small group, He will.

AND that concludes the base model of what Carry The Love looks like on a college campus. Like I said, we have about 15 different teams hitting hundreds of schools worldwide. Atheist students are getting healed and are turning to the Father. Students with childhood wounds and trauma are finding restoration and true love in Jesus Christ. God is moving, not just across our nation, but across the world. We would be crazy to close our eyes and fall asleep while God is calling us to wake up and serve the Kingdom, reach the lost, and ultimately carry His love.

TO LEARN MORE: crmovement.com | @crmovement + @carrythelove