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(in brief)
- Tuesday Night Fellowship started
with two NU students (David Drake, a senior and Lisa Rushing, a
freshmen), they decided to get together one Tuesday night to pray for
their friends and the campus in general.
- They met at one of Drake’s
favorite study spots: the top floor Arthur Anderson Hall, home of the
Kellogg Graduate School of Management. It was the highest point on
campus, and the closest to the heavens.
- As Drake and Rushing invited
more friends to come and pray, the hallway they met in became too
small for the group. The students mixed songs with their prayers,
and sometimes someone would share a message. By the end of the year, about
30 students met for the weekly prayer meeting. It wasn't an official ministry;
it didn't even have a name, and many of the students were involved in
other campus ministries.
- TNF grew beyond to include
non-Christians, because people thought it was a cool thing to come to. The
students didn’t sit around and talk about "salvation and the blood of
the lamb, we were just real people talking about religion and what
it is like to be Christians on this campus.” It’s a legacy that
continues in TNF today.
- There were a million
places running Bible studies, but not a lot of places that were talking
about real life issues and bringing faith into them. “We never
put a single sign up or put an announcement in the paper for TNF. You
didn’t come to TNF on your own. You came if a friend invited you, a friend
who was part of your life and who wanted to share their faith.”
- But the ministry that started
as a couple of friends praying for their campus continues its mission: to
spread Christianity at Northwestern. “At one point,” Rushing said, “Dave
and I asked each other, what if we come back in five years and people were
still here praying?” It’s been fourteen years so far, and we’re
still praying J.
*For
the complete story on TNF's history, read this article written
by By Beth Kormanik and published Dec. 3, 1999: