Orlando High School Revival

God is moving among Orlando, Florida’s Generation Alpha (children born since 2010).  According to a 2024 survey by OneHope, one-third of Generation Alpha have never read a single verse of Scripture, but 73% of them would attend a Christian gathering if invited.

Cru® High School ministry in Orlando is experiencing this reality, with over 1,000 students from 17 different campuses participating in their activities every week. This is an increase from 13 campuses last year.

According to Cru High School team leader Justin Yates, “We’ve NEVER seen this kind of openness before among high school students!”

At Timber Creek High School during fall 2025, several students boldly wore cardboard testimonies around their necks all day, which resulted in numerous spiritual conversations with other students and faculty.

At Lake Howell High School, a student named Jane shared about losing her mother to cancer, and about how much comfort she received through her relationship with Jesus. Other students told their own stories of journeying with Jesus and how anyone can begin that journey by acknowledging their sins and saying yes to Jesus’ offer of forgiveness and a personal relationship with Him. Thirty students heard the gospel message and came to faith in Christ as a result.

At Innovation High School’s first fall weekly meeting (held over two lunch periods), so many students showed up that they ran out of seating, and more students kept coming. Student leaders shared with the standing-room-only crowds how they encountered Jesus and how others could too. By the time both lunch periods ended, more than 250 students attended, with 59 inviting Christ into their lives.

Recently, at Toho High School, their first lunchtime outreach of the spring semester had to relocate to the gymnasium for the first lunch period, and the choir room for the second lunch period.  So many students showed up for each event that there were no seats — standing-room-only.  Over 350 students heard the gospel of Christ.

In the first six weeks of the 2025-2026 school year, the Cru High School staff team saw 285 middle school and high school students come to Christ.  “That’s more students in the first six weeks than in all of last year,” Justin says. Two recent outreaches had 500 students attend, with 104 indicated commitments to Christ, and their annual FastBreak winter conference (for Florida and Georgia students) had 194 students with at least 18 indicated decisions for Christ.

Justin’s local staff team of only 20 is really challenged to follow up so many interested students. Pray with them for more volunteer laborers who would most effectively connect with students: college students, who are just a few years older, and senior citizens, who are non-threatening. “If we’re going to reach every student,” Justin says, “we need volunteers from every age, gender, and ethnicity.”

“This generation is not only the most open to learning about Jesus,” says Justin, “they’re also eager to share about Him with their peers and their families, so reaching them means reaching those around them, too. You can choose your own volunteer adventure. It can be as simple as coming once a week to hand out pizza at our weekly meeting or more in depth, like hosting a discipleship group or helping at weekend conferences, where students often experience six months of growth in three or four days.”

Join Justin and his team in praying for all of Orlando’s middle and high school students, and that God raises up laborers of all ages for this harvest field. If you live in Orlando, consider joining them by going to:  https://campus.cru.org/high-school/orlando/contact/