I went to Argentina [on Harvest Evangelism's Overseas Transformation Mission] with my dad the summer before my sophomore year of high school. While there, I realized that Jesus died for my school and I needed to reclaim it for Him. A hunger was birthed in me that wouldn't be satisfied until the Kingdom of God came to Millbrook High School.
My dad and I began prayer-walking the school and welcoming the Holy Spirit to change it. It was notorious for gangs and violence, but when we began prayer-walking, the gang population began to decrease to only two, and suspensions for fighting went from 120 to 16 in two years!!!!
There was a shift in the spiritual climate so that people were open to receive prayer. I was sitting in class reading my Bible and a girl spontaneously began sharing how she needed to read her Bible because she was into some situations that were not good and she wanted to be delivered from them. I had only talked to this girl twice before! I asked her if I could pray for her and she said okay, so we did, in the middle of our first period class. Later, I asked how she was doing and she replied that the temptation was leaving! I asked if there was anything else I could pray about and she asked for prayer for the coming exams. I was shocked to see that she then grabbed the entire class that was standing in a circle waiting for me to pray! I began to pray for our class and exams and repented for how bad we had acted towards our teacher, who then began to weep. The presence of the Lord was there!
We began to meet every morning to pray before school, bless the campus and encourage one another. Even agnostic, Muslim, and Jewish students started to come. They were attracted to what we had, and transformation was happening in their lives. I was able to lead a fellow football teammate to the Lord and even some teachers began leading students to the Lord in this kind of environment!
One of the most amazing testimonies was that of our cafeteria. For as long as Millbrook has existed, there has been segregation of African Americans and Caucasians in the cafeteria. The African Americans would all sit on the upper level and all the Caucasian students would sit on the lower level. This summer, as we prayer-walked the campus, the Lord pounded in our hearts the need for UNITY! Our cafeteria was physical evidence of the lack of unity.
One day, my friend Marta, who is an African American student, was with us and I repented to her for the prejudice, judgment and segregation that Caucasians have shown towards African Americans in our school. Then she repented on behalf of the African Americans to me! I felt something break spiritually, but I didn't know to what extent until the first day of school when I went to the cafeteria to see, for the first time ever, COMPLETE UNITY!!! There were Asians, Hispanics, Caucasians, African Americans mixed EVERYWHERE! It was amazing to see how God broke down the wall of segregation!
I am graduated now but stuff is still happening at Middlebrook. It will never be the same…and neither will I!
Adam Walton
Raleigh, NC
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