Seattle's The Stranger on charismatic revival

This article floored me when I read it. The Stranger is Seattle's alternative weekly, and I mean really alternative. So when I saw that they wrote a feature titled "The Young and the Godly: Seattle Is a Secular Bastion, but for How Much Longer?" I was more than a little wary. However, it was a great story about how University of Washington Christians are doing their utmost to spread the Good News of Jesus.

Some background on why this is important to me: God called me to serve Him when I started at the University of Washington. I have really lovely, desparate, and aching memories about U-Hope, which was the name of our student group, one of many on campus. So when I read about current students' efforts, it made me glad to think the Holy Spirit is still working through God's people. (Sorry for all the Christianese in this post.)

From The Stranger article:

"We are praying for the city and for the region. We are praying for unity among churches and for transformation-personal transformation, transformation of family and neighborhoods. We want to see this region become a region that celebrates God's glory," Jain says to me as we sit in the comfortable living room of his family's home high above Lake Washington in Seattle.

He is casually but stylishly dressed, soft-spoken yet earnest. He has no doubts. He knows that God cured the fatal kidney ailment that afflicted him as a teenager, as his sister Sanjeeta knows that God lifted her out of the bottomless pit of self-pity she felt after a car accident left her wheelchair-bound. He knows that God wants him to offer that same miraculous transformational power to others. "From our biblical perspective, Christians are not supposed to be hidden away," he says when I ask him why he feels compelled to proclaim his faith publicly. "Honestly, we believe that a lot of people are Sunday Christians. That doesn't line up to what God wants us to be, what God wants us to do."