Passion ‘07 in Atlanta comes to a close
Passion 07 came to a close in downtown Atlanta last Thursday afternoon. Though more than 22,000 college students made their way home and Passion Conferences began looking at future gatherings to reach students around the globe, a legacy of compassion and mission-minded purpose was left behind.
Speaking to students at the gathering’s closing, Passion Conferences founder/director Louie Giglio said, “Colossians 1:6 says, ‘All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit.’ The same changing power in your lives is working all over the world. This gospel is bearing fruit and growing, and we can see that in what you’ve done through the Do Something Now campaign.”
Passion 07 set a goal for individual students and student groups to raise $500,000 for global aid through its Do Something Now campaign. As the Global Awakening: The World Mobilization Area officially closed in the Georgia World Congress Center Thursday, students and groups had pledged over $700,000 toward various global initiatives.
Even as Passion 07 asked students throughout the gathering to consider global impact, Giglio announced that Passion Conferences was thinking globally. “Passion didn’t set out to do 40 years of conferences because we’re not in the conference business,” he said. “We are praying for an explosion in the lives of this student generation.”
Giglio announced that in place of one four-day conference in January 2008, Passion Conferences is planning smaller gatherings similar to the four-day conference format in cities around the U.S. for Fall 2007 and Early Winter 2008. “At these larger four-day gatherings, like Passion 07, a majority of students come from neighboring states,” said Giglio. “From there, students trickle in from more distant states like California or Massachusetts. Passion wants to get closer to the students who haven’t had a chance to experience this gathering.”
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