There are about 180 full time students and almost as many more part time students. Ever since its foundation in 1920 individual, group and community prayer and worship have been an important feature of the community life of the college. The priorities of the college are expressed as 'Knowing, Being and Serving'. As a consequence of this commitment, time is regularly given over to prayer. Students and faculty pray in daily chapel services, in fellowship groups, in lectures, at meal times, in faculty groups, in pairs and room groups on special prayer days and nights, and in prayer cells for specific issues including healing, evangelism, community life and student ministries.
People pray, sometimes with conviction and joy, at other times with doubts and fears.
Continually there are testimonies to the blessing of the Holy Spirit. Prayer is programmed as an important part of college life and God honours that commitment, but on occasions God wants to do something different. A desire for God The recent time of renewal began with the group responsible for preparing for a regular day of prayer. Others had a growing conviction that God's Spirit wanted to move in a new way. A number of people felt a desire for the presence of the Holy Spirit.