Tens of thousands of young people in Liberia are turning to Jesus Christ, as a student revival sweeps through schools across the West African nation.

According to the FORGE ministry, 45,000 students have come to faith in Christ over the past year through its church-based evangelism and discipleship program. A team of evangelists trained by the ministry has carried the Gospel from town to town, school to school, and the response, the ministry reports, has been overwhelming.

The work began in November 2025, when about 400 believers from across Liberia gathered for a time of training. Out of that gathering, 28 young men and women were equipped to take the Gospel into schools and colleges. Their labors, FORGE reports, resulted in tens of thousands of students making decisions to follow Jesus in 2026.

Evangelist Charlie Marq, president of FORGE, told CBN's Christian World News program that the key to what is happening is simple: God chooses and uses ordinary people. The ministry's Multiplying Movements initiative pairs evangelism with intentional follow-up and discipleship, training local believers to share their own faith rather than depending on outsiders to do it for them.

Marq said the spiritual hunger among Liberia's students is unmistakable. “Hearts are open to Jesus like never before,” he said. He described this younger generation as both the most anxious generation ever seen and, at the same time, the most spiritually open — young people whose foundations are shaking and who know they need something more than what they have now.

One testimony Marq shared tells of a young Muslim girl who came to faith in Christ, was baptized the next day, and at once began boldly sharing her new faith with others — walking straight up to a group of men on a dirt road to tell them what Jesus had done for her. “When they encounter, not an idea, but a Living God, Jesus Himself, everything changes,” Marq said.

FORGE reports that the same kind of fruit is appearing beyond Liberia as well, including a young man in Somalia who had been recruited to become a suicide bomber and was reached with the Gospel. And the signs of awakening are not limited to Africa: CBN also points to hundreds baptized in the freezing waters of England, thousands turning to Christ in Germany, and tens of thousands marching for Jesus through the streets of Paris.

What is happening in Liberia is a reminder that revival does not begin with the famous or the powerful. It begins when ordinary believers, equipped and sent, open their mouths and tell their neighbors about Jesus — and when young hearts, weary of a world that cannot satisfy them, discover that the Living God is near.