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Fasting for a Miracle in Manhattan

November 9, 2009

Manhattan-the heart of New York City and home to Wall Street and America’s cultural and intellectual elite-is also home to the Alliance’s Nyack College Manhattan Campus, where believers are being equipped to take Christ into the culture all over the world.

“It is a gift to understand the times and a revelation to know what we ought to do,” says Michael Scales, president of Nyack College and Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, New York.  In spite of the current tough economic times that have hit the city hard, Scales and Nyack College leaders are trusting God’s call to take on the Goliath challenge of a capital campaign for a permanent Manhattan campus.

President Scales has designated November 11 as “A Day of Prayer and Fasting for the Miracle in Manhattan.” The $70-$100 million project will indeed take a miracle. “It is impossible for us to come up with the resources [for this campaign],” says Scales. “But not for our God.”

With a student body of 1,300 from all walks of life and ethnic backgrounds in rented spaces, and a growing enrollment, the Alliance college has become the most urban and diverse Christian institution of higher education in the world today.  “This university will become a hub of Christian scholarship and espouse community development,” says Scales. “It will become a lighthouse for this city.”

“The Lord is calling on us to leave a legacy of grand scale,” Scales says. “The time is now-the investment is eternal.”

Learn More

Go to Alliance Events link to read more about Nyack College’s prayer for a miracle in Manhattan.