HBCU Tour

The Need

There is a Crisis in the Black Community: In the areas of family, poverty, crime, incarcaration, education, health, abortion, and spirituality we are facing one of the toughest times we have every faced as a race. There is more fatherlessness than we have ever seen in our family units, poverty has come to an epic level, our young men are being incarcarated, and our inner cities have come to a ruin. Empty houses, drugs, prostitution, and crime fill our inner cities on a day to day basis. Our youth live in a constant fear of their lives being at risk, raising one another and teenage pregnancy has come to a historic rise. And, these are only a few of the major issues we face.

Our statistics are in a dire state in almost every aspect and area of life. But, abortion is the hidden enemy of the African Americans. It is the #1 reason for death in the black community, trumping diseases such as HIV/AIDs and Diabetes. Due to abortion, the death rate is higher than the birth rate in our people group. Black women make up the largest numbers of abortions in the nation even though we are only 14% of the population. Black women also make up the highest level of "unintended pregnancies".

Here are a few other statistics:

79.5% of Black women are obese.
71.8% of Black men are overweight.
Heart disease, cancer and stroke are the top 3 causes of death in the Black community. Diabetes is #4.
The U.S. Graduation Rate is 80.6%, but the Black Graduation Rate is 63.6%.
It is taking longer for black students to finish high school than white youth.
African Americans are in jail for drugs more than any other offence.
Black men and women in prison has declined by more than 20,000 between 2,000 to 2010.
87% of African Americans are affiliated with a religion, 45% are Baptist, 42% are other Christian denominations, and only 83% of all Americans are religious. 79% 'say religion is "very important in their lives"'.*
72% of black households are fatherless**
Only an estimated 250 African Americans work in cross cultural missions full time (out of 34 million)***

The Tour

There is a desperate need for prayer, worship, missions and Biblical teaching in the Black Community. This tour is not just a tour, it's a grass roots movement of black college students praying for an explosion of prayer and missions on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and in Black Churches across America.

This tour is a Cry for God to Send Forth Laborers into the heart of the intercities of America and to the ends of the earth, to raise up an awakening of 24/7 Prayer and Missions in the Black Community. This tour is a Cry for a Marriage of the Creative Arts and Missions Movement; a Uniting of Rap, Dance, Art, Drama, Fashion, Worship and Prayer to finish the Great Commission in this Generation. This tour is a Cry for an Awakening and Revival in the Black Community, the Black segment of the Church and HBCUs. This tour is a Redigging of the Wells of Revival once seen during the Civil Rights Movement. (Click here for more)

During the Freedom's Cry Tour, 30 HBCU Students from Morehouse, Spelman, and Hampton University will visit 65 HBCUs and many Churches on this prayer journey and mission's call. They will tour the following areas:

The First Tour

Date: July 2-6, 2013
To Washington DC

The Second Tour

Date: July 9-13, 2013
To New Orleans LA

The Third Tour

Date: July 22-August 3, 2013
To Miami FL

The Fourth Tour

Date: August 9-18, 2013
To Los Angeles CA

The Tour Finale

Atlanta, GA.

We will stop in over 12 major cities including Atlanta, GA; Birmingham, AL; Montgomery, AL; Hampton Roads, VA; Richmond, VA; Washington, DC; Charlotte, NC; New Orleans, LA; Orlando, FL; Miami, FL; Dallas, TX; and Los Angeles, CA.

The Freedom's Cry Tour Map

Click here for an Interactive Map and List of Colleges & Universities we will tour.

At each stop they will:

1. Pray for HBCUs

2. Pray for the Ending of Abortion

3. Pray for Sanctity of Marriage

4. Pray for a Prayer & Missions Movement in the Black Community.

5. Call the Black Community into Missions

The Tour will then lead up to the Freedom's Cry Stadium Prayer in Atlanta, GA. November 2, 2013.

The Cry

When the children of Israel were in slavery by the Egyptians they cried out to the LORD and He answered by raising up a deliverer named Moses. He used Moses to face Pharoah and lead the people of God to total victory. He completely destroyed their enemies and brought the Israelites to the land He promised their forefathers.

Exodus 2:23-25 During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel---and God knew.

Exodus 2:23-25 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. And God heard their goraning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

God remembers our forefathers that fought for slavery during the Underground Railroad and Abolitionist Movement. He remembers the many college students and pastors that sacrificed during the Civil Rights Movement. And He will remember our sacrificial cry for Freedom.

God wants us to cry out in unity on behalf of our people group:

Joel 2:17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them: why should they say among the people, Where is their God?

On November 2, 2013 we are believing God for 15,000 HBCU students and black youth to gather in Atlanta, GA to prayer and fasting for the Black Community. We will cry out between the porch and the altar, for the spiritual deliverance of African Americans. We will believe God for revival and a massive Great Awakening that will sweep across the youth of this nation! We are calling this prayer meeting, Freedom's Cry.

Will you join us on November 2nd? Will you be a part of the Movement?

Join the Movement

Ways you can get involved:

1. Pray for The Tour

2. Share your Civil Rights Story

3. Follow the Blog & Add Prayer Requests

4. Support by Make a donation (financial or food)

5. Share with others- Get the word out

6. Invite your church to register

7. Come to Freedom's Cry Prayer in November

Ways your church can get involved:

When we are in your area, your church can-