Why Call It "Tsunami"?

With all the negative press about physical tsunamis in the past few years, why do we still call the conference "Tsunami"?

Tsunami doesn't really refer to the conference itself. The "tsunami" in Tsunami Student Conference is this generation of students that God has created.

Generational theorists have accurately predicted that this generation will be an outwardly focused generation. They will be community minded. They will want to be change agents in their world. They have been called a generation of heroes much like the generation that overcame the Great Depression and WWII. They could also be the largest generation in history, at 76 million. God has created a huge generation of outwardly focused heroes who may well be the greatest missionary force in history.

There are several other ways that this generation is like a Tsunami.

Tsunamis are caused by a movement of the earth either from an earthquake or volcano. This student Tsunami is caused by a movement of God. Regular waves are caused by the wind, but the wind (or Spirit) of God has created a student Tsunami that is far larger than any regular wave.

Tsunamis travel through the deep waters unnoticed for hundreds of miles. The student Tsunami is also not yet seen, but it will be soon.

It is only when a tsunami comes in contact with shallow water near land that the tsunami becomes visible. As the wave encounters the friction of bottom, it begins to pile up on itself and build in height and strength. As this generation of outwardly focused Christians meets the friction of their culture, I believe their power will begin to build to the point where they will be able to overcome much of the spiritual complacency of their world and push back against culture. Like a physical tsunami, they will change the landscape of the world around them.

So, while physical tsunamis may be destructive, this spiritual Tsunami of students is a force that will be a blessing to this world. That is the Tsunami that the Tsunami Student Conference wants to help build.