Robyne Dunlap

God’s Call to Holiness

God is moving at Pinecrest. In the weeks before Christmas recess, repentance was a primary theme of Chapels and classes, and students, staff, and faculty returned to Pinecrest for the Week of Prayer January 7-10 with excitement and expectation at what God had in store for the new year.

Week of Prayer speakers included Pinecrest President Jack Picataggi, who shared on “The Generation of the Lord,” and Dean Joanne Picataggi, who spoke on God raising a prophetic voice at Pinecrest. Students also came forward to share prayers, scriptures, and testimonies of what God was revealing to them and doing in their lives.

Alumnus Robyne Dunlap spoke at the Thursday meetings, bringing a message based on Psalm 24. She urged Pinecrest to continue yielding to God in repentance, then to move on to God’s call to holiness. “Repentance wipes the slate clean,” she said, “but choices establish you in holiness. Choices—minute by minute, day by day, choosing to walk in holiness.”

Robyne noted that the students’ willingness to lay down secret issues and hidden things in repentance had caught God’s attention. “He’s looking to you,” she said, “to be an example in the earth, that He can point to and say, ‘This—Pinecrest—is called to be the generation of them that seek My face.’”

Robyne issued a challenge to “Open the Gates in 2008,” asking, “Are you willing to take the next step to be the generation that seek His face, that lay down your lives, that welcome and want holiness at any cost, that throw open the gates to your heart?” Students, staff, and faculty responded to the call with a time of prayer.

Joanne Picataggi commented, “The Lord has asked us the question, ‘Will you host the Lord and His revival?’ Robyne came, not knowing this, and said, ‘The Lord says He asked the question because He knew what the answer would be.’ With all our hearts, we at Pinecrest, especially the students, want to answer this with our lives.”