Ashbury University ends nonstop revival worship services after thousands of visitors overwhelm town

Asbury University is ending its nonstop revival worship service after 13 days because the small Kentucky college town was overwhelmed by visitors.

Monday was the last day revival services known as "Outpouring" were open to the public at the private Christian school in the Kentucky city of Wilmore.

The university limited the event to ages 16-25 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings.

"Our town's institutions here and our town's infrastructure. I just want to be clear, [it] is just not in a place to absorb at this moment the influx of the blessed guests that we have had come," Asbury University President Kevin Brown told the crowd at the revival Sunday.

The event began Feb. 8 after some Asbury students stayed after a regularly scheduled church service to pray and worship. They did not stop, and instead, people from "across the world" came to join them in worship, Brown said.

An estimated 50,000 worshipers have come to the revival at Ashbury University over the past few weeks, according to Religion News Service.