In 1998, Dana Hernandez enrolled at the University of Georgia (in Athens, Georgia) as a freshman from Summerville, South Carolina. She made the move to Athens because she had heard about the party scene and that there are more than 100 bars within a square mile right next to campus. But the Lord directed Dana to a Wednesday evening service at UGA’s Wesley Foundation during one of the first weeks of that fall semester. She heard the gospel in a way that led her to give her life to God.

Throughout her college years, Dana continued attending Wesley and was discipled by the leadership there. After graduation, she spent a year as an intern at Wesley, building the freshman ministry, inspired by her own experience as a freshman. But Dana also sensed that there was more that the Lord wanted to do on campus and in Athens. She began to work with a group initiating a new ministry called Tribe Issachar and a 24/7 prayer room in the heart of downtown Athens. There, day and night students pray to God that He would bring revival and become real in the lives of the people there.

Now Dana networks with campuses all over the U.S. Southeast to facilitate 24/7 prayer, encouraging student bodies to pray without ceasing – to emulate the watchmen in Isaiah 62 who “will never be silent, day or night, [who] call upon the Lord, give themselves no rest and give him no rest,” and the persistent widow in Luke 18, to whom the Lord hears and brings justice.