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Reaching High Schoolers
25 students at our local high school invited Jesus into their hearts a few weeks ago! That was about 1/4 of the students who attended the first Cru outreach of the year led by Cru High School missionary, Carlos. Since then, we’ve been discussing the possibility of teaming up with the school’s gaming club… Read more
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Finishing Well
On the 29th of this month, we were saddened to hear that Steve Douglass went home to be with the Lord. Steve became the second president of Campus Crusade for Christ in the year 2000, after having served with founder Bill Bright for over 30 years. Dr. Bright said that Steve, “knows and understands… Read more
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What God’s Been Teaching Us
Karen and I like to teach people to do what we call “stride-of-life ministry.” Sometimes Christians can believe that it is solely up to pastors and vocational missionaries to spread the gospel, or that ministry is something individual Christians do on trips or during events. “Stride-of-life” ministry, though, is the idea that God… Read more
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Strangely Easy to Share
One of the core ways Cru spreads the gospel, and one of the first things we teach Christian students to do, is to walk their campus starting conversations with new people and inviting them to learn about our Lord and Savior. We coach them to never take that conversation where the other person is… Read more
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Innovators for Christ
“One of the greatest dangers for Cru is that we would stop innovation. Cru has always been on the cutting edge, thinking about new ways to do ministry more effectively. If we lose that innovative spirit, we will lose something that is core to our movement. We all need to look for new ways… Read more
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What God’s Been Teaching Us
We’ve recently been introduced to two styles of problem solving: Human-Centered Design (HCD) and Gamification. HCD says to spend a lot of time interviewing the people you’re creating something for, and to involve some of them throughout the whole design process. This process really sees people, their aches, and their hopes; and there are… Read more