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What if you had the chance to impact the spread of the gospel by engaging with 5,000 missionaries in one week?  What would you want them to know that would cascade down through all their ministries around the nation and the generations of people they will disciple and lead to Jesus?  This is a very… Read more

Doesn’t it make sense that God’s Word and Science would say the same thing?  Karen and I have recently had the great blessing of learning from Caroline Leaf, a Neuroscientist who loves Jesus.  In this video, for example, she has heaps of test results to support what the Bible teaches about our brain, mainly that… Read more

As incredible as those mission trips are in the lives of the almost 3,000 students who attend and those they reach, 95% of our Cru students aren’t able to participate.  Most of them head home for the summer, get jobs and maybe show up at your church.  We have just the thing to help you… Read more

Imagine taking 70 of the most spiritually mature, excited college students from around the country and putting them all in one cheap beach motel (6 to a room on old army cots). All the normal distractions of life are replaced with opportunities for spiritual growth and training in outreach. every moment from waking up until… Read more

Every 4 years, missionaries with Cru are encouraged to take a 30-day “Sabbatical” break from their routine.  I confess that in the 12 years we’ve been on staff, I have not taken this gift, this vital responsibility, seriously.  Until now. Sabbatical comes from the word “sabbath,” the day of rest commanded by God in the Old… Read more