Category: Ministry

Faculty Commons is Cru’s ministry to the professors and staff at many college campuses. On their website, www.facultycommons.com, they quote Bill Bright as saying “If I could start Campus Crusade for Christ over again, I would begin by working with professors.” Faculty are incredibly influential in students’ lives. Here is a story from Howie and…

Cru is starting a major overhaul of the Financial and Human Resources systems used by thousands of our staff outside of the US. It will need documentation in at least 8 languages in the next 9 months. Translation will include labels & error messages on the interface, training documents, and scripts for training videos. I…

From all across the United States, 20 students came to the Lake Hart Summer Mission held in Orlando. They worked at Cru’s World Headquarters part-time and participated in outreaches and discipleship part-time. Holly was one of 8 Cru staff members who helped guide the students. Holly met once a week with Shannon (on the left)…

One big reason our missionaries leave the field is they are not getting the care they need. Our Global HR (Human Resources) team offers a website with tools that can help pinpoint the strengths and weaknesses of an individual or a team. It is called the “Global 360” and is designed to be used on…

In March, in cooperation with several “anchor churches”, Cru launched a citywide campaign called Saturate Orlando to distribute evangelistic materials to every home in Orlando. Here is a map from the Saturate Orlando website color-coded by zipcode to show the percentage of saturation. The materials given away included a DVD of the Jesus film in several…

Building and strengthening relationships is one of Holly’s and my priorities for 2018. We have been actively working on strengthening our marriage. I took a “Sharpening Your Interpersonal Skills” workshop in November and plan to take Part 2 in March. Holly is attending a cross-cultural training workshop this week. In February, we at the International Headquarters…

Brandon & Jane (Yu-Chen) Girard are Cru staff members ministering to grad students at the University of Michigan which has 15,000 grad students. Their ministry is called GradCru (GradCru.org). “This Fall, God has done something unprecedented—He has brought numerous international believers to our campus and to GradCru. Many of these believers want to learn ministry…

The MPDX app was written in English for our U.S. staff to keep track of those who support them. Last year Campus Crusade’s ministry in France (called Agape France) was our first language partner. I have been working with Agape France to translate and evaluate the app in French. It will benefit their missionaries as…

For the last several weeks, Cru campus staff members have been praying for the new school year. They are connecting with the student leaders to help plan recruiting, outreaches, and discipleship strategies. The Cru17 conference, as well as other training over the summer, equipped the staff members with the latest tools and strategies. For the…