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‘Maria’ finds a Hope and a Purpose

Giving Initiative: International Partnerships   In March, twelve American students and professors spent a week in Nicaragua for their spring break with Cru. Working with local volunteers, their primary goal was to find students in multiple cities who were ready to reach the students around them for Christ. In Leon, they held a meeting for […]

‘Our Bible’ – a God appointment on Big Break LA

The conversation started with a scavenger hunt on the first day of Big Break Los Angeles – the challenge was to ask a stranger about something. Bay, a student at Montana State University, drawn by the heavy drum beat and colorful Aztec regalia, stopped to watch a group of dancers in an open city square […]

Discovering Nicaragua

Joseph Roberts, a member of the team and one of their primary translators, kept a detailed record of each day. This is an abridged and edited version of that journal.   We arrived in Leon, Nicaragua, at 1 am. Our hotel is right on the town square, which means we can hear everything that happens throughout the […]

Connections for God’s Kingdom at the 2017 Epic Conference

Regional Giving Initiative: Ethnic Field Ministry conferences Their first moments at the West Coast Epic Conference were overwhelming and disorienting. For Randy, a University of Oregon senior with Korean heritage, it was the crowd of 250 Asian Americans packed into one place. Hannah, also a UO sophomore, felt like she’d stepped into a foreign country. […]

The Elephant on Campus

  The signboard painted with a white elephant stood at a central walkway in the Montana State University campus all week. In bold, black letters, it said “Addressing the Elephant in the Room… How have Christians hurt you?” Each day that week, a group of students wore matching t-shirts with the elephant logo wherever they […]

She met Jesus at 30,000 feet

No one would take her on an international mission trip, “Carrie” told Ralph Cooley, Cru staff with Faculty Commons, during Cru Conference. “Why is that?” he asked. “Because I’m legally blind,” she said. “I’ll take you,” he’d responded.   Three months later, Carrie, a student from Utah, joined the University of Idaho on their spring break […]

Rockwood Knocks

A Cru staff mom and a former drug user share Jesus As Sonya, a Cru staff mom, watched the students fan out across the Rockwood apartment complex in pairs, she turned to her co-leader. This was his neighborhood. This was where he’d done drugs. This was where he’d met Jesus a year ago. Now he was […]

UW Cru shakes their way into campus life

UW Cru set up a camera and music during lunch hour, and invited people passing by to dance. Watch the video: Jaunty notes from Taylor Swift’s hit “Shake it Off” filled the University of Washington walkway during the lunch hour. A student in a blue polka dot dress spun a pirouette in her street shoes […]

God’s real work through an illusion show

Illusionist Jim Munroe performs street magic for students on the Washington State University campus before the evangelistic show “the Maze” that evening. WSU and the University of Idaho brought Munroe’s show to each of their campuses, and saw incredible student response from a wide diversity of students. WSU launched two focus groups for interested students following the outreach. Samantha […]

Something to Believe in

Standing in the crowd of students worshiping a God “Amy” had never believed in, tears began to fall from her eyes, as she realized how much she needed something or someone, who could take the weight of her problems from her shoulders. Lindsey first met “Amy” when she climbed into her car. It was the […]