Giving Initiative: Rockwood Knocks One Saturday a month, Cheri pulls into an empty lot, her trunk filled with stuffed animals she’s collected. She’s here with other volunteers from local churches to hand out free tamales and pray for people. And she’s discovered that stuffed animals are as much in demand as the locally made tamales. […]
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. […]
Students surrendered to God … “I want to do the Lord’s will, and give my whole life to the one who gave it to me.” “FEAR” “I want to give up my inability to open up. Lord you show me grace and love, lead me in the way and give me strength to TRUST wholly […]
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 […]
