Tucked in the Detroit midtown (our first campus assignment) is The College of Creative Studies (CCS). It is full of liberal, artistic, brilliant people with brilliant minds who stand-out from the crowd. Weekly, Jessi and I would diligently pray, engage students in spiritual conversations (oh, there were some interesting thoughts!), and trusting God to work [...]
You weren't aware (there's SO many good things to share) that last month YOU helped mobilize Matt & Tayler [pictured here] to be full-time CRU missionaries to a closed country in East Asia! Praise God for all He will do through their devotion to make His name great among all peoples. Scott (3 training sessions) [...]
Over the 5 years of mobilizing young missionaries I, Scott, receive updates and reports of changed lives happening through Cru movements in each corner of the world. People are encountering Jesus and growing in Him! These are life-changing stories that you are likely praying would happen in your son, daughter, grandkid, etc. during their college [...]
Pray with our ministry by asking God to raise up 10 million multiplying disciples by 2020 from our ministry. We, as a ministry, pray regularly and labor tirelessly in His energy to help fulfill the Great Commission. Our campus movements experience many setbacks from university administration, foreign policies and more, but these things are not [...]
Don't we (you & us) have an incredible life? We most often don't look as put together as this picture eludes we are and I bet you can also relate, right! We must step back - gain a larger view of life - and realize that we have an incredible life. Jessi and I have [...]
The first 6 weeks of classes are crucial in a college student’s life - you are mobilizing missionaries to be face-to-face with students, bringing them the Gospel. The first week, Cru staff and students work 12-15 hour days, gathering spiritual questionnaires campus-wide. The next five weeks they personally follow up with the thousands of [...]
You are a part of sending a great missionary force from the university to reach the world for Christ. Scott gave training to JT, who’s a recent grad spending the entire school year in this South Asia country working as a one-year missionary reaching out to college students. Here’s his story: “I followed up with [...]
“What comes into your mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” These words penned by evangelical author A.W. Tower more than 50 years ago still ring true today. In July, Scott had the privilege of giving 231 our Cru’s newest missionaries the essential training they needed. In the midst of this, our [...]
We would have rejoiced together, our eyes swelling up with tears, as we read Jessi’s text. It read, “She prayed with me and asked Jesus to never leave her.” Nora, bursting with the excitement, had a very difficult time falling asleep because she wanted to tell Cooper and I about this incredible news. She was [...]
Walking with earbuds blasting and full of dreams while avoiding the turmoil raging in their hearts, students on every university are now teaming with tomorrow’s leaders and we want to get the Gospel within arms reach. Despite the news, students are eager for truth and waiting to accept Jesus into their hearts to resolve the [...]
