CRU 19

 Josh McDowell- New Evidence talk

Every second year, Cru holds a worldwide staff training meeting in Ft. Collins, CO at CO State Uni. For at least the 2^nd year in a row, our part of Cru ministry, Faculty Commons, held a conference for local Christian profs, and a second meeting the next day for all our ministry staff.

      After 2 days of intense meetings, we started Cru 19.  Every day the meetings started at 0930, which allowed for a pretty relaxed morning. The Morning meeting was done by noon or a bit later, and then we had lunch break. At 1:30 PM we had smaller seminars and workshops until about 5 PM. Then from 7 PM until almost 10 PM we had another large group session. Cru 19 lasted 7 days and between us we missed a total of one-half of one session. Which is to say, we wore ourselves out!

We heard a lot of great speakers, sang some great worship songs, and learned some new stuff. But our greatest joy was in seeing so many good friends. As well as US friends, we saw friends from Africa, friends from Europe, friends from Central America, friends from South America. We made a new friend from South Asia and saw friends HEADED to Eastern Asia. Some friends we hadn’t seen in 6 years.
     My favorite part was feeling like we were ONE BIG FAMILY.  As an extrovert, it was great to greet and meet people working in different ministries. In the workshops and seminars, my mind was stimulated as to HOW we could use that info in our ministry to Profs and staff.
     Thanks for making Cru 19 possible by your prayers and financial support.  We worked very hard, did it very cheaply, and benefited greatly.

      

Here are some Faculty Colleagues we invited to Cru 19 in hopes they would consider joining our staff as Fellows (shile still teaching) or as Affiliates (after retirement).  It was GREAT to meet these fine folks.