I read an article this month about a Cru staff guy named Ralph. You can read it too at Worldwide Challenge. I know Ralph, but didn’t know he has been working at the University of Idaho with Cru for 36 years. How cool is that?
I thought, “What a great job he has!” I thought “I wonder how many conversations he’s had with students and professors over that time?” I thought about how his supporters and the body of Christ realize how important it is to have someone in place full time on college campuses to engage students and professors to introduce them to Jesus.
It is amazing to me, as I think about it today, that our job exists. We are only able to do this work because of you. I wish we could all see the impact of our work. We’ll never hear all the stories we are a part of helping write.
This summer I assessed the risk of our activity in the country of South Sudan so one of our staff could go help and do some training. I read the following story today. It's very cool that this happened less than two months ago!
In September a small team of staff members and students traveled from Ethiopia to the brand new nation of South Sudan to train eight staff members and 39 volunteers in basic campus ministry and leadership.
Each afternoon we did outreach and in the five days of the training we saw 276 students give their lives to Jesus. By God’s grace the team and trainees established six universities and developed a student leadership team for the city.
I’m hoping you read this before Thanksgiving because we want you to know that when we give thanks, we thank God for you. We can never express the full extent of the gratitude we feel when we consider your faithful and generous partnership with us. If we could write it bigger we would:
Thank you!
“How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy we have in the presence of our God because of you?” Thessalonians 3:9
With gratitude,
Barrett and Dayna
