A New Normal

Cru's hype video:

Cru weekly meeting hype video from Creative One Media on Vimeo.

Our media team put together this hype video for the beginning of Cru meetings this fall.  I thought we she open our monthly update with it!

Family Together!

We have had a great visit with Cara, Perry, Zeke, Titus and Bowen, and Luke also came down from Virginia so the whole family was together for over a week!  It was wonderful.  

Macy is 18!

On the 7th Macy entered adulthood!  She and Aubrey went to the Harry Styles concert together and had a wonderful time.  She is busy applying for colleges now and we are attempting to complete the FAFSA!

Campus and Unto

This fall Unto and Campus have worked together to provide opportunities for college students to be involved in relieving suffering, restoring dignity, and revealing hope.  One is a drive for school supplies that will be delivered to some of the toughest places on earth to provide access, credibility, and greater effectiveness to our national ministries.  College students will also participate in relief for Hurricane Ida in Louisiana.  These kinds of opportunities allow our campus staff to engage students that might not normally look into Cru.

What are you doing now?

Dayna continues to volunteer at Shepherd's Hope one or two mornings a week, and is the nurse consultant for our Staff Conference next summer.  

I've got a few things I've had my hand in with Cru:

• I continue to lead the project to transform our world headquarter from a cubicle environment to an activity based hybrid/mobile environment.  We are about finished with 1/4 of the headquarters this month...still a long way to go.
• I have helped our Cru City global ministry to assist them in clarifying their strategy for reaching Eastern and Western Europe and Russia.  The timing is good because our global reorganization just combined these areas under new leadership.
• I facilitated Unto's leadership off site to discuss organizational trust.  One of the 5 emphases for Cru globallys is to "move into the missional gap," so we also talked about Unto's role with that emphasis.
• I have been working with one of our HR leaders who is considering what an integrated Talent Management process looks like for Cru...from new staff orientation to retirement.

Thank you for your kindness and faithfulness to allow us to serve with Cru.  There are so many cool things happening around the world that you are impacting.  

Pray for Cru

There are a lot of transitions happening in Cru right now...a global reorganization, new leadership, adjusting to ministry during covid, a HQ under construction, and cultural issues that all of christendom is wrestling with.  Pray for good progress and encouragement for our staff.

Thanks for your partnership with us in helping everyone know someone who truly follows Jesus!