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Katie in Greece!

2011-11-28T12:59:00.001-08:00

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Fall Getaway

2011-11-28T12:52:00.001-08:00

Every year once the weather starts to grow cool, we give our students the opportunity to join us for a weekend, to leave all their studies and academic activities behind. I’m always amazed at the significant value this weekend holds for our students to grow spiritually, build meaning relationships with other believers, and have lots of fun while recharging their batteries. As time continues on and the culture of students continues to change, this weekend seems to become more valuable and meaningful. Often students don’t recognize this until they experience it. During the school year, they are so busy with class work and all the electronic “toys” and social media that they can float through school without taking time to connect with God or with other people. Our theme for the weekend was “go green,” with talks centered around “reduce, renew, recycle,” taking a look at connecting with God, walking in Spirit, and taking your faith back to campus.

Fall Photos

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Cru Spring Semester highlights

2011-05-13T11:29:00.000-07:00

Paige turns one!

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We rallied CRU students to join forces with a campus wide service project to serve the Lawrence community. Not even bad weather stopped our clean-up!

Haiti Meals @ DCC video

2011-01-28T14:59:00.000-08:00

DCC Pictures

2011-01-28T14:47:00.001-08:00

These are just a quick few pics from DCC. Check out our newsletter on the right column to read more about all that happened!

CCC Chili Miners story with KU connection

2010-10-21T22:39:00.000-07:00

As some of you may know, our Campus Crusade for Christ international partnership was with Chili for many years. About two years ago we were able to pass the ministry over to local Chileans who were raised up through our ministry! The world watched the past week as these Chili miners were rescued. Here is a CNN story about the Campus Crusade - Jesus Film t-shirts they were wearing when they were rescued. Copy & paste the link below to your browser to read the story.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/14/the-story-behind-the-chilean-miners-jesus-t-shirts/

Fall Break trip to see Family & Friends through Illinois

2010-10-21T22:37:00.000-07:00

Fall Getaway 2010

2010-10-21T22:26:00.000-07:00

The KU Fall Getaway was another HUGE success this year. We had a lot of fun and our students had an amazing, life changing weekend. To hear more about the weekend, check out our latest newsletter, but here are a few pictures!

Fall Photos with Paige

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Paige baby pictures taken by Aunt Kathryn

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Paige Elizabeth Stetson - 4/21/10

2010-05-17T17:38:00.000-07:00

iEmpathize Walk/Run 5k

2010-05-06T12:16:00.001-07:00

Towards the end of April Cru hosted a 5k Walk/Run on campus at KU. Our Community Outreach team did a great job organizing, planning, and recruiting for the event to make it a huge success and raise money for iEmpathize. iEmpathize is an international organization that works to abolish child sex trafficking and exploitation. Child trafficking is when children are recruited through force, deception or kidnapping, and transported within their country or across borders in order to be exploited. United Nations Children’s Fund estimates that the number of children affected each year is around 1.2 million. The estimated total market value of illicit human trafficking is $32 billion. More information is available at their website: www.iempathize.org.

Spring Cru Campout

2010-05-06T12:00:00.000-07:00

Denver Christmas Conference 2010

2010-02-04T12:02:00.000-08:00

Greg, one of many students who experienced God's glory and saw life change, had this to say:

“I see God’s glory in my wounds and how God heals those wounds. I can rejoice in Him because I am washed white as snow through His death on the cross. I feel like God has restored my soul and ripped Satan’s grasp on my heart.”

Chaz Steele, from the University of Kansas, spent time completing seemingly miniscule tasks for a local children’s ministry. But, after spending time with a young boy there and hearing how he had recently accepted Christ into his life, Chaz was overwhelmed at the opportunity he had to serve there and bring glory to God through that experience.

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Fall Getaway 09

2009-10-21T11:54:00.000-07:00

A few photos from the weekend...

A recap video from the weekend...

Long Beach Summer Project

2009-07-10T08:27:00.000-07:00

Here is a recap video of the first week students arrived.

Cru fundraiser - Allen Fieldhouse Clean-up

2009-03-17T13:47:00.000-07:00

A group of about 25-30 Cru students came met up at the Allen Fieldhouse after the final KU women's basketball game of the year. Our task, to clean the entire gym! We had to sweep, mop, scrub, remove gum, empty the trash, and loads of other tasks. The fundraiser was an opportunity to raise a little money for our students to spend on social events and have a small budget for our weekly meetings. It was a very very long night; I didn't get home until 3:30 in the morning! When we finally cleaned the entire place, the inspection took a long time but eventually we passed it and all went home.

CRU weekly meeting - Love(ing) Month

2009-03-11T09:38:00.000-07:00

As an annual tradition, we spend the month of February doing a series of talks at our weekly meeting based around relationships. We call it love month, based around Valentines Day. This year we shook it up a bit. Rather than having a speaker every week, we had everyone break up into discussions groups. Every week we had a different topic and some Biblical passages to go along with it. The series was based around loving other, loving ourselves, and loving God. Below are a few pictures.

xTeam Leadership Retreat

2009-02-25T13:17:00.000-08:00

Every year, near the start of the spring semester, we hold a retreat for all of our student leaders. This year our new directors Jeff & Rebecca Burgess graciously hosted around 30 staff and students at their home. Our hope for this retreat was to gather all of our leaders together (both Greek Impact leaders and CRU leaders) to help them bond and build relationships with each other, encourage them in their walks with the Lord & their service to their peers, spend time in the Word to gain insight and vision for what God is doing, and hear their ideas on how to help the Gospel go out to every student at KU. Below are a few pictures taken during the retreat.

Super Bowl disaster…

2009-02-24T20:26:00.001-08:00

As most everyone in America knows, Iowa’s beloved Kurt Warner and the Arizona Cardinals came up just short in the Super Bowl. I’m not sure if Kurt will make it into the NFL Hall of Fame, but he’s certainly my favorite active player. Growing up I had the chance to listen to him on the radio lead UNI Panthers through the playoffs, watch him at old Vet’s Auditorium carry his Arena League Iowa Barnstormers to a championship, then resurrect his career with the Rams in an MVP season. So sad to see his season end in heartbreak, but hopefully he’ll get one more shot next year!

On a way more serious note, my Super Bowl Sunday turned into a little bit of a disaster. Cru here at KU has a long standing tradition of putting together a giant tackle football game in the afternoon, and then a huge watch party for the game. I love the chance to spend time rubbing shoulders with our guys, so of course I joined in. Half way through the game, I was tackling and bringing down the ball carrier when my teammate Adam came to help finish off the play. Unfortunately for me, he’s a huge dude and on the Rugby team here at KU. I ended up at the bottom of the pile with my face getting planted into the frozen dirt turf. As you can see from the pics below, my face didn’t turn out so hot! No major damage, I was able to get back up and finish the game. The saving part of the story is that the very next play I made a tackle and stopped a trick reverse play that saved a touchdown. After I went home my adrenaline wore off, and I was in significantly more pain, and Katie was very surprised to see my face. I am happy to report that my recovery is going very well.

Denver Christmas Conference '09

2009-02-04T12:23:00.001-08:00

During the first week of January, 1,400 staff and students from seven states gathered to worship the King and to grow in their relationship with Him during the Denver Christmas Conference (DCC). Students heard from passionate speakers, took part in a variety of seminars, were exposed to the needs of the nations, and learned about summer mission opportunities around the world. Students took part in the Day of Faith where we partnered with churches and local community groups to embody the good news of the kingdom by meeting the physical and spiritual needs of Denver residents. Students came back with amazing stories of how they saw God moving and the excitement of being a part of such a big outreach. Below is a video clip from a local NBC station covering the event.

Here are some great pics of things taking place at DCC!

Fall family photo

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