As recent news has revealed, Campus Crusade for Christ will be officially changing their name in 2012 to cru. The process of changing the ministry name was officially begun by the insisting of the founder, Bill Bright, who discussed with his wife and several others that he believed that the current name was limiting the ministry. The official process began two years ago and the new name was announced a couple nights ago at our staff conference in Colorado. The name change process was begun because top leaders in ministry believed that the word "campus" and the word "crusade" were limiting the ministry's ability to adequately live up to their mission. Since CCC is now more than a campus ministry, it did not make sense for the global name to still only refer to it as such. In addition, the word "crusade" carries a fairly negative context in our society today. Because of these two things, the ministry began to poll and research different kinds of names and their effectiveness of describing CCC's mission.
Campus Crusade for Christ's vision statement is "Helping to build spiritual movements everywhere so that everyone knows someone who truly follows Jesus Christ." That vision statement is not and will not be changing. CCC is just as dedicated to spreading the gospel and the good news of Jesus Christ. Since the name change was officially announced, critics have accused the ministry of several things such as "being watered down Christians", "being ashamed of Christ" and trying to be "politically correct so as to get more donors." I can tell you this is not the case for their staff. Taking Christ out of the ministry name only gives us as staff an even greater opportunity to live out the gospel daily and display Christ's name through our lives. Although this negative feedback has been fairly damaging to the name of the CCC ministry thusfar, Steve Sellers, the vice president, put the situation in excellent light. He said that even if cru gets a black eye, someone's name is in the news now more than ever in recent memory, the name of Jesus Christ. The only name that truly matters.
If you want to know more about the name change, please visit www.ccci.org or feel free to contact me! I also strongly encourage you to go to Fox News and watch the Fox and Friends interview with Steve Sellers that occurred this morning.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
New Beginnings
"Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take Him at His word; Just to rest upon His promise, Just to know "Thus saith the Lord."
When I think back over the past year, the words from this hymn immediately came to my lips. Just a little over a year ago, Mitch and I had barely begun dating, I was finishing up my degree at Auburn, and Mitch was traveling with Josh McDowell. Neither of us had any idea where God was going to take us as a couple or in our journeys individually. As I sit here, reminiscing about the past year and taking in the beauty of God's creation in Colorado, I cannot help but to sing the words above over and over again in my head. I can only sit in awe of the amazing things that God has done in my life and the incredible journey that he has placed before Mitch and I.
In the next couple months, Mitch and I will be traveling back and forth between Decatur, AL and Columbus, GA, where we will be raising support. Support raising, I am finding out, is one of the most challenging and humbling experiences I have ever faced and it requires absolute dependence on God and trust in Him for provision. To be completely open and honest, I never in my life would have thought that one day my family would be living off of monthly financial support from a gracious team of donors. But what an opportunity it has given both of us to become more like Christ! Because of this, I thought it was no better time to start our new Jaeger family (future) blog: to share our journey, struggles, and most importantly, to be able to display God's glory through the great things He will do through our support raising and our ministry!
Here is our newsletter from this month that explains in further detail my and Mitch's new ministry assignment and our time at Staff training and conference. (If you would like to receive our monthly newsletter email me at amybethschuster@gmail.com)
When I think back over the past year, the words from this hymn immediately came to my lips. Just a little over a year ago, Mitch and I had barely begun dating, I was finishing up my degree at Auburn, and Mitch was traveling with Josh McDowell. Neither of us had any idea where God was going to take us as a couple or in our journeys individually. As I sit here, reminiscing about the past year and taking in the beauty of God's creation in Colorado, I cannot help but to sing the words above over and over again in my head. I can only sit in awe of the amazing things that God has done in my life and the incredible journey that he has placed before Mitch and I.
In the next couple months, Mitch and I will be traveling back and forth between Decatur, AL and Columbus, GA, where we will be raising support. Support raising, I am finding out, is one of the most challenging and humbling experiences I have ever faced and it requires absolute dependence on God and trust in Him for provision. To be completely open and honest, I never in my life would have thought that one day my family would be living off of monthly financial support from a gracious team of donors. But what an opportunity it has given both of us to become more like Christ! Because of this, I thought it was no better time to start our new Jaeger family (future) blog: to share our journey, struggles, and most importantly, to be able to display God's glory through the great things He will do through our support raising and our ministry!
Here is our newsletter from this month that explains in further detail my and Mitch's new ministry assignment and our time at Staff training and conference. (If you would like to receive our monthly newsletter email me at amybethschuster@gmail.com)
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