Volume 1, Issue 3
November 2007
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST
The Campaign
Cru is for Everyone.
The idea began as a
simple poster expressing
God’s love for all of his chil-
dren and what we hope to
express as an organization
representing Christ. This past
month a couple of student
leaders on the Outreach Team
felt strongly enough about
this poster that they wanted to
share it with the entire cam-
pus.
A huge 6’ X 8’ tarp
(shown above) was hung in
the busiest spot on campus
for three days. During those
three days students handed
out 8,000 flyers that bore the
same message: Cru is for
everyone.
So, what does “for
everyone” mean? Voiced in
conversations and posted on
the front page of our website
we answer this: Today our
culture teaches that being
for everyone requires an
individual to be inclusive,
accepting of all people with
various backgrounds, pref-
erences, beliefs, emotional
states, etc. Our culture tells
us that being for everyone
requires us to drop the con- held in the highest regard,
cepts of "right & wrong" and yet that individual did not
"truth" for the sake of feel condemned or judged?
"tolerance" and Is this even possible?
"inclusiveness." The result in
We believe it is and
the end is the conviction of
trust that CRU lives this out.
having no conviction at all.
Regardless of who you are—
What if being for ethnicity, socioeconomic
everyone was different? status, sexual orientation,
What if instead of blindly physical well-being, emo-
accepting people in the name tional well-being—we want
of you to
"tolerance" “what if being for everyone know that
and saying as Jesus
meant that we could provide
that every- loved, we
thing was people with hope in a world as His
that is otherwise hopeless
okay, we people
actually through a solid foundation of seek to
were for love and truth? “ love as He
everyone in has. Al-
the sense of meeting people though we do not stray from
where they are at in their our convictions, we believe
daily lives? And if we took it that because of Jesus we are
a step further, what if being not hindered from loving
for everyone meant that we others and meeting you
could provide people with where you are at in your
hope in a world that is other- life; instead we welcome you
wise hopeless through a with open arms and are able
solid foundation of love and to love you the way God has
truth? What if we could wel- always intended. In this re-
come people into an environ- ality we truly believe that
ment where convictions were CRU is for everyone.
 Community Group Outreach
Community groups are more
than just Bible studies. It is more like a
mini-crusade; an atmosphere that fosters
fellowship and challenges students to
reach out to their friends, family and
classmates and being bold in sharing their
faith.
The majority of our time has
been spent studying the Bible, specifi-
cally the attributes of God, which has
been great but a recent evaluation of our
mission and vision for the group showed
that we were lacking in other areas.
With a small push from the
leaders and God’s blessings we were able
to set up an outreach event in one week.
We rented the clubhouse at the largest
apartment complex in Gainesville where
more than 300 students live, put flyers up
on every door and baked cookies and
lasagna for the residents. At least 20
people came out to eat.
I was so proud of our commu-
nity group girls, they all had the opportu-
nity to sit down and engage in conversa-
tions. The Soularium was set up on the
pool tables and a number of our guests
went through the questions and one guy,
the first to come and the last to leave, is
planning on coming to our weekly meet-
ing!
Praise the Lord that we could
serve the community, meet students and
that everything came together so nicely in
such a short time.

Prayer Requests
♦ Continued wisdom in discipleship and
for Allison who, since my last update,
♦ Garret a student I met doing the
has become one of my disciples.
Soularium. He’s struggling with
♦ Lyndsey a freshmen who has had a
♦ Unveiled ‘07: Our winter conference his faith right now and showed
hard time making friends and finding
that takes place Dec. 29th-Jan 2nd. We some interest in Crusade but we
didn’t have the chance to talk a community of believers.
are praying for 150 UF students to at-
tend! Please be in prayer for students as more. Pray that I would encounter
they make plans for winter break and him again.
that God would use the conference to
challenge and encourage students.

Mindy Sue Colvin ~ Campus Crusade for Christ ~ University of Florida

1326 NW 11th Rd ~ Gainesville, FL ~ 32605

269.908.0611 ~ Mindy.Colvin@uscm.org ~ www.myspace.com/mindysue_crusade

To donate online: http://give.ccci.org/give/0593522

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