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BSUCRU students take part in some vital Christian fellowship.
With school coming to a close again, it's a good time to reflect on what Boise State University's Campus Crusade for Christ movement has been up to, and well as what lies ahead.
BSUCRU, which is the branch of CCC here in Boise, "is an interdenominational Christian organization made up of BSU students from many different backgrounds seeking to understand who God is, who we are, and why we are here on Earth," according to bsucru.com. CCC was founded in 1951 and now is active on most major college campuses in the U.S. and overseas.
Simply put, this group is all about sharing the Gospel and discipling believers during a very pivotal period in young people's lives.
BSUCRU carries out its mission through a variety of activities including:
- A meeting, called FUEL, each Thursday night features worship, student testimonies and words of truth from local Christian leaders. Afterward students get a chance to unwind and experience much-needed fellowship.
- Life Groups, or Bible studies.
- Discipleship opportunities.
- Large-scale evangelism efforts.
- Training and experience in how to effectively share the Gospel.
Roughly 60 to 80 people attend FUEL, on average, said Billy Mogensen, director of student ministries. However, about 150 people are at least semi-regularly involved with BSUCRU in some capacity.
Mogensen said one thing he and and the other staff members have placed a bit more emphasis on is one-one-one discipleship and evangelism preparation — with less energy being put into big, complicated, resources-intensive campaigns.
He said the desired effect is more direct interaction and engagement between Christian students and their friends and classmates. Plus, those who receive personal training hopefully will pass what they've learned on to their BSUCRU peers.
In what has become an annual CCC tradition, a handful of BSUCRU students will head out into the nations — didn't someone important tell us to do that? — for "summer projects," or short-term mission trips. Some will head overseas to locations such as East Asia and Venezuela, while others will take up residence stateside in Lake Tahoe.
But all of them will come back with important training under their belts, and hopefully with a ton of personal growth.
"It's kind of a spiritual greenhouse in a sense over the summer," Mogensen said.
Here's hoping BSUCRU's beginning-of-the-year kickoff barbecue this fall will mark the melding of all these students' and staff members' talents and fresh training into one major force to advance God's Kingdom.
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