We operated without fanfare and always with a local Christian student teaming with one of our Navigator personnelwith all the potential of this evangelistic thrust and with the obvious favorable situation in which to do evangelism upon the college campus, it is not surprising that we should meet some problems. Promptly, upon arrival, Bob launched a coffee house named The Bitter End across the street from the American University in Beirut, borrowing the name from the famed coffee house in New Yorks Greenwich Village. It seems likely that the first was put on by Gene and Edie Soderberg in Guelph in October 1963. With his divine alchemy, he turns not only water into wine but common things into radiant mysteries. His account suggests that he was constantly aware of his Spanish and American rivals. Campus Ministries in Latin America We had placed a strong focus on city ministries which inevitably lowered the perceived value of campus ministry. By the end of the decade, we had participated enthusiastically in several IVCF triennial Urbana conventions. ., The following year, Jim Downing spoke to the representatives of various Christian Movements at Azusa Pacific College on How to Work Together Harmoniously.. Daws was elected to the YFC board in 1952. We find Lorne Sanny speaking daily for a week to the students at Gordon College in February 1958.31 By 1959, there were more young people on campus than in the entire armed forces. But they are at sea about standards and ideals. Source: Dear Gang, 1968-3, Sanny. After she translated our Bible study materials, several young businessmen, teachers, nurses, and others gathered in small groups and came to a personal knowledge of the Lord.97. In the Washington, DC area, Gene Tabor and his close contacts personally presented Christ to a thousand students during the school year. He welcomed the Robertsons. See Jim Whites letter of February 16, 1965 to LeRoy Eims on the Penn State interaction which laid out three guidelines. There was even talk in some Nav circles of an inevitable decline from man to mission to movement to machine to monument. See my article on Movement.. Leroy and Virginia moved to Pittsburgh in 1953, beginning work at the University after local pastors had requested help after a Crusade. The first Nav conference in Korea was held in May 1967, with Bob Boardman as the main speaker. LeRoy Eims pioneered student ministries in Pennsylvania33 and Nebraska. The US were represented by Terry Cook, Mike Dodson, Lindy Black, Evan and Kim Griffin, Dan Christensen, Craig Parker. A small Whing Ding held the following January in Derbyshire boosted both Loughborough and Manchester ministries. A positive development was the publication of John Stotts book. Eims told our Overseas Policy Conference (OPC) in 1961: There are two homes on the East Coast which I visited where men are living. Although the Nav contingent was a tiny part of the three thousand attendees, the program and connections permanently impacted and strengthened Scottys commitment to cross-cultural missions. These events, which fitted the cultural moment so well and accelerated the expansion of our collegiate work, were not the only spectaculars that LeRoy put on. My now former crazy roommate was in Navigators for a time and told me that Campus Crusade was a "Catholic group" (ours wasn't) and other random things. 1985: 278 It was a huge success with the students. This title was well known in the wider culture because, from April 1963, ABC-TV had a Saturday evening folk singing program called Hootenanny.48. The ministry in Seoul city was by now so large that in 1973 it was divided into two segments: Seoul A Area (John Ha) and Seoul B Area (Paul Yoo). . . Martin later opened our ministry in Liverpool, succeeding Pete Dowse and Alan Sims as country leader in 1996. In 1963, Gordy and Margaret Nordstrom (Americans) began to minister among students in Manchester at UMIST.85 Future Navs reached in this ministry included Bernie Dodd86 and Martin Cooper.87 A satellite but more fruitful ministry at the YMCA reached Ron Finlay and Bernie Marks. We pressed on. Thats what eventually led me to becoming an atheist. One of the stronger ministries in the UK was at Sheffield University, led for some years by Pete Dowse. The Baha'i Club provides prayer, study, social, and service activities on campus for all students who are interested in learning about and promoting the principles of the Baha'i Faith. They tell the story of the international expansion of The Navigators, rooted in our US origins in the 1930s through the birth of The Core in 2002. Does The Navigators in Singapore have any long-term plans to enter the campuses of the various tertiary educational institutions? The folk music of the 1960s (early Bob Dylan; Peter, Paul & Mary) contains a longing for change in society, an impatience with hypocrisy, a suspicion of authority. and overflowing with energy and hope for a better world, ready to make any sacrifice demanded of them.111, To understand Marxist approaches around the world and their often-successful methods, quite a few Navigators read the book Dedication and Leadership by Douglas Hyde.112 Marxists presented a comprehensive worldview that helped the students discover their identity and approached them on the basis of their felt needs. Six young evangelists, led by Billy Graham, helped organize and preach at YFC rallies throughout the US and Canada. And even though the whole campus was talking about the hootenanny in Kalamazoo, Walt Henrichsen could still say, My objective is not to evangelize Western Michigan University but to see God raise up some laborers. . pushing us beyond our normal limit. He comments that DFD featured twenty-nine topics but none referred to issues such as materialism or endemic poverty, corruption, or injustice. This strengthened the vision and deepened the convictions of the young Koreans. Sources: McGilchrist August 29, 1994 memo on. As the Hunts recount, InterVarsitys reticence to count converts or to consider conversions genuine until follow-up had taken place made its organization seem more prosaic . Things calmed down.54. Though the Navs could be described as somewhat calm and focused, they exemplified a surprising quote from the Victorian Presbyterian George MacDonald (1824-1905), a profound influence on C. S. Lewis, who wrote: There is a glad significance in the fact that our Lords first miracle was the turning of water into wine. Military Ministries As early as February 1998, the IET had reviewed Terrys proposal and decided that they did not wish to make this a global initiative. Navigators (Navs) - "look down on anyone in Campus Crusade ", "mostly This hard ground in the campus was combined with the prevailing Gen X philosophy of dont trust anyone over thirty years of age. Thus, our veteran staff were finding it increasingly difficult to relate to students due to their age. Thus, The Navigators had collegiate ministries in perhaps a score of cities, but they were not so designated or catalogued. Over 3700 different students were involved in Bible studies and discipleship groups. William R. Bright, 81, Founder Of Campus Crusade for Christ I would consider them a cult. Then, we will be in a position to use US manpower to make an impact in the USand each country will be heading towards this same objective.. They realize the importance of feeding their own lives by prayer, the Word, time alone with God. CRU GLOBAL INC | Charity Navigator Profile Turn on, tune in, drop out as persuasively urged by Timothy Leary of Harvard. He was also on the board of practically all evangelical agencies. At the time, the ministry was not only at the National University but throughout the city of Seoul. Disciples were still being made, but far fewer. Spiritual interest among young women is such that we now have 70 single American women serving as campus staff. . Scottys relationship with him was somewhat adversarial in that the Macalester IVCF was composed almost entirely of students led to Christ and discipled by Navigators; first by Doug Sparks and Ruthetta Barnett, and now by Scotty. . God used Doug (Sparks) to get us sharpened to a fine edge for the battle ahead . He moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1958 to minister at the University of Nebraska: Larry Blake and Marvin Smith joined the team, moving from Oklahoma State at Stillwater where Jack Holt had been since 1956. Peter, Paul & Mary were emblematic of youth culture. (Madison, WI) - InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is issuing a statement which is signed by six other campus ministries calling racism, anti-Semitism, and white supremacy anti-Christian. . The use of volunteer leaders began at Wheaton College in the late 1940s. In the Great Lakes, Jack Mayhall was launching Operation Homestead, in which key men from the region came together for several days of evangelism at Western Michigan University. Then, Russ and Don McDonald moved to Lincoln, Nebraska and linked up with Larry Blake and Marvin Smith. . This third congress, held over the Easter weekend, was probably the second largest Nav conference we have ever held in any country.102 Nine hundred came from the Netherlands, eight hundred from the UK, and 350 from Norway. At the University of Nebraska, Jim White spoke to fraternity men and saw dozens of students at the University of Nebraska accept Christ through personal evangelism. They are suspicious of absolutes and many do not believe in a standard of morality. Campus Ministries Unite Against Racism, Anti-Semitism - InterVarsity . Although distinctive, it was not unique. After the war, in 1946 and 1947, hundreds of ex-service Navigators entered colleges across the US, with express instructions from our headquarters not to start Navigator ministries on campus but to work at winning and discipling fellow students for Christ, to diligently support InterVarsity, to help local pastors and to work under any existing evangelical banner. Did You Ever Belong to an Evangelical Campus Ministry? Cru was founded as Campus Crusade for Christ in 1951 by Bill and Vonette Bright. Young Life traced its origins to Jim Rayburn starting a weekly club for high school kids in Gainesville, Texas, in 1938. . . Navigators (Navs) - "deliberately spreading falsehoods about the other One difference was that, whereas the military ministry was largely with men, the campus ministry was coeducational from the beginning. In 1971, the leaders of four main evangelical agencies ministering on US campuses met77 and formally agreed to teach the staff of their organizations the following principles . We saw a number of men come to Christ while we were there and many are on the brink. The Church seemed largely oblivious to the human predicament identified in James 2:14-17 and elsewhere. See Global Planning: 1966-1975 and Cross-Cultural Missions and The Allocation of Cross-Cultural Missionaries and Stress in the Seventies.. Notions of right and wrong were still strong. Campus Crusade for Christ Changes Name, Losing 'Crusade' and 'Christ' The Edge Corps sent out their first missionaries, to Malaysia. . William R. Bright (October 19, 1921 - July 19, 2003) was an American evangelist.In 1951 at the University of California, Los Angeles he founded Campus Crusade for Christ as a ministry for university students. Theater seats were acquired. The Dutch set up their Captains Club in a small boathouse in the center of the little village of Loosdrecht, with an adjoining tent, so that two-to-three hundred people could be accommodated. These approaches include working with college students on college and university campuses, working with high school students, working with adults in their careers (including people in various business environments . That led Mark Gauthier (Cru), Jim Luebe (The Navigators) and I to invite the campus directors from seventeen different movements to meet at InterVarsity Press to draw up a new statement together. Ken has published an engaging and challenging account of his Brazilian experience entitled. He had almost unlimited opportunities to evangelize and follow-up new and growing Christians. Youth for Christ International (YFC)9 was incorporated in September 1945 with the motto: Geared to the times and anchored to the Rock. Dr. Torrey Johnson became their first president. Campus Crusade for Christ at The University of Arizona - Krepps Dutch missionaries are being sent out again to France and Peru, inspired by among others the faithful ministry of female Nav laborers in Russia and Romania. Beatenberg became a springboard for world outreach. What follows is largely taken from recollections by Cees de Jonge in 2017. . 95 During Scottys time at Macalester, he also taught at the St. Paul Brethren Assembly, a teenager in his class being Jim Petersen. It was an ingenious and strategic step. Dougs assignment was to develop a system of follow-up for the enormously successful evangelistic campaigns conducted at the time by Dick Hillis, founder of Orient Crusades. Campus Crusade for Christ began working in Italy in 1971 under the name "Studenti Italiani per Cristo", since 1990 they have used Agape Italia. I wonder how many Christians there are who so thoroughly believe God made them that they can laugh in Gods name, who understand that God invented laughter and gave it to his children. Fryling reported that 25 percent of our students are African American, Asian American, Hispanic, Native American, or from other countries. Tried and proven ministry methods created and trained into the staff in the 1970s during the fruitful Jesus Movement among the Baby Boomers no longer worked. What people have always neededan authority that we find in Christ. . IVCF staff were spread too thin. The Varsity Christian Fellowship (VCF) was affiliated with the Fellowship of Evangelical Students (FES). The experience of working as inter-cultural teams82 was very significant.83. Quite a few of the Europeans in the OTC were students. Read More. T he debate over critical race theory has landed at Cru, one of the country's most prominent parachurch . Now, clearly, some organization was needed. A History of our Calling John Crawford assured him that this could be done by building a balcony four tiers high around the walls of the hall which would be ample seating for a thousand men. Compared with the previously proposed tent, this was said to be a plush atmosphere.52. Several factors will require us to have lavish communications focused on our students, constituency, and staff. . Our overarching goals and purposes must be very clear. However, in working with an individual, the disciple-maker visualizes a goal for the disciple in terms of what he would like to see in his pupils life. ORLANDO FL | IRS ruling year: 2002 | EIN: 45-3697029. By now, LeRoy was US areas director, based at Glen Eyrie, and Bob rejoined him as his assistant. Voelkel (ibid) has an entire chapter describing how The Navigators ministered, beginning in late 1964 through Jim and Marge Petersen and extending by 1974 to Mexico and Costa Rica. This distinctive feature,107 namely that staff wives are in charge of the womens ministry, has continued successfully to this day. John Ha moved to the city of Taejon. Our collegiate staff gathered at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in October 1992 for a retreat under the banner For the Sake of the Call. The papers for this retreat provide a picture of where our US campus ministry had reached, and what it was reacting against. In that era, newspapers often reported on the midnight antics of college students, causing one to wonder whether there was as much partying as studying. The seven were: Laurens Touwen, Kees Ton, Rob Pieke, Rinus Baljeu, Gerrie Hobleman, Cees Metselaar and Cees de Jonge. For November 1970, see Dear Staff letter December 11, 1970. On Friday night we spoke to the IVCF meeting. Looking back at 2012, as he analyzed responses, he found that new believers were significantly helped to gain a clear picture of Christian discipleship by being introduced into a group92 in which it was normative to help one another to: Why was there such rapid growth in our UK student ministries in the late 1960s and the following decade? . The decline of privacy, order, respect for authority. Their collaboration began when LeRoy would travel to speak at missions night at Grace Bible Institute where Bob was enrolled from 1956 to 1958. When this stage is reached, representatives will not be sent from the US to overseas posts in appreciable numbers because the strategic spots will be filled by men of many nationalities. None of us regards any campus as our exclusive field. Dear Gang, April 3, 1964, slightly edited. Bob V. did put on a final Hootenanny in Nairobi, Kenya, at the request of Dave and Sherry Hall, in 1971. For at least ten years, many students came to Christ, formed small Bible study groups and witnessed to their friends. A similar resistance surfaced in Singapore when we began our thrust among college and university students in 1965. We did this through the other students. He partnered with Jerry Marshall. I bought in to all their stuff. . . By the time we had gathered enough information, my ministry had grown substantially as had Blakes city leadership responsibilities. It was a time of great fruitfulness and God poured out his blessing on each of these ministries, all of which had been concentrating on evangelism and discipleship. Letter: Don Hankins to Pat Nelson, July 9, 1965, Oslo. Music and lyrics were mainly by Ron Oertli and a prominent role was given to Ann Horsford, a British stage actress who had recently come to Christ. Participative decision-making means the freedom to influence those decisions that impact us and the opportunity to understand the results: however, it does not always mean having a democracy or that having input is the same as having a vote. Whereas IVF desired to minister almost entirely on campus, we believed that a Nav home near the campus played a big part in what was called a thrust and withdrawal ministry for Christian students on a secular campus.71, One IVF concern was that our energetic forays could jeopardize IVFs standing with the campus administration. The above being said my experience with Navigators is limited but I recall they focused on the scriptures and growing believers in their walk with Christ. In the Netherlands, we reached students at the University of Delft and at Leiden University. It was founded in 1951 at the University of California, Los Angeles by Bill Bright and Vonette Zachary Bright.Since then, Cru has expanded its focus to include adult professionals, athletes, and high school students. Is your main interest in churches or students? This Hock report analyzed the makeup of our 270 collegiate staff. Beginning in 1931 with a half-dozen contemporaries, he formed a corps called Minute Men, denoting the battle-readiness of the early American citizen soldiers. The Navigator entrance into collegiate work in the 1930s was inconspicuous, with several factors contributing. The Edge Corps has evolved and continues to flourish. Four years in college would thus extend to five: it was a program for the committed.4 Classes were aimed at maintaining spiritual growth, equipping participants to reach fellow students, and preparing them for future ministry upon graduation. His student Bible study group soon embraced a dozen men. ternary operator with multiple conditions in angular. The campus staff had in their sights set on eighty-seven target campuses, on fifty-two of which our staff currently served. Bill and Jeanette Fletcher. Campus Crusade for Christ - Rick Alan Ross Voelkel concludes: The phenomenal growth of this movement among students and the educated elite in southern Brazil is most encouraging. Perhaps God smiled because Johns move to Taejon was the start of the remarkable growth of the ministry in the 1970s: David Choi to Taegu; Peter Hong to Suwon; Kim Jung Won to Inchon; John Pyun to Pusan; Andrew Oh to Kwangjoo; Chung Won Oh to Junjoo; Sohn Dong Pyo to Kyungsan; and so on. A difficulty experienced by both IVF and FES was that, because they were student-led, students typically decided whose meetings they wished to attend. . The decade of the 1980s had seen a precipitous decline in the number of US collegiate staff. Overall, we are not doing too red-hot in fulfilling this particular objective.40, Whatever such reservations, we were entering a period of energetic evangelism, in which LeRoy Eims and Bob V. supplied much of the creative energy. Cru has been mobilizing, training and sending individuals to be a part of helping to fulfill the Great Commission for over 60 years. In 1969, Bob Mitchell of Young Life and Sam Wolgemuth of Youth for Christ were also present (Dear Gang, March 9, 1969). Collegians were a prominent target group, although in keeping with the Navigator type of ministry, on-campus organization and recognition were not sought. Cru is not rated by Charity Navigator, another independent charity watchdog organization. Bill Bright - Wikipedia The difference between CCC and InterVarsity is succinctly put in For Christ and the University:24. Jack Mayhall had moved to Wheaton, Illinois in 1958 but soon found much of his time occupied consulting with and helping our new campus representatives in neighboring states.. Overseas Training Corps: 1965 It is a true symbol of what he has done for the world in glorifying all things. Bright was born near the small town of Coweta, Okla., and . Also, we appealed to engineering students who were practical and interested in how more than why. This fitted Navigator approaches which were still very how to oriented. Overseas Policy Conference: 1961 For one, the term Navigator for many years designated only a seagoing adherent of the movement, the land-based ministry with civilians going under a succession of names, most often Dunamis for young men and Martures or Martyrus for young women.2 For another, the target area for the ministry was a certain age group, rather than a staked-out mission field, such as a college campus. Within a decade, Navigator ministries spread around the country not only among university students, but also among high school students who used the name Captains Club. Graduates witnessed in their environment, drawing people from traditional churches to encounter Christ or re-commit their lives to Him. John Ha and Paul Yoo started by contacting university students104 whose names had been given to them by relatives and church friends, so that there were already some relational connections at various colleges.105.