Students experience crushing pressures: broken homes, digital addiction, cancel culture. The unrelenting fear of missing out on a better opportunity. While today's students have more resources and options than ever before, they're also experiencing record levels of mental illness and loneliness. Ironically, the most connected generation is spiritually disconnected.
This crushing pressure also creates spiritual openness. Students have first-hand experience of the hollowness of the world's promises and are looking for more satisfying answers. Curiosity is widespread in this generation. Our ministry intersects student's lives during these developmentally critical years so that they have an opportunity to grow in the love and truth of Jesus rather than lured by the ways of this world.
Why is the campus strategic?
Students will spend more than 9,000 hours on campus in middle and high school. We focus our efforts on students right before they launch out into the world.
Kirk and Angie have spent the last 20 years working directly with high school and middle school students on public school campuses focusing on...
WINNING them to Christ by building relationships with them and sharing the gospel.
BUILDING them up in their faith through weekly meetings, small groups, and conferences.
SENDING student leaders to reach their friends by teaching them to share their faith and lead their friends spiritually.
Kirk and Angie serve on the Cru High School Ministry Leadership Team where they help give direction to the overall ministry nationally. As Mission Directors, they encourage and equip Team Leaders across the country so that they are better able to reach the teens in their cities.
In addition to leading nationally, Kirk and Angie continue to minister to students locally by sharing Christ with teens through outreaches and Bible study groups, as well as taking students to conferences and on international mission projects.