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Campus Crusade for Christ was founded in 1951 at the University of California, Los Angeles by Bill Bright and Vonette Zachary Bright as a ministry for university students. [6] [7] According to historian John G. Turner, Bill Bright and Vonette Zachary Bright were influenced and mentored by Henrietta Mears, the director of Christian Education at the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood.
By the 1960s the writings of Watchman Nee had become popular among evangelicals, [1] [2] [3] including many in Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC). In 1968 Campus Crusade's national field director Jon Braun, who had read Watchman Nee's The Normal Christian Church Life, [4] and all of the regional directors under him left Campus Crusade seeking the ...
In 1967 Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) President Bill Bright conceived of a strategy to reach students at UC Berkeley, considered the hotbed of campus radicalism as the launching point of the Free Speech Movement and the Vietnam Day Committee. [1] CCC sent six hundred staff and students for a weeklong blitz.
The worst occurred over 50 years ago when four unarmed Kent State University students were killed, and another paralyzed, by National Guardsmen during a protest of the U.S. bombings in Cambodia.
Christian unions (CUs) are evangelical Christian student groups. They exist in many countries and are often affiliated with either the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (through a national body) or the Campus Crusade for Christ. Many Christian unions are one of the societies affiliated to their universities' students' union.
Explo '72 was an evangelistic conference sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ, planned and directed by Paul Eshleman.Explo '72 has been called the most visible event of the 1970s Jesus movement, [1] and came to be associated with the same, even though its primary attendees were not directly involved in that movement.
Eden Melles, a graduate student among the Northwestern protest organizers, said Tuesday that reestablishing the advisory committee is “huge," but she also understands criticism of the agreement.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is being slammed as a traitor following damning claims he instructed administrators at Columbia University to dismiss any criticism of the school's handling of ...