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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 ...
Local campus chapters of Campus Crusade for Christ often use a shorter name that the staff members feel will be inviting to students. "Cru," shortened from Crusade is a common one. --Markww 17:39, 7 September 2006 (UTC) Canada recently changed the name of the campus ministry to Campus for Christ.
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.
Campus Crusade for Christ (similar international organisation, principally American) Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF, UK national organisation) Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (CICCU) Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (OICCU) Other UK national organisations. Student Christian Movement (SCM, established 1889)
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.
Power to Change was founded in 1967 by Josh McDowell as Campus Crusade for Christ Canada. The initial organization was based around a student ministry at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Athletes in Action was launched in Canada in 1974 and the Christian Embassy was started in Ottawa in 1985. FamilyLife hosted its first marriage ...
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