Not Even a Felony
Each November, in preparation for the Boxes of Love® outreach, many of the churches that share a partnership with Cru® hold evangelism trainings to equip their volunteer teams for gospel conversations during the outreach. Such was true of one church in the heart of Chicago. After the training, everyone dispersed in pairs to share the […]
Happy About Giving
It was that time of year again: churches and ministries — that you serve through your partnership with Cru® Inner City — were preparing to deliver Boxes of Love® to families in need. Volunteers had packed up turkeys and all the fixings to feed a family of six, including materials that tell about the love […]
Raising Up Young Men
In April, five hundred volunteers came to the warehouse in Minneapolis to help pack Easter Bags, an outreach tool used by our church partners. Among the volunteers was Jacques. Jacques grew up in a broken home in East St. Paul. He became acquainted with the inner-city ministry of Cru® more than half a decade ago […]
When the Church Commits
I was surprised to learn that over 150 identifiable church/school partnerships currently exist in the Seattle area! The benefits are so apparent that Seattle’s superintendent recently expressed his desire to see a church partnership with every public school in the city! One of our church partners regularly leverages our Compassionate Products™, like Boxes of Love® […]
An Everlasting Welcome
For our friends in Bakersfield, California, Easter can be an invigorating time of year. Cool, dry winter days lengthen into warm, bright days of spring. Produce crops are sown with optimism toward summer. Images of bunnies, pastel colors, and eggs overtake the marketplace. Children look forward to warmer weather and baskets filled with candy. But […]
What Does This Mean?
“What does this mean?” Sierra held up the gospel bead bracelet she’d been given. Imogene smiled as she looked at the girl. A few weeks earlier, Imogene had been driving around her neighborhood praying for who she might connect with. Her church’s PowerPack™ outreach was coming up, and she knew there were families who could […]