Each year, Cru’s Campus Ministry publishes a report with the results of our Summer Missions sending across the nation.  This year’s report is 33 pages long, and has a lot of in-house lingo.  But we will just post a quick snapshot here to give you a picture of what God is doing through Cru Summer Missions around the world.

A couple of notes on how this relates to our ministry:  Our family co-led one of those Global Missions trips to East Asia this summer.  Also, the person who compiles this report is on the team of 4 Scott has been working with for the past 8 months, to restructure/upgrade our Summer Missions program.

2018 Sending :: Cru trained and sent out 2882 students around the US and the world with the light of Christ, as part of 216 missional teams, and another 2500 involved through Summer Connect (see below).

There were 63,733 gospel exposures with 5373 decisions for Christ!

• Of 140 Global Missions teams and 1325 students,

o 34,172 gospel exposures and 4326 decisions for Christ

o 2,168 of these decisions were from the Tanzania high school and college mission!

o Highlights: Cote d’Ivoire saw 1500 hear the gospel and 200 decisions! 5 teams had over 10 personal gospel conversations per student per week in country – SOON Thailand (28.3), Ecuador High School (19.6), Cote d’Ivoire (15), Cyprus (14.3), and London PSW (10).

• Of 52 US teams and 1393 students,

o 27,310 gospel exposures and 967 decisions. (52,024 and 1300 respectively in 2017)

o We had a handful less teams and 200 less students, and half the gospel exposures.

o Highlights: North Myrtle Beach led with 2,408 personal gospel exposures, while Ocean City led with 5000 media exposures! 11 teams reported over 7 spiritual conversations initiated per student per week, leading to 2 to 4 gospel exposures per person per week.