Ministry Overview

When Bill and Vonette Bright first launched Campus Crusade for Christ as a campus ministry in 1951, the underlying concept was to "win the campus today and change the world tomorrow." More than 50 years later, the mission is still the same.

Today, the campus ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ is a network of vibrant, growing movements on 1,029 campuses in the United States and beyond. Proven and diverse outreach strategies expose millions of students to the gospel each year. Over the past five years, more than 37,900 students made a decision to become a Christian.

The structure of our ministry is designed to reach the most number of students in the most effective ways. There are four areas of ongoing focus:

Catalytic

Faced with the realization that 7 million college students are on campuses having no full-time Campus Crusade staff, Catalytic staff members are trusting God for a vital, effective ministry on every unreached campus. We look for the "catalyst" on a specific campus - a key student, a church partnership, a professor - who can help launch and lead the ministry. We currently have 700 campuses with ministries like this. To learn about how to start a ministry on a campus, visit Godsquad.com .

Ethnic Student Ministries

The campus population is changing rapidly. As more and more ethnic students come to campus, they are increasingly immersing themselves in an ethnic student subculture on campus. If we are to reach these students, we cannot rely on traditional means of ministry. Ethnic Student Ministries (ESM) formed out of a burden to see ethnic college students have at least one chance to hear the gospel. There are now 64 ESM movements on campuses nationwide. Currently there are three national movements within ESM that have the same mission, but directed toward different ethnic groups:

Staffed Campuses

Traditionally our ministry has a team of staff based on a major state university. That team is focused on getting the gospel in front of every student on that campus, building into the lives of Christian students and raising up leaders among the students to go abroad and help launch new ministries.

Worldwide Student Network (WSN)

There are 60 million college students around the world. This represents only 1 percent of the world's population--the "powerful percent." These are the future leaders of the nations. WSN is the international effort of the campus ministry to serve the nations of the world in reaching college students.

Campus Crusade for Christ International

The campus ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ is part of a family of 60 ministries under Campus Crusade for Christ International based in Orlando , Florida . Dr. Bill Bright founded the ministry in 1951 at UCLA. Campus Crusade for Christ now has 26,000 full time staff and 550,000 trained volunteers worldwide serving on campuses and in community based ministries in 191 countries. The goal of the campus ministry is to help reach the 60 million college students of the world with the message of the gospel. To learn more about the other ministries of Campus Crusade for Christ International visit www.ccci.org .