{"id":1736,"date":"2019-08-01T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2020-03-23T14:46:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T18:46:46","slug":"the-be-and-the-cause-at-cru19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/?p=1736","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Be&#8221; and the &#8220;Cause&#8221; at #Cru19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Top3-Cru19-pics.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Top3-Cru19-pics.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Top3-Cru19-pics-300x73.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Top3-Cru19-pics-768x187.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>5 weeks after Steve\u2019s surgery (more on that in a moment) Rochelle, Josh and I flew out to Fort Collins, CO, and joined around 5000 or so of our fellow Cru staff for the Cru19 Staff Conference on the campus at CSU. With our theme focused on \u201cbeing\u201d together with God, and pursuing the \u201ccause\u201d he has invited us into with Him, we spent wonderful time in worship and centering our lives on Him, as well as learning more in areas of diversity, partnership, evangelism and reaching everyone with the gospel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-4-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1738\" class=\"wp-image-1738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-4-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-4.jpg 2047w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1740\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/?attachment_id=1740\" class=\"wp-image-1740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We were again delighted to learn from spiritual leaders from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds teaching the word and sharing their ministry experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve Sellers, our US National Director, powerfully drew us together around our common focus on Christ, fulfilling the Great Commission, and using all our various strategies in the power of the Holy Spirit to accomplish His mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1739\" class=\"wp-image-1739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-6-1024x672.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1741\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-6.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/?attachment_id=1741\" class=\"wp-image-1741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-6-1024x672.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-6-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-6-768x504.png 768w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cru19-6.png 1061w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Progress markers included<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp;2 years ago Cru and our partners were active on 5000 university campuses world wide, and now that number has grown to 8000! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp;Many US ministries and churches are partnering through the EveryCampus.com initiative to see that every US campus is adopted and prayed for and engaged in Christian ministry by the end of 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp;Our new staff joining Cru this year represent the most diverse ethnic mix ever!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp;Students in Brazil stepped up so that the Cru campus ministry in 18 states of Brazil grew to include all 40 of Brazil\u2019s states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so much more! Check it out at cru.org\/cru19 and your favorite social media #Cru19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2019-07-22-09.08.30-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2019-07-22-09.08.30-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2019-07-22-09.08.30-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2019-07-22-09.08.30-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2019-07-22-09.08.30-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2019-07-22-09.08.30-2.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 weeks after Steve\u2019s surgery (more on that in a moment) Rochelle, Josh and I flew out to Fort Collins, CO, and joined around 5000 or so of our fellow Cru staff for the Cru19 Staff Conference on the campus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-clarks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1743,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/1743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}