Last year we sent out first Expedition Stint team. This team travels to a new city and country each month to launch and build spiritual movements. On an Expedition stint, the goal is to find key volunteers who are believers and can build movements on campuses with no current group reaching college students with the gospel. These stint teams are standing in the gap -- where there are 118 major university cities with no known efforts to reach college students with the gospel.
In addition to sending a year-long team, we recently sent out an Expedition team for the month of November who launched a movement in Poland. And at the beginning of February we sent out two teams of Cru staff and interns to western Russia, which I wrote about in my last newsletter. As our teams wrap up their time there, it's fun to hear how God's used them the last couple weeks. Here's another update from the Nizhniy team: "We are wrapping things up in Nizhniy Novgorod and preparing to head to Moscow for debriefing on Saturday. We cannot believe that our time is almost done, but we are ready to leave the ministry in the hands of our key volunteers. God has provided us with an amazing group of students to continue spreading the Good News on the campuses of the city. Our second student meeting last week was another great success. We had even more students than the first one! We shared with them the principle of spiritual multiplication, that is, teaching people to teach people who can teach people: Jesus poured his life into twelve men who poured themselves out for others, who taught others, etc. We also taught them one way to help them multiply their faith: how to lead a Bible study." On Friday the team had their final meeting with students to commission and encourage them to keep moving forward with the ministry that's begun. These teams of students have a vision that God can use them to reach their city with the gospel. Long-term Cru staff in Russia coach student leaders from a distance, and are able to train them regularly in discipleship and evangelism. Please join in praising God for what He has done in Nizhniy Novgorod this month and pray that the students would take up the challenge to continue reaching out to their lost friends and classmates with the love of Christ.
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