I thought this was fun to see – how God continues to use Cru to reach college students with the gospel.
note: stats include faculty and high school although vast majority involved (93%) are college students.
A few thoughts:
- In college ministry, numbers like these are all the more incredible because every year you have to reload. Even maintaining the number of students involved requires a tremendous amount of work. It’s not like Cru just added 19,000 more students involved in the last decade. Those 48,367 students from 2006 graduated and are gone. 67,958 new students got involved.
- “Exposures” counts EveryStudent.com (a website of Cru campus ministry)Â in 2006 and 2016 (1996 being pre-internet) – Praise God for the internet! But obviously that skews the numbers a bit.
- “Decisions” does NOT count EveryStudent.com. If you include decisions made on EveryStudent.com, 84,859 and 378,564 trusted Christ in 2006 and 2016Â respectively.
This just represents one organization among many churches and organizations that are reaching an increasing number of college students. The best is yet to come in college ministry! I can’t wait to see what God does in the next decade through churches and organizations committed to doing the hard work of reaching college students with the gospel.