Sharing My Story

After my graduation from college in the
summer of 1970 I decided to do take post
graduate courses and also work as a student
volunteer with the local Campus Crusade
ministry on my college campus. That was
an exciting, exhilarating year. The goal of
the CCC movement was to actually reach
to entire campus of 9000 students for Christ.

The structure of the Campus Crusade campus
organization was a system of cell or “Action”
groups that served as forums for discipleship
and evangelism. A “Master Action” group
formulated the plan of evangelism for the
daughter Action Groups. Evangelism proceeded
on several formats. One was the mass meeting
speaker. We had Josh McDowell, fiery Christian
orator, apologist and debater on campus for
several days. He spoke on the Christian perspective
to the Sexual Revolution and other revelent topics.
Andre Kole, master illusionist turned out a large
crowd as he performed top notch magic illusions
and spoke about the difference between worlds
of illusion and the occult and the reality of Christ.
Small group presentations to Men and Women’s
dorms and individual religious surveys (“randoms”)
spread the Christian message as a solution to
meaning in the lives of students as well as a
coherent way of viewing the world.

By the end of the year Phil Fleming the CCC campus
director stated their were maybe only a few hundred
on the campus who had not been directly confronted
with the claims of Christ during that year.