See Attachment 1, analysis by McGilchrist. Source: Dear Gang, 1968-3, Sanny. Several factors are explored. Table 1: New European Disciple-Makers, 1976-1983, In 1966, the Nav ministry by Korean nationals was launched. Our collegiate staff gathered at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in October 1992 for a retreat under the banner For the Sake of the Call. The papers for this retreat provide a picture of where our US campus ministry had reached, and what it was reacting against. Fifteen Americans arrived to join forces with sixty-five young Navigators from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. The result, within a few years, led to many young and enthusiastic staff who loved being Navigators and who invited their friends to join with them in the great adventure of the Edge Corps.. In 1948, YFC held the first post-war evangelical missions congress in Beatenberg, Switzerland. and Daws and I will be gone most of the year in connection with the Billy Graham campaigns.21 Scotty was one of the six. In Cyprus he began to work among high schoolers at the American Academy. However, the highlight was spiritual: The greatest sacrifices were made in obedience to Romans 12:1. Later, Phil and Ruth Ann Saksa from the US came to Reading. However, with many activities to be enjoyed, most students stayed for seven years. Web posting groups like GuideStar.com and Charity Navigator.com get their info from the 990 Forms. They dont have to chop wood, walk anywhere or do much of anything that requires muscles. . An excellent and informative history is. Although, sadly, the partnership dissolved as Bob moved to Bloomington with his new bride Marilyn, the operas continued at least through 1965. Secularization was spreading in Europe from the late 1970s, but the comparison above is also a tribute to the diligence and faith-filled energy with which the Lord supplied our Korean staff. In four days we spoke to seven houses with more invitations than we could handle. The prexy [president] of the Sigma Chis here at Pitt had it all lined up for me to stay in the Sig house down there so John lived with Nick Baldwin, the prexy of the IVCF on campus. We used to look down on anyone in Campus Crusade because they were, as we thought, just having fun, whereas we were serious about our faith. This was packed with students. Sanny reiterated our calling to work with young people, not only with servicemen. . Scotty recounts that the IVCF group at Macalester had been in feeble condition until Navigator key man Doug Sparks arrived on campus as a freshman in the fall of 1948. Source: Korea Reports to IHQ: 1971-72 to 1981-82. Undoubtedly, this will mean a structure that at times is messy around the edges and somewhat ambiguous, but by design that is okay. At the OPC, Sparks added that, because we are seeking the 90 percent of students who are not seriously committed to Christ, we will in due course find hungry students who will appreciate and relate themselves to us. . There was the G.I. That led Mark Gauthier (Cru), Jim Luebe (The Navigators) and I to invite the campus directors from seventeen different movements to meet at InterVarsity Press to draw up a new statement together. Source: Conversation with Steve Rugg, October 2012. For example, there was a Big Basement Bible Blast on Quad B of the Air Force Academy, and some performances in the bar of the White Horse Inn in Nebraska. Some observers in the blogosphere have taken a cautious stance Touchstone, for example but a few members of the press and some bloggers have been sharply critical of Campus Crusade's dropping "Christ" from our movement's name. These have top priority in getting personal attention, so that they may become not only healthy Christians, but faithful men able to teach others also.26, In the early 1950s, Daws spent many Saturday mornings with students who had been led to Christ by Bill Bright. Another implication of greater numbers involved in decision-making is the need for a strong frame of reference. Incidentally, the incoming Americans experienced some healthy cultural discomfort. It has to be said that similar observations about the climate and context would largely be true for the Dutch ministries in Delft and beyond. Voelkel (ibid) has an entire chapter describing how The Navigators ministered, beginning in late 1964 through Jim and Marge Petersen and extending by 1974 to Mexico and Costa Rica. Students in World Missions: A Brief History. An exception to the burgeoning student ministries in the UK was the unusual movement that Ed Reis was seeing in the city of London at St Helens Bishopsgate, where he discipled many of those reached in the pulpit teaching of the Reverend Dick Lucas. NavHistory articles should not be seen as position statements of Navigator leaders. . Crusade would come onto a campus with a full team of permanent staff, often fifteen or more, each prepared to do the work that IVCF expected students to do. Source: History of The Navigator Ministry, Jim Downing, May 4, 1995. The decade of the 1980s had seen a precipitous decline in the number of US collegiate staff. Meanwhile, Bob Stephens came to Christ at an Air Force Base near Pittsburgh, so Bright graciously released him from CCC. The Religious Life team of clergy, chaplains, and administrators welcome new students during Orientation Week and offer events . Dr. Sheri Dressler. . This program, therefore, helped to prepare the ground for what became fruitful student ministries in Europe, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Of course, there will be a major emphasis on using their respective campuses as an ideal mission field in which to put into practice the principles being taught.5. As Voelkel (1974)113 writes: Marxists appealed to the students idealism. Required fields are marked *. Bill providing funds for veterans of World War II to go to college. The century ended with a strong recovery. A large canvas backcloth created the illusion of moving down river as it was winched sideways, and a professional lighting system added to the impact. Typically, some 40 percent of those who graduate from the US Corps can be found on our staff five years later.134, In the providence of God, it was the generation of students who began to arrive as freshmen in 1994Gen Ywho were more open to the beauty of the Gospel. Now, CRU. The target was high school and college students.120 The Navigators had a strong presence, our team wearing identical red sports coats, and it included some forty Nav Koreans who came specially to help serve in the event. By the following year we were ministering on 106 US campuses and 116 military bases.119. With the World War II buildup of Armed Forces from mid-1941, the collegiate work again coasted along while Navigator resources were mobilized for the burgeoning servicemens ministry. This has continued fruitfully through the years as the basis and the resource for our other ministries in Brazil. Some of these new believers went out immediately to do evangelism, thus setting an energetic pace from the start. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriouslyno flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. In short order, putting his Nav training into practice, he led a number of fellow students to faith in Christ and was diligently following them up. Before that, I didnt really think much about god. His experience in Sheffield prompted Dowse to publish a new study series Learning to Live, intended to replace Design for Discipleship.91. By 1968, the Bob and Marilyn V. were moving to Lebanon53 and LeRoy had become one of our three divisional directors. . Student athletes, especially, came to Christ through CCC and attracted many other students. By 1970, the Lord led the core team to expand the ministry beyond Seoul. In an early example of international cooperation, Paul Yoo and two other Koreans joined in an evangelistic thrust to help Hugh Harris launch a new collegiate ministry in Kansai. Ian Munro from Eds London ministry moved with Ron Finlay to Southampton to begin a student ministry. He sought responses by April 1995, and appropriated Malachi 3:16 for his project. . . This has been the best ministry experience of my life. I could probably write a book about all my experiences, both good and bad with them., Your email address will not be published. Also, we appealed to engineering students who were practical and interested in how more than why. This fitted Navigator approaches which were still very how to oriented. . I wonder how many Christians there are who so thoroughly believe God made them that they can laugh in Gods name, who understand that God invented laughter and gave it to his children. Fryling reported that 25 percent of our students are African American, Asian American, Hispanic, Native American, or from other countries. He also discipled Roger Morgan in Cambridge who began reaching out to students. A lasting resurgence began in the Midwest from 1957, stimulated by LeRoy Eims and others. PAN covered most of Asia plus Australia and New Zealand and the islands of the Western Pacific. The Nordstroms returned to the US in 1981. Over 200,000 students were exposed to the good news of the gospel at the University of Arizona. Martin later opened our ministry in Liverpool, succeeding Pete Dowse and Alan Sims as country leader in 1996. These changes could be disruptive, especially to married families, but it was the way the Navs operated during that early stage of rapid expansion. These are transliterations from the NT Greek: This project was the precursor of our post-war collegiate ministries. The success of this extravaganza stimulated a flurry of new initiatives. Thus: Furthermore, the FES then wrote officially to the student group at the University of Singapore and told them not to cooperate with The Navigators. He was forced to keep his testimony sharp because he was under scrutiny and challenge twenty-four hours a day. They are convinced that learning comes in relation to experience and, thus, they are suspicious of education or the piling up of facts that cannot immediately be put into use or practice. Jim Chew highlights the importance of personal relationships, in this case through his father: My father, Dr. Benjamin Chew, was undoubtedly the key person who encouraged cooperation within the Body during the 1950s onwards. . . Responses from collegiate staff from around the world flowed in more slowly than anticipated. A large supporting cast was drawn from the Glen gang. Harold Ward definitely has it. The first year (from September 1966 to last summer) He gave us twelve students who made decisions for Christ. The student ministry in Mexico practiced short-term missions trips from 1969 onward, starting among indigenous peoples in Oaxaca and Chiapas. Bob and Johnny Sackett were on his team, and Ron Rorabaugh and Bob Stephens also came from Pittsburgh. Formosa became Taiwan in 1949. . Doug Nuenke and Tom Yeakley worked with Mike Jordahl in converting Mikes study of the Missing Generation into a case study139 in which they added a couple of probable additional causes. Fundamentals of the Nav Ministry Source: Chew to McGilchrist on March 3, 2015. One positive aspect for IV was their strong ministries among ethnics and internationals. Quite a few staff who had initially gone out as overseas missionaries from the US in the 1970s returned home, sometimes prematurely and often quite discouraged. This hard ground in the campus was combined with the prevailing Gen X philosophy of dont trust anyone over thirty years of age. Thus, our veteran staff were finding it increasingly difficult to relate to students due to their age. Henrietta Mears, Dick Halverson, Cyrus Nelson, Dan Fuller, Edwin Orr. Tried and proven ministry methods created and trained into the staff in the 1970s during the fruitful Jesus Movement among the Baby Boomers no longer worked. Then, for a decade until 1995, there came a slump. Although distinctive, it was not unique. you are perhaps doing the most strategic work that can be done.32. . It provided an answer for the social and economic crises that plagued their consciences. Staff training, which had typically been quite structured and programmed, declined when we moved to a functional rather than a geographical structure.