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Daniel was adopted at a young age as was his sister.  Last year, his sister, still in high school, became pregnant with a baby girl.  Daniel felt like this little girl was his first real family.  His birth mother had abandoned him, his birth father had declined all opportunities to meet with him.  He was [...]

The Michal family is facing some changes this year.  Mark has been asked to be the new Director of Research and Development for Cru's High School ministry.  Unfortunately, this involves stepping away from our ministry in Fishers and a move to Orlando.   Get the scoop in the videos below and please keep us in [...]

“Mark, this is Nadia and she just prayed to receive Christ with me!” That is what Brynn, one of our Sophomore student leaders, said to me just before our Cru meeting a few weeks ago.  Nadia had grown up in a Muslim home here in the states but had heard about Jesus and, over time, [...]

 This summer a handful of our former students lead our summer ministry while we were away.  Kim came to Christ through Cru while she was in high school and continued to grow in her faith when she went off to college.  This summer, she helped some other college students lead our summer ministry here in [...]

This Summer we had an adventure.  We had two Cru conferences in Colorado with 4 weeks in between so we decided to take three weeks of vacation and one work week and spend the whole summer out west!  I put together a few videos of our adventure below...   ESTES PARK STUDENT CONFERENCE   THE [...]

Cru High School Summer Conference began June 10th in Estes Park, CO.  Our students arrived with great anticipation of time with friends in the beautiful Rocky mountains...

Over Spring Break I (Mark) had the opportunity to travel to Slovenia with a handful of teenagers to share the love of Jesus with the students there. Each day after school we had activities for the students we met and on Wednesday, Tinky (a Freshman) came to our Short Film Festival at a nearby coffeeshop.  [...]

We see some very cool stories happening all the time in our work with teenagers, but once in a  while something happens that just makes you say, “Wow”!  Here’s one of those stories.  Jenny got involved with Cru through a softball outreach that Dawn did with her team a few years ago.  She came from [...]