Jeff Bridgforth :: Webcraftsman

GodSquad.com helps launch new outreach in North Carolina

March 3, 2008

My work

This is a story that high­lights how one of the Web sites I develop is help­ing Cam­pus Cru­sade to reach stu­dents by launch­ing new ministries:

In North Car­olina, a pastor’s wife emailed Cam­pus Crusade’s staff want­ing to start a min­istry at Rich­mond Com­mu­nity Col­lege. By the time the staff met with her, the pastor’s wife had already estab­lished Cam­pus Cru­sade as a rec­og­nized group on her cam­pus, had 3 stu­dent offi­cers, a fac­ulty spon­sor and a church part­ner­ship. As stu­dents stood in line at the cam­pus book­store to buy their books for the semes­ter, the pastor’s wife was giv­ing away fly­ers direct­ing stu­dents to visit everystudent.com, an evan­ge­lis­tic Web site of Cam­pus Cru­sade. There was also infor­ma­tion on the flyer about a kick­off event that the min­istry was hav­ing the next week.

When the Cam­pus Cru­sade staff showed up at Rich­mond Com­mu­nity Col­lege to offer some coach­ing, the pastor’s wife had put together an out­reach with a live band, 600 slices of pizza and an iPod that had been donated by the church part­ner­ship. To enter to win the iPod, stu­dents were asked to fill out a “30 sec­ond sur­vey” that was down­loaded from God­Squad. The sur­vey gen­er­ated over 100 con­tacts of peo­ple inter­ested in small group Bible stud­ies or know­ing God per­son­ally. Over 60 stu­dents heard the gospel dur­ing the con­cert. God­Squad played a cen­tral role in help­ing to equip this pastor’s wife to begin the Cam­pus Cru­sade min­istry at Rich­mond Com­mu­nity College.