Ministry Highlights

2001-Present: Mid-Atlantic Regional Team

Spring 2000: Farewell to our first Bible Studies

Goodbye to our beloved students
  • The first group of students we mentored graduates, many of whom we worked with for all four years. A time of rejoicing and also tearful goodbyes.
  • John, Susan, Sarah and Jenn decide to join the staff of CCC.
  • JD and Carey (now married), participate in a one-year CCC internship before JD goes to law school.
  • Garrett enters a discipleship program with Pastor Tom Nelson and then goes to Dallas Theological Seminary.
  • Chris, Kristie, Annie and Emily choose to serve Christ in the marketplace.

Summer 1998: Egypt Summer Project Director

  • As the summer project directors in-country, we led a team of 8 students and staff to help train Egyptian Christians in evangelism and reach out to spiritually interested students throughout the city.
  • Luke also served as the project coordinator, handling all operational aspects of the project.
  • Our regional partnership helped establish and nurture the Campus Crusade ministry in Egypt throughout the 1990's, and by 1998 they had an indigenous, self-sustaining ministry in both Cairo and Alexandria. The Egyptian staff continually expressed gratitude to us for the impact we made in their country.

Summer 1999: School of Leadership in Ft. Collins, CO

  • Campus Crusade's School of Leadership is designed to develop staff in the areas of public speaking, theological foundations and spiritual leadership.
  • Learned spiritual leadership principles from experts like Howard Hendricks and Richard Pratt.
  • Focused on applying leadership tools in ministry, such as the leadership model, strategic planning, leading teams and the art of listening.

1997-2001: "Prime Time" Coach

  • Luke built and mentored a team of students devoted to increasing the capacity and quality of our weekly meeting ("Prime Time") to help it match our rapidly expanding movement. By 2001, there were as many as 8 students involved in running the weekly meeting, which welcomed over 400 students.
  • Focused on developing student ownership of Prime Time, which would allow for self-sufficiency after we left Virginia Tech.

Fall 1998: Veritas Forum Outreach at Virginia Tech

  • Week-long event brought many Christian groups together to work towards the common purpose of making Jesus an issue on campus.
  • Invited a panel of some of the nation's top Christian thinkers to address the truth claims of Christ and the Bible from a wide variety of academic angles (astrophysics, biochemistry and the social sciences).
  • Approximately 1000 people attended each event.
  • Over 130 students and professors requested more information or expressed an interest in discussing spiritual things.