Cru (Campus Crusade for Christ) is a worldwide inter-denominational Christian ministry that has been around for 60 years! We exist to give every college student and faculty in the state of Utah an opportunity to know and follow Jesus. We are not about being "religious," but we are real people, asking real questions, and seeking real answers about life and God. We are an authentic community that is trying to figure what it means to follow Jesus.

Since its founding in 1951, Cru has existed to train and equip college students to impact the world around them by sharing the life changing message of the gospel with their family, friends, and fellow students. We want to help you grow in your relationship with God and equip you to share about Jesus with other students on your campus, and with others around you for a lifetime.

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Our Mission and Vision centers on following Jesus' command in Matthew 28:18-20, to "Go, and make disciples of all nations." Because the future leaders of our world are in college today, we believe the college campus to be a strategic place to reach the world for Christ.  Our prayer is that we would see dynamic spiritual movements on every campus in Utah, and in every part of the world, so that everyone knows someone that truly follows Jesus.

Our desire is to see growing spiritual movements led by students who follow Jesus, and are passionate about telling others about him. Our focus is giving every college student and faculty in Salt Lake City and the state of Utah an opportunity to hear the gospel, be built up in their faith, and be sent out into the world to be a light for God's kingdom, equipped to "make disciples" wherever God leads them.

Lifelines - lifelinesutah.com

"Lifelines is a leadership development program operated by our trained staff* for Utah college students. Our purpose is to help students grow relationally, spiritually, and in character and leadership skills. We specialize in helping groups like athletic teams, fraternities or residence halls learn to function better individually, and as a team (lifelinesutah.com)"

Contact: Mark Lovejoy

Utah Bridges International - utahbridgesinternational.org

Ministry focused on International students and scholars in the state of Utah

Contact: Keith Phinney

Utah Cross Culture Club - utahcrosscultureclub.org

"The Cross Culture Club exists as an opportunity for International Students, Scholars and their Spouses to make friends from around the world, to learn about American culture, practice your English and to finally have a place to ask why Americans do what they do! (utahcrosscultureclub.com)"

Contact: Keith Phinney

Faculty Commons - www.facultycommons.com

Faculty Commons is part of the global faculty network of Cru. We are men and women who love the academy, who find the person and works of Jesus of Nazareth to be satisfying and true, and who look to Him as the beautiful hope for the world.We are willing to wrestle with the ever-challenging question, “As a Christian, what should I do in the academy?”

Contact: Rob Gunn

The sole basis of our beliefs is the Bible, God’s infallible written Word, the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments. We believe that it was uniquely, verbally and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, and that it was written without error (inerrant) in the original manuscripts. It is the supreme and final authority in all matters on which it speaks.

We accept those areas of doctrinal teaching on which, historically, there has been general agreement among all true Christians. Because of the specialized calling of our movement, we desire to allow for freedom of conviction on other doctrinal matters, provided that any interpretation is based upon the Bible alone, and that no such interpretation shall become an issue which hinders the ministry to which God has called us.

1. There is one true God, eternally existing in three persons–Father, Son and Holy Spirit–each of whom possesses equally all the attributes of Deity and the characteristics of personality.
2. Jesus Christ is God, the living Word, who became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth. Hence, He is perfect Deity and true humanity united in one person forever.
3. He lived a sinless life and voluntarily atoned for the sins of men by dying on the cross as their substitute, thus satisfying divine justice and accomplishing salvation for all who trust in Him alone.
4. He rose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, in which He lived and died.
5. He ascended bodily into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God the Father, where He, the only mediator between God and man, continually makes intercession for His own.
6. Man was originally created in the image of God. He sinned by disobeying God; thus, he was alienated from his Creator. That historic fall brought all mankind under divine condemnation.
7. Man’s nature is corrupted, and he is thus totally unable to please God. Every man is in need of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
8. The salvation of man is wholly a work of God’s free grace and is not the work, in whole or in part, of human works or goodness or religious ceremony. God imputes His righteousness to those who put their faith in Christ alone for their salvation, and thereby justifies them in His sight.
9. It is the privilege of all who are born again of the Spirit to be assured of their salvation from the very moment in which they trust Christ as their Savior. This assurance is not based upon any kind of human merit, but is produced by the witness of the Holy Spirit, who confirms in the believer the testimony of God in His written word.
10. The Holy Spirit has come into the world to reveal and glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to men. He convicts and draws sinners to Christ, imparts new life to them, continually indwells them from the moment of spiritual birth and seals them until the day of redemption. His fullness, power and control are appropriated in the believer’s life by faith.
11. Every believer is called to live so in the power of the indwelling Spirit that he will not fulfill the lust of the flesh but will bear fruit to the glory of God.
12. Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church, His Body, which is composed of all men and women, living and dead, who have been joined to Him through saving faith.
13. God admonishes His people to assemble together regularly for worship, for participation in ordinances, for edification through the Scriptures and for mutual encouragement.
14. At physical death the believer enters immediately into eternal, conscious fellowship with the Lord and awaits the resurrection of his body to everlasting glory and blessing.
15. At physical death the unbeliever enters immediately into eternal, conscious separation from the Lord and awaits the resurrection of his body to everlasting judgment and condemnation.
16. Jesus Christ will come again to the earth–personally, visibly and bodily–to consummate history and the eternal plan of God.
17. The Lord Jesus Christ commanded all believers to proclaim the gospel throughout the world and to disciple men of every nation. The fulfillment of that Great Commission requires that all worldly and personal ambitions be subordinated to a total commitment to “Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.”