This month, members
of Utah State University’s Cru Club initiated a new mission statement in order
to better fulfill its goal of connecting people to Jesus Christ.
“We are part of
a larger international organization that makes itself known to students on
campus,” said student intern Ryan Toth. “We promote Christianity but are not a
part of a particular denomination.”
Until recently
the club’s mission statement was “to turn students into Christ laborers.” Now,
it is to “Love God. Love people. Make disciples.”
“People in our
group didn’t seem excited about the previous mission statement,” said Cru
leader Will Shugart who initiated the change. “It wasn’t working to accomplish
our goal and it didn’t seem to set the tone.”
Although Shugart
has been in favor of a new mission statement since he became an official member
two semesters ago, he said the change was unintentional.
“We weren’t
trying to change it,” Shugart said. “I was just talking to one of the staff
members and during our conversation the new mission statement just came up.”
According to
Shugart, the previous mission statement was difficult for USU students to
understand.
“I have been encouraging
members to create a simple mission statement to explain what Cru is all about
at Utah State,” Shugart said. “Students
who are not involved with Cru weren’t grabbing on to it like we wanted them
to.”
Cru leader
Jordan Hartman hopes the new mission statement will motivate students to act on
what they believe.
“We believe a
lot in fellowship and basically coming together and sharing the word of
Christ,” Hartman said. “Hopefully now students will better understand what we
are about and as a result want to become involved with Cru.”
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