At AIA's Colorado Camp in Fort Collins, Colo., Pat (in blue) and other college athletes developed leadership and character by applying biblical principles—like motivation and perseverance—in a controlled competitive environment.

Outside Toronto, 9-year-old Pat Anderson sat with his friend, waiting in the yard for his friend's parents to come home and give permission for a night of fun at Pat's house. But when Pat's friend's parents drove home, after too much to drink, they missed the driveway and pinned Pat underneath their car.

Pat lost both of his legs.

"He never had any bitterness," says Marg Anderson, Pat's mother. "He just went on with life." Pat not only held no bitterness, but he also demonstrated God's love for the people who cost him his legs. "That little, redheaded, freckle-faced boy went back into their lives and opened his heart," says Marg.

Pat, now 20, attends the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana on a partial scholarship to play basketball—wheelchair basketball. And he still demonstrates godly love for others through sports. Athletics is an important facet of Pat's life—as is his faith—so it is natural that both come to play in his affiliation with Campus Crusade for Christ's Athletes in Action ministry.

Using his abilities as a stage for ministry, Pat's influence extends beyond the campus. In October Pat will play basketball for Team Canada, competing in the Para-Olympic Games in Sydney.

"A lot of people are investing their lives in me," says Pat. "I carry a little of each of them with me." This fall Pat will carry them all, and the love of God, to Australia. —Howard Hardegree

Bill Bright presents Campus Crusade for Christ's president-designate, Steve Douglass, and his wife, Judy, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on July 26.

Nearly 50 years ago God guided Bill and Vonette Bright to establish a movement that would help take the gospel to the entire world. Campus Crusade for Christ has taken great strides toward fulfilling that vision, and now includes 21,952 full-time staff members and almost 500,000 trained volunteers serving in 186 countries.

Today, at the dawn of the 21st century, Bill believes the time has come to begin passing on the torch of leadership. On July 26, 2000, he met with some 450 of Campus Crusade's worldwide leaders in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and named his successor as president—Steve Douglass. Staff members and Campus Crusade partners worldwide watched via satellite.

"God is gracious to give us such a gifted, godly leader in whom I have great confidence," Bill told the gathering. "I am excited about what God is going to do through him, and all of you, as you take this movement to a whole new dimension of ministry to the world for which Christ died."

Steve, a graduate of MIT with honors and of Harvard Business School in the top 2% of his class, joined Campus Crusade more than 30 years ago. His wife-to-be, Judy, was already a staff member at the time. As Steve's responsibilities have grown over the years, Judy has focused on ministering to and caring for the growing number of Campus Crusade staff women.

In his opening message to the worldwide staff team, Steve spoke to the future, emphasizing three points: 1) We will carefully preserve what must not be changed, such as a lofty view of the Word of God, a dependence on the Holy Spirit, our calling to help fulfill the Great Commission generation after generation, and many other concepts God has shown to Bill Bright and others over the years. 2) We must eagerly pursue God's new opportunites, for God has called this ministry to innovate for Jesus. 3) Most important, we must continue to love and serve God with our whole hearts.

"I have a dream," Steve declared. "That in the years to come—even more than in the past, if it be possible—we can so exude the joy of Jesus, be so filled with the Holy Spirit, be so dominated by our love of God that when people get near us, they are immediately attracted to Jesus Christ."

In the minds of many, Steve is a natural choice to follow Bill as president. While working closely with Bill for three decades, he has written books on personal management and challenged thousands to follow Christ through evangelistic messages such as "How to Get Better Grades and Have More Fun."

"I've always thought that the next president of Campus Crusade would need to be a man of integrity, gifted in evangelism, and able to handle accurately the Word of God," says Chuck Price, associate director of U.S. Ministries. "I've worked with Steve for many years, and he meets those criteria unbelievably well."

"Steve is a man who walks his talk," adds Thomas Abraham of India, vice president over Asia and Latin America. "He's a good model as a spiritual leader, and he continually witnesses as a way of life."

As president-delegate until July 1, 2001, Steve will spend the coming year preparing to take full responsibility as president. Bill announced his appointment this summer in order to provide for a seamless transition of responsibilities. "I plan to invest this year in praying, thinking and traveling around the world listening to staff members," says Steve.

"I think one of the greatest qualities Steve brings to this job is his desire to help every ministry in this organization to grow and stand and take new horizons and capture new hills for the cause of Jesus," says Paul Eshelman, director of Campus Crusade's JESUS Film Project Office.

A year of transition also allows staff members to gradually transfer their allegiance to Steve and to develop confidence that he is leading the ministry in the same spirit as did Bill Bright. "Bill Bright is the only president Campus Crusade has ever known," points out Bailey Marks, international vice president. "Our allegiance is to Christ, no question about that, but at the same time there is still an allegiance to the founder and director of this movement."

"It is difficult to think about having a new president," explains Mario Bloise, director of Campus Crusade in Argentina. "But knowing that Bill discipled Steve for 30 years, and that Steve has the same vision as Bill, assures me that he is not going to change the fundamentals." —Bill Sundstrom

Student Venture | Students in every state are expected to gather for prayer on their middle- and high-school campuses at the 11th annual "See You at the Pole" day, Sept. 20. To rally students around your local flag pole, call (817) HIS-PLAN (447-7526). To see what comes next, log onto http://www.ccci.org/pole/

Fasting and Prayer | Help fulfill the Great Commission by joining Christians in praying and fasting for the nation and the world in Orlando, Fla., on November 2-4. For more information or to register, go to www.fastingprayer.com or call 1-800-888-FAST.

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Campus Ministry
Thailand

Several Thai staff members with Campus Crusade for Christ ventured to Rachapat College in Lampang, Thailand, last year, unaware that God would use the philosophy department there to draw men and women to Himself. The staff members spoke with the assistant dean of humanities, who was both a philosophy professor and a Buddhist. Buddhism is the state religion in Thailand, yet Christianity and other foreign religions remain protected under the monarchy.

The claims of Christ deeply moved the assistant dean, and he received Christ. Afterward, he asked more than 40 of his students to meet with the Campus Crusade staff members on a weekly basis. By the end of the year, 30 students had received Christ, and the professor began to testify more boldly of his new faith.

When school started up again, the former Buddhist professor not only spoke to the Christian students at their opening evangelistic meeting, but he also sang his own translation of "Amazing Grace." Now the professor shares his newfound and growing faith with his students in hopes they will receive true enlightenment. —Mike Clapper


Keynote
Minsk, Belarus

Four hundred people in Minsk heard about Jesus through the music of the band 220, but not before the group experienced the reverberations of their efforts.

The 12 musicians—one of several groups that make up Keynote, Campus Crusade's music ministry—recently encountered problems as they headed from their base in Warsaw, Poland, to Minsk, Belarus, for a concert.

First, they haggled with the border patrol for 19 hours before being allowed to continue the seven-hour trek.

Then, in Minsk, they noticed the seal on the truck carrying their music equipment was broken. Team members feverishly began praying—an unsealed truck crossing the border is against the law.

By God's grace, Minsk customs officials let them through with no questions asked, and the concert went off without a hitch.

"I believe the team came to recognize that God's ways are indeed higher than ours," says lead vocalist Bob Kemp. "His plans, we simply believed, were not going to be thwarted—not by border officials, custom problems [nor] financial constraints." —Darcy Larson


Campus Ministry
Harrisonburg, VA

As part of an evangelistic outreach at James Madison University, Campus Crusade staff member Kim McCarty distributed homemade coupons to 150 international students. Tucked inside student "survival kits" (which included evangelistic books, videos and a music CD), Kim's coupons encouraged international students to call her for a visit to an American church, a shopping trip to Wal-Mart or a ride to the Social Security office. One coupon promised "dinner at Kim's."

Students from 94 nations of the world study at JMU, and Kim wants to make the most of it. She knows her offers of assistance will help create new friendships with these students, resulting in opportunities to introduce her new friends to Jesus. Thus Kim can carry the gospel around the world without leaving Virginia.

A visiting professor from abroad called Kim to redeem a coupon for free driving lessons. "This man came to our fall retreat, along with others from his region," says Kim. "Four of the professors trusted Christ and said they would share Christ's love with everyone back home." —Erik Segalini