This summer, a number of our staff and students joined a group of 120 strong in the Tribeca Summer Project in New York City. This training and outreach time is unique in its five “ministry tracks” placing staff and students in ministry opportunities all around this great city of 8.5 million.
The linked report details our activities on each of the Tribeca tracks. Perhaps the participants were artists discovering, for the very first time, how to integrate their Christian faith and artistic pursuit; others were learning to reach out to talented international scholars at Columbia or New York University; there also were students from rural backgrounds getting a major taste of inner-city outreach to the poor and homeless of Brooklyn. For most of June and July, our group learned to love this great and complex city in new ways. Some are being stirred to return to minister in New York, others will take their learning and apply it (very soon) back on their own campuses. All were changed by the experience of following Christ together in this metropolis.
As you read the Tribeca report, we welcome your prayers for our ongoing and expanding outreach to the nearly one million students of New York City! There are many challenges and many opportunities to proclaim Christ here among students of every imaginable ethnic and economic background. Thank you for your participation with us in reaching out to the students of the Northeast.
Serving with You,
Geoff & Michelle for the Northeast Leadership Team
Campus Crusade for Christ
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