Consider partnering with Crossroads through financial support

We have just completed a great year at Georgia Tech. As the school year has ended we want to share the opportunity for strategic giving with those who want to partner with our ministry at Georgia Tech.

The need on campus:

Twenty-thousand students on the brink of adult life…..

Representing dozens of nations…..

At a top-ten U.S. public university…..

Most having no spiritual compass for their lives…..

An estimated 90% will not darken the door of a church during their  time here…….

Most will not have a Christian friend……

Hardly any will read the Bible…..

How will they hear? 

We are embedded in the Georgia Tech community.  We are engaged with students in a strategic mission. We are expectant of the Lord for immediate and lasting fruit.

Our Current Funding Need:

Campus Crusade for Christ's Campus Director, Trent McEntyre, is requesting mid-year donations to meet a current need of $25,000. Any donation is appreciated. You can give through our secure website at https://give.ccci.org/give/View/6206612 

Thanks for your prayers and support!

Trent

Miami Spring Break Memories -

M*I*A*M*I

Sleeping on a church floor.

Exploring the reefs. 

Feeding the homeless. 

Working in the streets.  

Living together. 

Reading the Word.

Showing Miami’s brightest students

The love of the Lord. 

M*I*A*M*I

Crossroads Spring Break Trip to Miami

An Alternative Spring Break to Miami, FL

SAQ’s (Sometimes Asked Questions)

What is this trip all about?  We are going to enjoy a combination of fun, rest, service, travel and culture. Crossroad’s sister group, University of Miami CRU, invited us to come get a taste of life in Miami and help one of their partner organizations, Caring for Miami. In the end we want you to be glad you did something different, exciting, and memorable with your Spring Break.

Who can attend? Any Georgia Tech student or friend can come. This is not really a mission trip. We will serve the needy in Miami in practical way. We will have some opportunities to learn spiritually, but they will be optional.  

Where exactly are we going and how are we going to get there? We are going to Miami - actual downtown Miami. We will hit the beach while we are there. We will travel in our own cars - it is about 13 hours from Atlanta. I know that is long, but it is worth it. But think about it this way: It is 7 hours to PCB (Panama City Beach) and it will average 65 degrees. It will average 82 in Miami. 

I will post again soon with the schedule and some more information about activities. 

If you would like to go you can sign up and pay on our registration website:

https://www.conferenceregistrationtool.com/conferenceInfo.seam?conferenceId=924

What difference does Emmanuel make among Georgia Tech students? Part 2

Here is part two of a reflection on why we do what we do at Georgia Tech.

Emmanuel Compels Georgia Tech Students to Make a Difference


As we come to the time to celebrate Christmas, our hearts are full of joy in the beauty of God with us, our Emmanuel. What does this mean for the typical Georgia Tech student? Here are examples 6-12! (like the twelve days of Christmas)

6. For Anna, a senior psychology major, the beauty of God With Us means going to spend next year in Bosnia, a predominantly Muslim country where the people are in desperate need of the healing power of the Gospel of Christ.

Anna uses her musical gifts at Tech and in Bosnia.

7. For Matt, a 6th-year Management major, the beauty of Christ is compelling him to join staff with Campus Crusade for Christ so that he can go long-term to East Asia to share the good news of God’s love with atheist students who are longing for something to fill the emptiness in the hearts.

8. For Madeleine, a petite Physics senior and gifted Bible teacher, Emmanuel gives a passion to be an academic in the hard sciences, specifically so that she can speak of the truth and love of Jesus Christ into that community.

9. God With Us fills Chris, now a first-year grad student in Electrical Engineering, with an ability to pursue relationship with his lab-mates who hail from all over the world. He invites them to his iGroup, has conversations in the lab, and gets to know them so that he can share the beauties of Christ with them.

Chris, Daniel and friend on campus.

10. Across the board, the beauty of God with us gives hope to the typical Georgia Tech student that there is something more to this life than making good grades, so you can get a good job, so you can make a lot of money, so you can get a bigger house, nicer car, or cooler technology. The beauty of God with us lifts their eyes to see the bigger picture of eternal beauties – even for the most logical and left-brained of them!

What difference does Emmanuel make among Georgia Tech students? Part 1

At Crossroads we love watching God work through students to give many students at Tech an opportunity to see what a difference having a relationship with Christ makes in your life. Our staff, Becca Gartrell reflected on this in a piece she wrote for us recently with a Christmas theme. As you read this, join us in thanking Christ, our Emmanuel, for what He is doing here.

"Emmanuel Compels Georgia Tech Students to Make a Difference"

As the semester comes to a close, we find ourselves looking at the work of God and standing in awe. What a God we serve! With 80 students in our iGroups [investigative Bible studies] or coming to our weekly worship gathering, we marvel that God would allow us – such weak creatures! – the privilege of being such a significant part of these students’ lives.

As we come to the time to celebrate Christmas, our hearts are full of joy in the beauty of God with us, our Emmanuel. What does this mean for the typical Georgia Tech student? Here are five things for part 1!

1. Instead of facing the tremendous pressure of an institution like Georgia Tech on their own, students have a wonderfully powerful God who strengthens and upholds them.



We have a tight knit group of student leaders. Devi,

2. Students who are about to graduate and are looking for jobs or applying to grad school can rest in the knowledge that God is in control, and His plan is good. (Since I don’t know a single GT student who is an under-achiever, there is little concern that this knowledge will lead to laziness.)

3. As our students develop their considerable leadership gifts through our ministry, we can trust that God’s Spirit is giving them the humility and power to lead in all spheres of life with integrity and godliness.

4. For Devi, a pre-med sophomore, the reality of Emmanuel means reaching into the pre-med community and inviting her classmates to come study God’s Word so that they can meet the Great Physician and become better future doctors themselves.

5. For Mac, an RA on a freshman floor, the beauty of God With Us means inviting his freshman guys to come study the Bible and praying for their lives to be radically changed as a result.

Thankful to bring the gospel within arms reach of students at Georgia Tech

McEntyre Family

The friendly meat section manager at the Publix near  Georgia Tech offered my little girls each a helium filled balloon. With huge grins on their faces we started walking toward checkout. "Oh no!" my oldest cried out. Now the balloon was bouncing against the ceiling a good 25 feet up. The string dangled down, but was still a good ways out of reach of my vertical leaping ability. Of course we all tried. It was simply beyond arms reach. Even if you had Michael Jordan's leaping abilities, you would need an extension ladder.

One way our ministry at Georgia Tech can be described is as an extension of God's grace. We strives to bring the gospel within arms reach of students. Honestly, most Georgia Tech students did not grow up with the gospel at arms reach. Maybe they could google the word "gospel", but they did not know someone who truly followed Jesus Christ. Most students today acknowledge that God exists but they are far short of knowing how to have a personal relationship with God.



Becca Gartrell (Crossroads staff), Claire and Will Barnes (Crossroads alumni), Trent McEntyre (Crossroads director), Deepak Nair (Crossroads and ChristChurch intern), and Greg Ashworth (Crossroads staff) at a recent Crossroads tailgate gathering before the GT/Miami football game.



Through personal relationships with students, small group Bible studies in dorms and Greek houses, and contextualized opportunities on campus we bring the life changing good news of Jesus Christ within arms reach.



 We are so thankful for the openness of students at Georgia Tech right now. It amazes me that so many students possessing so much potential for leadership in society are so open to friendly, in-person opportunities to explore what the Bible says about God and man. I am thankful for the team of staff I am privileged  to serve with. I am thankful to people in the community who pray for us and support us financially.

I am thankful for all that the LORD has and is doing to bring the gospel within arms reach of students at Georgia Tech. We know the need. We truly want Crossroads to multiply loving, compelling extensions of God's grace to Georgia Tech students.

"Missions month" celebrates the potential to send missionaries from Tech

Crossroads is a movement that originated from the vision of man named Bill Bright at UCLA back in 1951. They believed that the college campuses possessed untapped resources for changing the world. The motto became "win the campus today, the world tomorrow."

Today Crossroads at Georgia Tech is fulfilling this motto. By God's grace we are seeing our campus won to the amazing love of God in Christ and students are being sent out all over the world to win still more to be followers of Jesus Christ.

We celebrated this recently through a series at our weekly meetings the students called "Missions Month."

Each week a student shared their heart and experiences going to an international mission field. The first week Darin shared why he is planning to go to Bosnia. "I am going to Bosnia because I know it is part of God's plan for his glory to have worshippers from every people group in the world." He is burdened by how few in Bosnia currently know Christ.

Andy (Student who organize missions moth) and Darin (who is planning on going our mission trip to Bosnia)

A special highlight of "Missions Month" was guest appearances of Georgia Tech Alumni who now serve as missionaries in strategic places in the world. Ben Jackson (IE '03) shared about his calling to take his wife and young children to Bosnia long term. He will join GT grads Josh Irby (IE '99), Jonathan and Ashley Trousdale (forgot their degrees - '01?).

Finally, we had a moving talk one night from John G.(IM '95). John has served in various capacities as a missionary and movement leader in East Asia. He challenged us and inspired us with stories of how the gospel is reaching thousands and changing the society where he serves.

The bottom line of "Missions Month" is that Georgia Tech is wonderful training ground for missionaries. Every year we have seen talented young men and women raised up to lead missions efforts both short and long term. Our focus on Bosnia is yielding lasting fruit. All this energizes what we do on campus day to day at Georgia Tech.