Ministry Changes Name

Campus Crusade for Christ is changing its name. The Evangelistic ministry will be known in the future as Cru. Although the Orlando-based organization has kept Campus Crusade for Christ for more than half a century, the group wanted to get away from using "crusade" in its name because of the word's associations. Cru is a shorthand way of referring to Crusade that started more than a decade ago among CCC workers. Bill and Vonette Bright started the group in 1951 on the campus of UCLA. There are now some 25,000 full-time staffers around the world. Vonette Bright says her late husband would have approved of the name change.