A freshman walks into her history class in a daze. Her boyfriend broke up with her the night before and she feels so alone. "Does anyone really care about me," she wonders.

It's Monday morning and a junior wakes up late and misses his morning class again. As he gets out of bed, it hits him that getting drunk and partying every weekend is leaving him empty. He wonders, "is there more to life than this?"

The professor is lecturing but the student is not really listening. He lives in a country that has told him since the time he was born that there is no God. But he questions what he's been taught. "Does God exist?" he asks.

These dramas play out every day on every campus in every country. Students everywhere are hungry to hear about a real God who is there and deeply loves them. They want to hear about Jesus and His offer of forgiveness.

Students are what the Campus Ministry is about. The most influential leaders in all walks of life come from the college campus. The most mobile and accessible labor force for the Great Commission is today's college students. Doesn't it make sense that students are on God's heart? We believe it and that's why we are here. The Campus Ministry is believing God for something new and radically different than anything we have ever seen God do in the lives of college students. There are 60 million college students in the world. And we believe each one deserves at least one chance to hear about Jesus Christ.

The Campus Ministry cannot reach every student alone. The vision requires multiple strategies, full-time laborers and volunteers. That is why we place Campus Crusade staff on campuses to minister to students. Reaching every student is why we have an international emphasis, and why we have a targeted outreach to ethnic students. It is why we partnership with churches and volunteers to reach campuses where we do not have any full-time staff.

Believing God for reaching 60 million students. This is the heart of the Campus Ministry.

Campus Crusade for Christ was founded in 1951 by Bill and Vonette Bright. Bill was studying late one night for a Greek exam while a student at Fuller Theological Seminary. He received a unique impression from God to invest his life in helping to reach the entire world, starting with college students. A professor friend suggests, "Campus Crusade for Christ" as the name of the new ministry. In the fall, Bill and his wife Vonette, start Campus Crusade for Christ at UCLA with the backing of a 24-hour prayer chain.

Today, Campus Crusade for Christ is active on most major college campuses in the United States and overseas as well. It has also expanded beyond the college campuses to include over 40 different ministries including Athletes in Action, Student Venture (for highschool students), the Military Ministry, Family Life, and Christian Embassy in Washington D.C. CCC can be found in 172 countries with over 16,000 full time staff and 200,000 trained volunteers.

The World Headquarters of CCC is located in Orlando, Florida and is the administrative home of all the ministries of the organization.

The sole basis of our beliefs is the Bible, God's infallible written Word, the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments. We believe that it was uniquely, verbally and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, and that it was written without error (inerrant) in the original manuscripts. It is the supreme and final authority in all matters on which it speaks.

We accept those areas of doctrinal teaching on which, historically, there has been general agreement among all true Christians. Because of the specialized calling of our movement, we desire to allow for freedom of conviction on other doctrinal matters, provided that any interpretation is based upon the Bible alone, and that no such interpretation shall become an issue which hinders the ministry to which God has called us.

1. There is one true God, eternally existing in three persons—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—each of whom possesses equally all the attributes of Deity and the characteristics of personality.
2. Jesus Christ is God, the living Word, who became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth. Hence, He is perfect Deity and true humanity united in one person forever.
3. He lived a sinless life and voluntarily atoned for the sins of men by dying on the cross as their substitute, thus satisfying divine justice and accomplishing salvation for all who trust in Him alone.
4. He rose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, in which He lived and died.
5. He ascended bodily into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God the Father, where He, the only mediator between God and man, continually makes intercession for His own.
6. Man was originally created in the image of God. He sinned by disobeying God; thus, he was alienated from his Creator. That historic fall brought all mankind under divine condemnation.
7. Man's nature is corrupted, and he is thus totally unable to please God. Every man is in need of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
8. The salvation of man is wholly a work of God's free grace and is not the work, in whole or in part, of human works or goodness or religious ceremony. God imputes His righteousness to those who put their faith in Christ alone for their salvation, and thereby justifies them in His sight.
9. It is the privilege of all who are born again of the Spirit to be assured of their salvation from the very moment in which they trust Christ as their Savior. This assurance is not based upon any kind of human merit, but is produced by the witness of the Holy Spirit, who confirms in the believer the testimony of God in His written word.
10. The Holy Spirit has come into the world to reveal and glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to men. He convicts and draws sinners to Christ, imparts new life to them, continually indwells them from the moment of spiritual birth and seals them until the day of redemption. His fullness, power and control are appropriated in the believer's life by faith.
11. Every believer is called to live so in the power of the indwelling Spirit that he will not fulfill the lust of the flesh but will bear fruit to the glory of God.
12. Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church, His Body, which is composed of all men and women, living and dead, who have been joined to Him through saving faith.
13. God admonishes His people to assemble together regularly for worship, for participation in ordinances, for edification through the Scriptures and for mutual encouragement.
14. At physical death the believer enters immediately into eternal, conscious fellowship with the Lord and awaits the resurrection of his body to everlasting glory and blessing.
15. At physical death the unbeliever enters immediately into eternal, conscious separation from the Lord and awaits the resurrection of his body to everlasting judgment and condemnation.
16. Jesus Christ will come again to the earth—personally, visibly and bodily—to consummate history and the eternal plan of God.
17. The Lord Jesus Christ commanded all believers to proclaim the gospel throughout the world and to disciple men of every nation. The fulfillment of that Great Commission requires that all worldly and personal ambitions be subordinated to a total commitment to "Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.