What we're about

EXPERIENCE
THE GOSPEL TOGETHER
Hide n go seek was a fun game when we were kids. Now that we’re older the game has gotten more sophisticated, instead of hiding under the bed we now simply hide behind masks wondering if anyone is willing to seek out the real me. I like hide and go seek as long as people are willing to seek me out—it’s no fun hiding if no one is seeking. At Cru we want to seek one another out in safe genuine community without masks. To be involved enough to care, to care enough to act, to act in a way where we experience the truth and grace of the Gospel of Christ to bring healing to our hiding hearts.

EMBRACE
THE GOSPEL PERSONALLY
Your spiritual journey is your own. The pace at which you travel is up to you. But our hope is that along the way you encounter Christ—many times over. That you are enamored by His majesty and moved by His humility. That along the way you embrace Christ not just as the entrance to heaven, but as the treasure above all things both before and after the pearly gates.

EXTEND
THE GOSPEL TO OTHERS
If the world is broken and if Christ is the solution then those who embrace Him have a great privilege—a privilege to know Him, but also a privilege to join Him in his redeeming work in the world. From individual hearts to social and political systems, we desire to be engaged in the world being, doing, and saying the Gospel. We break it down like this. We want to be—Display—the Gospel in the way we live. We want to do—Demonstrate—the Gospel by stepping into the emotional and physical needs of those around us. We want to say—Declare—the Gospel to those who do not yet know Christ.

As you explore this site we hope that you will discover the various ways that we seek to engage in these three distinctive of Cru. From small group Bible discussions to large group worship gatherings, from the college campus to the city streets, from serving in Over the Rhine to serving in the brothels of India, and so much more in between, we hope that you will join in regardless of where you are on your spiritual journey.