16The Daily Tar HeelThursday, April 16, 1987
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Crusades: missions worth going the distance for
By BETH BUFFINGTON
Staff Writer
Traveling to the Middle East.
Europe. South America and the
Orienr sounds like a tourist's dream,
but for students in Campus Crusade
for Christ, it's a mission.
Every year. Chapel Hill's Campus
Crusade sends 20 to 30 of its members
to countries all over the world for
the purposes of converting people to
the Christian faith and building the
organization's members in their faith,
according to junior Bill Dowdy, who
joined Campus Crusade his freshman
year after attending one of their dorm
Bible studies.
"Basically what it (the interna
tional program) does is form teams
(with one partner from North Carol
ina and another from somewhere else
in the Unites States) and sends people
to the Middle East. South America,
Europe and the Orient." said senior
Margaret Smart, a Campus Crusade
member who took part in last
summers program in the Middle
East. "It varies country to country
as to what is actually done, but in
every country we do Evangelism
like in Japan and Europe, there's a
movie on the life of Jesus, and it's
hown on college campuses, and the
whole summer program will be
showing this movie which has been
translated for that country's
language.
"We looked for English speakers
first, since that's the only way we
could talk to them, but we didn't have
much of a problem (communicating),
since most people spoke English. But
for instance, in Argentina though,
you had to go through the college
students (first) or (already know how
to) speak Spanish," Smart said.
One of the students' main goals,
however, was to try to learn some
of the native language. In their
training programs, they were given
a list of things to buy at the market
and maps as guides, Smart said, but
the guides could only help them so
much. "We had to learn how to
communicate with the people first."
she said.
"In our country (a country in the
Middle East whose name can't be
disclosed for protection of the type
of missionary work going on there),
my partner and I made friends with
the natives and shared our belief in
Christ and the New Testament and
on who Jesus was, and we also
showed the Jesus film," Smart said
about her two month stay.
"There were 50 people there, half
girls and half guys, from all over the'
United States, and you and your
partner would walk around and meet
people," Smart said. She still writes
five of the native girls she befriended.
Junior Karen Thompson, who
spent two months in Argentina with
Crusade, also made close ties. "There
was a tremendous response. Person
ally. 1 was in a country to go and
learn about people by camping out
with the natives or sleeping on dirt
floors with them. They accepted us
and took us in and were really open
to the Gospel," Thompson said.
Pharmacy student Kathy
McClure, who has never been over
seas, is planning her one-month
summer trip to a country in East Asia
or Central Europe. "I've been doing
- -research on the country -Tra going tOy
and 111 get trained for it in .July and
then go straight over there." McClure
said.
She has been collecting items to
take over, including T-shirts and
souveniers. "You make friends and
vou want to leave them with some-
people, getting to know them,"
McClure said. "As Americans, we
can let them know what it's like to
be an American Christian, and we
explain that Christianity is more than
just believing what is right and
thing because they love American wrong. We try to explain to them
things with English words on them, that it's a personal relationship with
It's obvious that you're an American Christ."
when you're overseas so well just be About 1.000 to 1,300 Amencan
walking around mainly talking to' students from Campus Crusade
groups throughout the nation went
overseas to places like Europe, the
Middle East. Argentina, the Philli
pines. Africa and Asia. This summer,
Paris will also be included in this list,
according to Byron Peters with
Campus Crusade.
"There's 50 (students) from all over
the country. Each has their own job
and responsibilities for the testimony
testimony of the real Christianity,
and the kids are just super. They all
have impeccable morality, kindness
they're just good kids, and good
PR for Chrisianity." Peters said.
committed to tactful, initiative Evan
gelism logically, sensibly, and
intelligently presenting the claims of
Christians to everyone and then
leaving the decision up to the people.
The decison's theirs."
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