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Our Capital Region students lead out in Outreach efforts this week at Epicenter conference!

johnandellen — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:31:55 +0000

Our Capital Region students lead out in Outreach at the Epicenter 2012 conference

Kailee and Becca are two of our students involved in our movements at local campuses in the Capital Region who attended our Epicenter Experience conference in Albany this week. They both experienced some great opportunities to reach out to students and other people right here in the Capital Region with 288 other students at the conference on Wednesday afternoon of this week. Some students served at the Homeless Shelters and some looked for ways to start spiritual conversations on campuses and in downtown areas. Kailee and Becca share their stories below from the stage of the conference! We praise God for their steps of faith and especially for the young man who works at Dunkin Donuts who received Christ!

Thank you for praying for and financially supporting this ministry so that we, together with you, can be a part of investing in the lives of students for the King’s eternal purposes!

By His Grace each day,

The End of the Year and “I can’t find love because…”

johnandellen — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:03:24 +0000

…I’ve slept with too many people to know what love is” was what one student said when Ellen asked each of approximately 25 students to jot
down something we could pray for them for. Can you imagine being so broken and aware that you’re willing to ask a complete
stranger to pray for this area of your life?! This student isn’t alone… Read more in the newsletter below.

: October and November Newsletter

As we close out the End of the Year

We are so grateful to all of you for praying for our ministry and giving financially to us this year. We have had some challenges financially and yet God has provided again and again. We know he will provide again this year as long as he calls us to serve him here. At the end of this year, our needs are greater than in years past. For many of you this may also be the case. We are confident that God continues to call us to work for the Gospel to grow in and through college students. As we move into 2012 we are praying for $10,000 in additional funding to make up for shortfalls. If you have already taken a new financial step of faith with us recently, thank you. If not, and you haven’t had a chance to do so yet:

Would you make a gift of $50, $200 or $500 to help us contine to reach college students for Christ?

To give online just click below the button below. All gifts made before December 31 at midnight are tax-deductible for the 2011 year.

Thank you again, and we wish you a very safe and Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

johnandellen — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:03:55 +0000

We just wanted to take a moment to express our gratitude and continued thanks for all your faithful support and prayers for us on this very special day! We celebrate today Jesus coming to earth as a humble child born to a poor family, yet born to save us from our sin.

Merry Christmas! This video is for you from us at Campus Crusade for Christ.

Campus Crusade for Christ — Christmas Thank You from Masterworks on Vimeo.

How to Get 350 students Registered in less than 5 minutes!!

johnandellen — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:32:05 +0000

JUST KIDDING! We would never ask anyone to do anything THAT impossible, but we would love to have your help with something!

There’s a unique opportunity to not only see what it is we do at a conference, but to serve with us as well!

students registering for winter conference

You may remember seeing in our newsletters the last couple years that Ellen has been the Registration Coordinator for the Northeast’s Winter Conference. In past years it has been in Boston, MA. This year it is at the Holiday Inn in Albany NY! What an exciting thing for us this year! Ellen once again will be registration coordinator while John is on Daddy duty!

The reason for this email is to ask if you would be interested in helping Ellen with registration! The conference starts on January 2nd. In the past we all volunteers have been students, but with it being in a new location there is an opportunity for others to help as well. Ellen needs a total of 30 volunteers and is hoping for maybe half to come from the community. If you would like to help with this, please email Ellen for details ellen@JohnAndEllenFleming.com She would love to fill you in.

Thanks in advance for considering this opportunity and also for your prayers and support to enable us to participate in a conference like this where student’s lives are impacted!

“Dis-skype-leship” with students

johnandellen — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:18:10 +0000

John video chatting with a student

Lately it has been cool to use a new tool in ministry with college students: Skype, a video chat program that is very popular amongst college students. It often seems in our world of busy schedules and lots of travel that students can be really busy and carving out a half hour or more to get coached can be tough sometimes. Most people using email are already on Gmail, a popular email website, which automatically comes with video chat capability too, called Google Talk which is integrated right into the sidebar when you are checking email. These opportunities save time, gas, and are more fruitful than a simple phone call that doesn’t necessarily show the facial expressions we all use all the time when talking with people. Thus far, John has been using it more this semester than ever, video chatting with 3 or 4 students in a week, sometimes. Of course it will never rival the face to face experience, but it does get close! We are grateful to use technology to help us win build and send students for Christ!

“I never heard [the Gospel] like that before”

johnandellen — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:30:49 +0000

… were the words from one of many freshmen featured in our latest newsletter and that we have met this past fall in what has been a wild and exciting time of engaging the campuses with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And this not just in words, but in deeds. Read in our latest newsletter, by clicking on the image of the letter below, about our adventures this fall on campus.

Thank you for praying as we engage students spiritually on campuses of New York’s Capital Region like HVCC and RPI and beyond. You can download this newsletter by clicking on any of the images below. We hope it encourages you!

Fall 2011 Newsletter

Our New and Improved Website!

We totally revamped our website with a new look and feel, with more connections to Facebook and the like! =) Check it out by clicking on the image below.

New updated Website

Happy Thanksgiving!!

We are so thankful this Thanksgiving weekend to be surrounded in prayer by faithful partners in ministry without whom we would not be able to serve effectively on campus, impacting students for eternity. We have so many reasons to be grateful and so we thank you for your prayers and support! We had a chance to look at some old baby pictures of John while we were with his family this week and found some fun pictures. You can see a resemblance between Madeline and John as babies! Check out the image below in closer detail by clicking on it!

Please Pray for our Gospel Presentations today and tomorrow

johnandellen — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:50:25 +0000

Dear friends and family,
Just wanted to ask for your prayer today as both Ellen and I are presenting the Gospel at different opportunities this week. She will present some gospel truth to students at the College of St. Rose today. Also for John as he shares his heart tomorrow night in a presentation at our large monthly gathering of all the students in our ministry (we call it “City Wide”) here in the Capital Region. Thank you for your act of sacrifice in prayer and more!

God Speed!

A thank you from Cheeia to CRU

johnandellen — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:58:53 +0000

If you’ve ever wondered what Campus Crusade for Christ (soon to be called Cru) is all about, then Cheeia’s video of thanks expresses well what we are all about when it comes to college students:

Cheeia Lo Tells her story

Why we do what we do!

johnandellen — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:49:10 +0000

I hope you enjoy this video clip about our movement in Madison, Wisconsin. It is a great example of why we do what we do! =)

What a Summer of Changes it has Been!

johnandellen — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:53:36 +0000

What a Summer of Changes it has Been!
We have already started into our fall on most campuses and yet so much has happened over this past summer!! After a fanastic experience at the Boston Operations Summer Project from the end of May until July 1, we headed home and prepared for the birth of our baby (more below). Before blasting you with all sorts of great pictures of our new baby, we want to share with you about what has been happening this past summer. This “Summer Edition” newsletter is lengthy, but features the announcement of the new name for our U.S. organization, a newsletter from our students at the Boston Operations Summer Project, and a couple great pictures and news of our baby. Please pray as we engage students in spiritual conversations on the campus of HVCC, and on the campus of RPI, and beyond. You can download this newsletter by clicking on any of the images below. We hope it encourages you!

Summer 2011 Newsletter

New Name for U.S. Parent Ministry is now “Cru”!

As you may have seen in the news and online, our parent ministry in the U.S. has been renamed to “Cru”, which has actually been in use for some time since the 1990′s in many areas of the country but only this fall will it become official. We are happy about this name change not because of losing the “Christ” or even “Campus” so much, but because of losing the “Crusade” part. Our friend and coworker on staff with us posted some really great video and discussion about the name change. You can read about “Is Campus Crusade dropping Christ?” or “Responding to Fox News Spin of Cru” or “The “Business” of Cru” on his blog which we feel provide really great food for thought and exchange on the process of changing our ministry’s parent organization’s name and all the reasons for this. Of course our local ministry name is still Real Life, so locally it won’t make a big difference for those we have been serving or who have heard only of our local name.

What is does Cru mean?

Summer Project Videos to share from Boston

As promised, we wanted to share just a couple videos from some of our students who entirely produced them on their own.

The first is critical to watch as my brother Ed Fleming was one of our students on the project and illustrated all of it, while one of our local students, David Rice, from HVCC, whom i had the honor of discipling this summer:

The 5 Things from CCCNEHQ on Vimeo.

The second is a SILENT video made for the hearing impaired community. Many of our Cru students at RIT are apart of such a community and so this is a great tool for evangelism and ministry to their peers. This video was made by Emily Parker, another one of our project students we enjoyed getting to know and work with:

Baby Madeline Mae Fleming is here!

We are proud to announce the birth of our lovely daughter, and though you can read the details in our newsletter on her height and weight, here are some wonderful pictures for you to see! (click on the picture to see more pictures)

Thank you for your prayer and financial support that makes it possible to serve the Lord and these students! We appreciate all the extra meals and care we have been blessed with both directly from you and indirectly through prayer!
God Speed!