{"id":12172,"date":"2023-05-16T14:30:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T21:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/high-school\/go-to-the-campus\/?p=12172"},"modified":"2026-01-11T08:12:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:12:56","slug":"whats-it-like-to-be-on-staff-with-cru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/high-school\/go-to-the-campus\/whats-it-like-to-be-on-staff-with-cru\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s it like to be on staff with Cru?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Okay, let’s say you are sold out for Jesus and you would love to spend your best hours helping win, build, and send high school students. But you want to know, what is it REALLY like to be on staff with Cru?<\/p>

Everyone’s staff experience will be different, but here is a good general picture of life on staff with Cru.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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As Cru field staff, you need to have a basic level of responsibility and self-motivation. Why? Because on the whole, YOU will be in charge of your schedule.<\/p>

Serving with Cru, you will not punch a clock, fill out a timesheet, or provide a minute-by-minute account of your activities to your team leader. You will have great freedom in how to carry out the basic mandate to win, build, and send students.<\/p>

So rather than every day from 9 to 5, your 40 hours of work may be distributed very differently throughout the week.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Every day, we must be spiritually prepared for the work of the gospel. So the great news is, spending time with God is part of your job! If you want to spend an hour or more each day in the Word and prayer, you can do it completely guilt-free.<\/p>

We also encourage staff to take a monthly half day with the Lord.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Most of our staff work on the field, directly with students. This is where many new staff spend the bulk of their ministry time, working to win, build, and send teenagers.<\/p>

You will have Cru club meetings at lunchtime and\/or before or after school. You will spend some of those same times on campus (where allowed) sharing your faith, asking God to bring you to students who are open to the gospel.<\/p>

When you bring your students with you to do evangelism, you can do win\/build\/send all at the same time. You are building them in their faith and knowledge of how to share, and you are sending them when they are the ones who invite a group to do “Soularium” or when they share their testimony or teach at a weekly club meeting.<\/p>

You may also lead one or more Bible study groups and individual or small-group discipleship times. These can be after school or in the evenings.<\/p>

Not all the time you spend with students will be in formal events. Maximize your time by bringing them with you wherever you go. Take them along to the hardware store. Go to their football practices and attend their talent shows. Remember the principle that we do “life-on-life” ministry.<\/p>

Also counted as work is the time you spend . . .<\/p>