camp. On the flip side, everyone enjoyed online gaming and had a lot of fun. Both sessions of gaming, which were meant to run for an hour from 4 pm, continued until 6:30 pm. It was also great to see some of the previous CRU® Tech campers join and teach the new campers how to play some of the games. Q. How have you seen God at work during the pandemic? I thank God for the CRU Tech leaders and the community we have. The way we love and care for each other and checked up on each other in lockdown was amazing.
Continued growth in the west While this past year has had its challenges, we give great thanks to God for His powerful work through the CRU® West ministry in WA. Two years ago, Josie joined the first-ever CRU Quest camp as a Year 6 student with 36 other campers. Last year, on her third camp, we rejoiced in God’s faithfulness, for camper numbers had more than doubled to 80! While the CRU Quest site location may have changed each year, some things have not. Josie joyfully explained that “the talks and discussion groups were great, and the camp has been a really encouraging Page Ten
Q. How does having hope in the Lord (Isaiah 40:31) resonate with you as a CRU Camp leader? At the end of a camp, leaders often mention that camp is a small glimpse of heaven. CRU Tech being cancelled in winter meant that the small glimpse of heaven I was so much looking forward to didn’t happen, and the lockdown that followed added to a difficult six months. Lockdown was a period of slowing down and resting in the Lord. Coming out of lockdown, I feel more connected to God and believe that He is at work in my life. I am energised and excited about how God will use me through CRU Tech over the next few years!
way to meet other Christians.” Josie was able to bring two friends from her school to find out about Jesus. Back in 2019, when CRU Quest first started, it was one of three CRU Camps in Western Australia with a total of 123 campers. Since then, two additional CRU Camps have been added, allowing 276 campers to hear the good news of Jesus. We are also thankful to God that seven new CRU Groups have been started over the past year in Perth, Geraldton and Albany. We hope that there’ll be a CRU Group in Josie’s school soon so that her friends from Quest can continue finding out more about Jesus and how to live for Him. Join us in praising God for what He has accomplished, for Josie and her two friends, and pray that many others like them will hear the gospel and be transformed by Jesus.
