Started by a college student at Kansas State University in 2001, the CampusBranch.org website has a story behind how it came to be. Shared by the student who started the website, here is the story of how this website started:
The Campus Branch website is something that I made a
decision to start in September of 2001 after months of thinking of ideas,
possibilities and praying. Around December of 2001 I decided to start living
for Christ fully and striving to do his will for my life and not my own will.
It was not an easy decision for me to make, but I knew that his plans for my
life would always be better than the plans I would have made.
During the summer of 2001 I went on a summer project with
Campus Crusade for Christ in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It was one of the
most challenging summers of my life so far and the best summer I have ever had
as well. When I returned I had matured more in my walk with Jesus Christ
especially in evangelism, wisdom and discernment and knew that I wanted to do
all that I could to serve him.
Later towards the end of August I made the decision to
make an even deeper commitment to Jesus Christ in following the example of
surrendering my life over to Jesus Christ deciding to serve as a slave of
Christ, as the founder of Campus Crusade for Christ Bill Bright did over fifty
years ago. I at first did not like the term “slave” at all. I was first
presented with this idea at a leadership conference with Crusade during the
summer project; a paper was handed out and we could sign it there to keep if we wanted to
become a slave to Christ. Others signed it there, but I knew that I was not
ready to make that decision there without having seriously thought about it.
So for weeks it sat in a folder, I later ran across it and was ready to make
that commitment.
It was about that time I knew I wanted to do something to
use the talents that God had given me to serve him now, and so the idea of
working to build some kind of resource on the Internet to help Christians I
started considering. So I turned to the word and started reading for some
guidance, then after reading John 15, of which I studied this summer on
project, I became interested in what I had read. John 15 tells of how Christ
is the true vine, that those branches in him that bear no fruit God takes away
and those who do bear fruit, God prunes so that they may bear more fruit. The
focus of the website that developed from that is:
To encourage and equip students to grow in their
personal walk with Christ, that they may live fruitful lives for Christ, and
in time see their campus come to know Christ as God will prune that student
to bear even more fruit.
That is how this site came to be and why it was
started. I trust that God will use the site and the many believers that he
will lead to help build it.
In
Christ,
Matt
Campus Branch Staff
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