Jessica Chen

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Building capacity for God's work in the whole world

After a year of serving on campus, I served as a conference and event planner in Cru's operations office for North Africa and the Middle East. Through this, God really grew my heart for the spiritual needs of the world and opened my eyes to the valuable role of Operations in our efforts to fill this need. Operations build important infrastructure that equips and cares for field staff so that they have increased capacity to bring the gospel to people. Imagine how much less we’d be able to do without people managing finances, developing trainings, planning times of refreshment, navigating laws of different countries, and so on.

Now God has me serving as Culture and Welfare Leader for the Global Finance team. This team is working to cultivate healthy financial stewardship throughout the global movement by coming alongside national ministries and global leaders. I help care for and connect our 42 Global Finance staff who are serving all around the world from Costa Rica to South Korea through a mix of communications, staff care, leadership development, and event planning. Why this role? Because well-cared for finance staff are better able to increase our ministry’s capacity for growth. And how much more fish could Peter have caught (Luke 5) if he simply had had more capacity (bigger nets and boats)?

God has given me a love for working logistics and for caring for people. He’s also given me opportunities to steward all that in a way that helps bring his kingdom to the whole world! Whether in an office or on campus the goal is the same: giving everyone a chance to know Jesus and helping them grow in their relationship with him so that they can go out and spread the good news. 

 I am so grateful to have you partnering with me in this ministry journey. I look forward to seeing how God will use your support in powerful ways throughout the world! If you have any questions or want to hear more about what God’s doing, feel free to email me at jessica.chen@cru.org. You can also find my newsletters at the link below.


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