Alan and Marsha Barr

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An estimated one-million of the new generation of world leaders from outside the US are here in America right now. They have come to our colleges and universities as students and visiting scholars – mid-career post-doctoral researchers. Among them are the most talented and resourceful young men and women from many nations closed to traditional Christian missionary outreach.

This population is of strategic importance to Cru.  An inspiring two-minute video from Bridges International, Cru’s international-student ministry, is linked here: <https://tinyurl.com/The-Nations-Here-Now>. It graphically portrays the importance of international students and visiting scholars in reaching the world for Christ.

Alan and Marsha Barr have engaged in cross-cultural ministry with Cru for over 45 years. Almost 15 of those years were spent in China. The Barrs have the training and experience needed for understanding the unique challenges facing this strategic group of people. Their outreach focuses on winning them to Christ, building them in their relationship with him, and then sending them back to win, build, and send others in their homelands (2 Timothy 2:2).

Currently the Barrs live in Seattle where Alan trains and coaches both internationals and American community volunteers who join him in reaching out to students and scholars at the University of Washington. Marsha has officially retired as a Cru staff member, but she has continued to minister alongside Alan in an important volunteer role.

The Barrs invite you to join their personal team of ministry partners who provide the prayer and financial resources without which their ministry would be impossible.

(At the top of the page, Alan is pictured [fifth from the left] with a group of the enthusiastic international students and visiting scholars with whom we work. In the photo just below that, Marsha hangs out with two scholars from China.)

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