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 Barr has engaged in cross-cultural ministry with Cru for over 55 years. Almost 15 of those years were spent in China. He has the training and experience needed for understanding the unique challenges facing this strategic group of people. His 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 Alan lives with his wife Marsha in the Seattle area where he 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 continues 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.)