Though the Campus Crusade

For Christ was begun in the 1950s as a ministry to

college students, it has grown to 40 different ministries

under the Campus umbrella.

One of those, New Life

Resources, is headquartered in Peachtree City and sends

out publications and videos all over the world. Currently

housed in 10,000 square feet on TDK Boulevard, next May

it will move around the corner to Ga. Highway 74, into a

20,000-sq. ft. space.

Director of this particular

ministry is Pat Pearce. He has been with Campus Crusade

for 22 years and came to Peachtree City to establish New

Life Resources in 1989.

Campus Crusade was founded

president. Its international headquarters is in Orlando

and it is the largest missions organization that is not a

part of a specific denomination.

The local ministry serves

as resource center for pastors and laymen alike who are

active in teaching Sunday School, leading Bible studies,

discipling others or equipping members to be more

effective messengers of the gospel. According to Pearce,

each publication or video available has been tested and

is known to be effective.

Said Pearce, "If there

is anything within Campus Crusade For Christ that will

make it easier for you to accomplish the calling from God

to do his work, we would like to make it available. We

are always open to recommendations for ways that we can

serve you better."

New Resources' catalog

offers pamphlets/books on such subjects as evangelism

training, outreach strategies, follow-up and

discipleship, family life, summer projects and youth and

children, to name only a few of its subjects.

This ministry also is about

to expand its call center, offering additional help to

pastors and churches who want to begin a particular

program but need help and suggestions as to how to do it

best. "We ask what they wish to accomplish and

suggest ways in which we can help them do that,"

said Pearce.

Born in Memphis and reared

in Ozark, Ala., Pearce is a graduate of the University of

Alabama in 1969, served as an officer in the United

States Marine Corps in Vietnam, then returned to work for

an NBC affiliate in Birmingham. At the age of 30, he was

listening to a speaker who told about a campaign in

Atlanta based on "I found it, you can find it too

- a New Life in Jesus Christ." Though he had

been reared in a church, he realized that Campus Crusade

for Christ offered just the line of work he would be the

happiest doing, serving others and helping to lead them

to serve through The Great Commission, as found in

Matthew 28, verses 18 - 20.

Founder Bright has always

adopted this as his belief and ends all correspondence

with "yours for fulfilling the Great Commission in

this generation." It is the desire of Campus Crusade

to have reached everyone in the world by the end of the

year 2000. It currently has staff members in areas

serving 99.7 percent of the world's population.

Pearce is married to Linda

and they are the parents of three children: Mike, 23, a

graduate of FULLSAIL film and production school in

Florida; Heather, who is a junior at the University of

Alabama majoring in public relations, and Ashley, who is

a second grader at Huddleston Elementary School.

"Campus Crusade for

Christ is not a church," he said. "We would be

servants to the servants."

Pastors or individuals who

would like assistance in ministering to a neighborhood or

a whole church can contact New Life Resources at

770-631-9940. Its web site address is www.campuscrusade.org .