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 by Bill Bright, who still serves as the company 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.

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