Cru Reviews

Honestly, working for CRU was kind of like working for a cult. There’s a bunch of smiling, happy, well dressed people from the outside. But, once you scratch the surface or be a little different, you start to see the organization’s true nature. 1.) The staff are generally unprofessional. Most staff have been recruited straight from college and many have never had professional employment elsewhere. There is a naive attitude towards reaching objectives and organization. 2.) Critical thinking and strategic planning is generally looked down upon. By default, Christian ministries tend to attract people that value feelings more than objective analysis. While this value system works for connecting with people, it is not effective when engaging in strategic planning or evaluating tactics. I found myself fairly judged and treated wrong whenever I engaged in honest critical analysis of our methods. 3.) If you’re life isn’t already filled with other CRU staffers, it soon will be. This means that your social, spiritual, familial, social, etc spheres will be absorbed into the CRU bubble. This is perhaps the biggest danger. Once in this bubble, you’re ability to think independently is held hostage to the various relational pressures you’ll have from the CRU bubble. It’s like living in Jonestown. Everyone drinks the same kool aid all the time. If you don’t drink the kool aid, you’re thought of as “disobedient” or “sinful” or “immature.” Criticize Bill Bright or the 4 Spiritual Laws and you’re definitely a goner.

LMAO where do I even start. I can't even believe I was part of this cultish organization for so long but alas, I was a traumatized young woman needing to belong somewhere that felt like "family" wink*wink* First off: what they are about is...v problematic (I mean what are we expecting here right? its an evangelical christian org that is built upon proselatizing with their pseudo-early protestant beliefs of manifest destiny eek) -This org is definitely very homophobic. -They are 100% low-key high-key racist. Organizationally: (What the values are built on, the culture will follow in its own weird evolutionary way. In this case, very white, very middle class, middle America college campus culture stuff.) -They have favorites in every sector of any grouping. -Support raising methods are optimized for middle class white church goers. So barrier of entry: blessing in disguise for poor poc who get discouraged from it: yes, run! this is not the place for you to thrive in any shape or form) but if you do, prepare to suffer from poverty until you finally scrape money from not spending much thru couch/house surfing. -Leadership methods are super white, corporate wannabes, wagging fingers with gaslighting if you don't prescribe to their way of life and invoking "professionalism" whenever beneficial to leadership. -Grace only given to the favorites. -You can't be fired unless you "sin" or you're "pushed out". I could go on. But yah, run. Why do we even have christian non-profits still?