At a May 5th Dallas-area banquet CLM will celebrate its first
quarter century with new Campus Crusade president Steve Douglass as
the featured speaker. See: www.leaderu.S."
"If I could start Campus Crusade for Christ over again ," Campus
Crusade co-founder Bill Bright often said, "I would begin with
reaching professors.
Rev. Leith Anderson, senior pastor of Wooddale Church near Minneapolis and
former president of the National Association of Evangelicals, said, "When a
major challenge like this is recognized, leaders must lead.

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CLM National Field Director David Wiley, "Having been a part of CLM
virtually from the beginning, I can say that we are in a position of
multiplied impact as a result of the foundation laid since our
creation 25 years ago."
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CLM Celebrates 25 Years of ''Reaching Professors Who Change the World''

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Georgia says, "The whole idea of CLM, which is to make professors
better disciples of Jesus Christ in their universities , in their
professions and in their research, is extremely important and
essential.

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Since its launch
in 1980, CLM has grown to encompass a network of 8,000 professors at
over 1,100 universities world -wide who seek to integrate their faith
into their teaching, research and service as a model to colleagues and
students. In addition, "63 percent of evangelicals
believe that while global warming may be a long-term issue, the problem is
being caused today, so we must start addressing it immediately ," Sellers said.

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Hotel in Addison. The Evangelical Climate Initiative Seeks National Legislation to Reduce
Emissions

New Poll Results Show Broad Evangelical Support For Effort

WASHINGTON, A group of more than 85 influential
evangelical leaders released a statement today expressing a biblically driven
commitment to curb global warming and called on the government to enact
national legislation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions that are contributing
to global climate change.
Other signatories include denominational leaders Jack Hayford (Foursquare
Gospel), Peter Borgdorff (Christian Reformed Church), and Berten Waggoner
(Vineyard), as well as David Neff, executive editor of Christianity Today, and
Duane Litfin, president of Wheaton College.

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The challenge for higher
education is to understand the priority young people place on these
issues and explore how well they are supporting their students'
quest . I can see that there is pressure to remove that from many
campuses."
CLM's 85 U. Peter Borgdorff , head of the Christian Reformed Church, said the
statement was notable because of its Christian foundation and motivation, and
the specificity of its call for personal and government action on the issue of
climate change.

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Yet more than half of these students report that
their professors never promote discussion of these spiritual matters."
For 25 years, Christian Leadership Ministries, the faculty
ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ International, has been
equipping Christian professors across the U. Ron
Sellers, president of Ellison Research, said that 70 percent of the
evangelical respondents said they believed global warming would pose a serious
threat to future generations."

Advertising Campaign
The Evangelical Climate Initiative also announced an advertising campaign
that will present the themes of the climate statement through a series of
national television , radio, and print ads, beginning with a full-page ad in
The New York Times February 9.ChristiansAndClimate .

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The document outlining theological and policy imperatives, issued by the
Evangelical Climate Initiative, was signed by leaders of evangelical Christian
denominations, mega-church pastors, Christian college presidents, and CEOs of
major evangelical world relief organizations.
government to establish limits on emissions.

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Ed Harris states that the CLM-sponsored faculty
fellowship at Oklahoma State U.

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CLM helped pioneer free online publishing at the advent of the
World Wide Web, now running 13 Web sites.

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S. field staff members work with Christian professors
at secular universities, aiding them in gaining tenure and equipping
them to appropriately reach out to spiritually-seeking students and
colleagues. in the next five years.

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The signers include Rick Warren, author of the runaway best seller, The
Purpose Driven Life, and the leaders of the two largest charitable
organizations in the country: Rich Stearns, president of World Vision, and
Commissioner Todd Bassett, national commander of The Salvation Army. "The
consequences of global warming," the statement reads, "will hit the poor the
hardest, in part because those areas likely to be significantly affected first
are the poorest regions of the world.

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CLM will also highlight its future plans at the banquet, including
its goal of establishing active groups of Christian professors at the
151 top research universities in the U.

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Concern for Impacts on People, Especially the Poor
The statement highlights a strong concern for the impact global warming
will have on people, especially poor nations and individuals."
Jo Anne Lyon, executive director of World Hope International, said: "The
evangelical community has worked in poor countries for many years, spending
billions of dollars to help people meet their basic needs and to share the
Good News about Jesus Christ. In the future, global warming puts at risk our
longstanding efforts to help the poor.

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and around the world to
provide the spiritual guidance their students expect."

Poll Results Indicate Growing Evangelical Concern
The group also announced that a new poll by Ellison Research showed strong
concern among evangelicals for responsible care of the environment."
The text reads in part: "With the same love of God and neighbor that compels
us to preach salvation through Jesus Christ, protect unborn life, preserve the
family and the sanctity of marriage, defend religious freedom and human
dignity , and take the whole Gospel to a hurting world, we the undersigned
evangelical leaders resolve to come together with others of like mind to pray
and to work to stop global warming.

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Christianity is one of the various options in the marketplace of
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The statement, Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action, establishes
that Christian moral convictions demand a response to the climate change
problem, and calls on governments, business, churches and individuals to play
a role. "As signatories , we are committing
ourselves to use our influence as evangelical leaders to focus attention and
prompt action of Christian believers to work to limit the emissions that are
contributing to disastrous climate change.

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More and more cases of viewpoint discrimination and religious and
political bias at American universities further an environment that
many scholars and students feel discourages their faith and its
expression. Russell Carlson, Professor of Biochemistry at U.
Citing higher sea levels, more frequent heat waves and droughts, increased
tropical diseases, and reduction in agricultural output as likely results of
"even small rises in global temperature," the statement declares: "This is
God's world, and any damage that we do to God's world is an offense against
God himself.S. "The most important step that
can be taken at the federal level," the statement reads , "is to pass and
implement national legislation requiring sufficient economy-wide reductions in
carbon dioxide emissions through cost effective, market-based mechanisms such
as a cap-and-trade program .

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Evangelical Leaders Call Global Warming a Moral and Spiritual Crisis

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"This is a positive step based on the hope that God will help Americans
lead on this issue," Borgdorff said."
The Evangelical Climate Initiative is a group of more than 85 evangelical
leaders who -- as a result of their commitment to Jesus Christ and concern for
His creation -- have signed the statement entitled Climate Change: An
Evangelical Call to Action; it represents their efforts (signatories sign as
individuals , and not as spokespersons for their respective organizations) to
encourage action by evangelical Christians and all Americans to make life
changes necessary to help solve the global warming crisis , and to advance
legislation that will limit emissions, while respecting economic and business
concerns .

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With God's help
we can make a difference.

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DALLAS ----Three out of four college
students say they are "searching for meaning and purpose in life"
according to a study released this month by UCLA's Higher Education
Research Institute.

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Alexander Astin,
college students "are clearly very interested in (the) larger
questions in life, and many of them hope that the college experience
will support them in their spiritual quest. The banquet invitation committee includes oilman
Bunker Hunt, Dallas Mavericks founder and former GM Norm Sonju, auto
dealer Ray Huffines and former Dallas City Councilman Dr.

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Calling on Leadership from Government and Business
For the first time, a major evangelical group is calling on the U.

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The May 5th banquet begins at 6:45 p.
The print ad has a partial list of the signatories and is headlined: "Our
commitment to Jesus Christ compels us to solve the global warming crisis.

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