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The 2014 CCC Summer Conference, hosted every year by Campus Crusade for Christ in Korea, was held in Pyeongchang, Gangwondo province in South Korea, where over ten thousand college students, and student leaders gathered from all over Korea and even around the world to worship and praise the Lord. The theme for this year's conference was Reset In Christ.
Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC or Cru) was founded in 1953 by Dr. Bill Bright and his wife Vonette Bright. Dr. Bright was already a successful businessman and owner of a corporation, but after a calling from God to start a Christian ministry targeting college students, founded the first CCC ministry at UCLA witnessing many souls coming to Christ and great revival.
Five years later, Dr. Jun-gon Kim founded KCCC in Gwangju, South Korea, which became Cru's first overseas branch. To this day, KCCC has seen great revival in Korea especially during the 1980s through their summer conference ever since they had their conference in the woods with all the students sleeping in tents. Since 2009, the conference was held at the Phoenix Park Ski Resort, which is also where the 2018 Winter Olympics will be held.
For several years, as well as 10,000 Korean college students, many guests were invited from countries all over the world. This year, all the regions of KCCC USA (LA, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston) and Canada were invited. A total of 300 Korean-American students were present as well as members of the Philippines, Columbia and Russia CCC ministries.
The main purpose of the CCC Summer Conference, also commonly referred to as the "Korea Conference" by KCCC USA, is to envision students to become the next generation of spiritual leaders of the world as well as Korea and the U.S. Staff also challenge students to spread the Gospel in mission fields abroad as well as on their college campuses.
Dr. Sungmin Park, the director of CCC in Korea explained about the theme for this year's conference. He talked about how the youth of the 21st century are often referred to as the "Reset Generation". In a nutshell, students these days would literally "reset" their lives as if they were living in a video game in times of great hardship instead of trying to solve the root of the problem. To this generation Dr. Park asked the question, "Would things be different if you start over?" Without the grace of God, failures would repeat and habitual sins would reoccur.
According to 2 Corinthians 5 : 17, "if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation" (ESV). Dr. Park explained how he hoped the students would literally reset their lives in Christ and recommit their lives to Him as His servants.
