During my first experience with Jazzercise, an aerobics and strength-training class, my brain failed to tell my feet of their illustrious potential. I was a sad, sad novice.

After a few classes, I began breaking a sweat—evidence that I was catching on. Within a few months, I made the big move from the back (where timid, new students stand) to the front of the class. I began helping new students acclimate. Within a year I became an instructor. Recently, a friend challenged me to teach so as to encourage students to consider certification as instructors.

Each experience built upon the groundwork before, and I found myself moving from student to vision-caster.

In the same way, the Campus Crusade for Christ staff members and students on the following pages build by laying their bricks upon those laid by others who have come before them. Each stage serves a purpose as part of a Campus Ministry strategy called the Worldwide Student Network, which helps people around the world hear the good news of Christ. The WSN strategy consists of five stages:

»Stage 1 Summer projects—four-to-eight-week mission trips to university campuses in other parts of the world, like Japan (see "No Time to Waste"). It's an opportunity for students to learn ministry skills while discovering God's heart for the world.

»Stage 2 STINT—one-year assignments on a university campus, such as in Russia. As foreign students or foreign-language teachers, STINTers develop relationships with students and tell them about the gospel.

»Stage 3 International campus staff members—people committed to living overseas for three to five years. Planting roots in a country, they believe God will use them to develop ministry leaders from that country, as in Venezuela.

»Stage 4 National staff members—people joining the staff of Campus Crusade in their own country, like in Chile. Success is not found in sending a long line of Americans to help reach a country for Christ, but in developing culturally indigenous missionaries who take the initiative within that home country.

»Stage 5 Sending nations—countries that begin their own sending stages, like Albania. The plan comes full circle when a country begins sending its own students and staff members to another country.

"When we see nations partnering with nations to proclaim the gospel," says Keith Bubalo, WSN director, "we aren't simply witnessing an efficient strategy, but a visible expression of God's Spirit at work among all nations."