We are just beginning to scratch the surface of how many lives have been transformed through the CCO. Students from our ministries have gone on to become leaders in their professions and in their churches. They are raising children, volunteering their time in the community and continuing to give.
Here are just a few of the stories:
Todd Johnson
“Through the CCO community, I deepened and broadened my faith in ways I never would have imagined, and I discerned a call to ministry,” says Todd Johnson. “This call has taken me though a variety of experiences, as I have served as a police and hospital chaplain, campus minister, parish pastor and now seminary professor. Through it all, I have continued to look at my days in the CCO as pivotal.”
Stephanie Wessel
“The main thing the CCO gave me was an intentional community—a framework, a context, people who spoke the same language and had the same beliefs,” says Stephanie Swaney Wessel of her experience as a student at Allegheny College. She remembers hearing for the first time about developing a biblical worldview perspective and thinking, “this is what it really means to be a Christian.”
Scott Mulrooney
“The CCO taught me that I should integrate my faith into my studies, and subsequently into my professional career,” says Scott Mulrooney. “Twenty years later, I am still attempting that integration as a self-styled architect of the poor, humbly ministering to both their physical and spiritual needs in developing nations around the world.”
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