KCCC - Get er Done

I first heard of KCCC about 4 years ago . . . and since then I have become very familiar with what they are doing. I spent part of this past week at Big Bear Lake in CA as part of their National Staff(s) confernce. What a great group of young leaders. Bold in their faith, tenacious in their prayers and undaunted by the difficulties of ministry in any context.

KCCC stands for Korea Campus Crusade for Chirst, and a number of years ago they set foot in the US to begin ministry with a Korean flare. Their main target has traditionally been first and second generation Korean students on campuses in Southern California and New York. They are very effective at what they do and there is much we could learn from them. Currently I believe they are on about 40 campuses with around 50 staff in California, New York, New Jersey, Chicago and Toronto.

Here are a few highlights of how I see the Lord using them.

• Tenacious in Prayer - many of their meetings seem very similar to the average white guy meeting until they pray. I spoke at a conference once and after I spoke, we prayed through my talk for a greater amount of time than I actually spent giving the talk. They pray loud, with passion and with great expectancy.
  
• Committed to evangelism - These guys are old school and simply share their faith. In Toronto 2-3 staff members (and the movement they lead) saw 200 decisions last semester.
• Selective in Discipleship - they have many systems and constructs in place to insure the maturing of disciples (or at least that their disciples would know and understand the work of the ministry). As a result, the are not huge in many locations, but they are radical. Their California vision conference draws about 1200 students, which is pretty much every student that is involved on campus. They will also see half of these students go on an intnernational missions trip this summer.

The lesson for me is pretty simple. Good leadership, freed up, in any context, will surface and maintain the desired vision. KCCC has shown us that our systems, structures, plans and policies are not necessary to succeed. They may be necessary for us, but they are not necessary for everyone. Good leaders will put things in place that will help them get to their slice of the vision. We (the white guys) could never (in a million years) create what KCCC did right under our nose (with many in the greater organization getting bent out of shape).

What lesson can we learn from KCCC that will help us move ahead in other ethnic contexts?

Reality check: Of course they have their problems and short comings (and so do we). Their leaders are working hard to figure these things out. But it is hard to argue with their success.

You can send a "keep up the good work" email to Dong Whan Kim (CA) or Nam Ju Chun (NY). These gentlemen (and their wives) are living the grand adventure of being missionaries in our own backyard.