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Cru is a campus ministry that is about two things: Jesus and Community. We think that Jesus is the greatest person to ever live and that our relationship with him is the most fulfilling thing on earth. We believe this so much that we want everyone at VT to have the opportunity to know him too. In fact, Jesus is really the whole reason we exist and he is the focus of our mission: Cru is a community where the gospel captures hearts, transforms lives and launches men and women into a lifelong adventure with Jesus.
The second thing we are about is community. Nobody likes to be alone and so we make it a priority to have an incredible community. While probably no one in Cru knows everyone else in Cru, there are so many interconnected groups of close-knit friends that there’s a place for everyone to get involved. But we don’t stop there. We’re not content to just all be a community together. We want our community to grow, which is where our love for Jesus and our natural desire for community come together.
There are so many ways to connect to our community: small group bible studies (we call them community groups), weekly large group meetings, conferences & retreats, etc. Keep checking our social media and website for more info. If you’re interested in getting plugged in you can fill out a connect card and we’ll reach out to you personally. If you have any other questions please don’t hesitate to contact us!
Meet Our Staff
We have an incredible staff family here with Cru at Virginia Tech. These men and women serve to ensure that every Hokie has an opportunity to hear and respond to the gospel. You can read a little about them here, but they would love to meet you in person at some of our Cru events on campus.
Rebecca Lansford
Team leader
Rebecca graduated from Virginia Tech in 2013 with a degree in Political Science. She has been serving with Cru since then and stepped into the campus director role in 2018. She loves being a Blacksburg townie and working with the amazing students at Virginia Tech, to reach the campus with the Gospel. Rebecca enjoys going on adventures, all things Johnny Depp, a good cup of coffee, and teaching spin classes.
Trey Moore
Team leader
Trey graduated from Virginia Tech in 2013 with his degree in engineering science and mechanics. While he grew up elsewhere in southwest Virginia, he has now found his true home in Blacksburg, Virginia and loves helping students find deep Christian community and grow in their love for Jesus. Trey’s wife Rebecca is not on staff with Cru, but works as a veterinarian in Roanoke, Virginia. Trey and Rebecca met during undergrad at VT, were married in 2015, and now live in Riner with their daughters Gracie and Addie.
The Rogers
Senior Staff
Evan and Jennifer serve with Cru’s Greek Ministry, reaching sororities and fraternities with the gospel. Jennifer served with Cru in Richmond for a few years after graduating from VCU in 2021. Evan graduated from Liberty University in 2022 and then made the move to Blacksburg to begin serving with Greeks. A few years in, they met, were married shortly after that, and have been serving together on our team since Fall 2024! Evan and Jennifer are most passionate about evangelism and sharing with those not yet reached with the gospel. They both love being active (hiking, weight lifting, and all of the sports) and Evan loves all things Boston (go Celtics)!
The Thoresens
Senior staff
Brady and Elisabeth graduated from Virginia Tech in 2022. Brady graduated with a degree in Aerospace Engineering, and Elisabeth graduated with an English Literature degree. They got married soon after graduation and were eager to join Virginia Tech Cru Staff as soon as possible. In their free time they enjoy reading, cooking/eating Mexican dishes, and listening to records.
The Imbiris
Staff
Originally from Papua, Indonesia, Gilbert came to study as an international student at a small university in Missouri. While studying, Amber and Gilbert met at a campus ministry that changed their lives for the gospel. They got married in 2014 and have four wonderful, life-giving children. After spending six years in North Carolina at seminary and helping plant a church, they have transitioned to Cru to work with the international students. They are passionate about living life together on mission with the students, and their kids love getting to interact with students from all over the world. As a family, they love all things Kansas City, being adventurous in the mountains, and anything with quality time!
The Montgomerys
Senior staff
Mike and Linda Montgomery were high school sweethearts who married in 1970 and spent their next 23 years moving around the world as an Air Force family. In 2005, they joined Cru Military staff, applying their military experience and love for God’s word to minister to active duty families. Mike and Linda transitioned to Cru Valor at Virginia Tech in 2017, focusing on discipling ROTC cadets and developing outreach to military veterans returning to campuses. They are the parents of two married children and, if asked, are sure to tell you about their 10 grandchildren.
Utah Kershner
Senior Staff
Utah graduated from Virginia Tech in May 2022 with a degree in Human Development. He has been on the staff team at Virginia Tech since. Having just bought his first house, he is officially a Blacksburg townie. His favorite things are reading, watching Hokie sports, traveling, spending time with friends, asking good questions, and his newest favorite activity, pickleball. He loves buying people coffee and talking about life, theology, and your walk with Jesus. He is currently pursuing a seminary degree in Ministry Leadership from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Nevada Kershner
Senior staff
Nevada graduated in May of 2022 from Virginia Tech with a B.S. in Human Development and Family Science. He interned with Cru at VT for 3 years and joined as full-time staff in summer 2025! He has been on multiple summer missions with Cru as a student, as staff, and as a Team Leader. His favorite thing he has done with Cru was leading the Summer Mission to Brazil in 2026! He loves to travel, spend time with his friends, drink coffee, play pickleball, watch any and all VT sports, beat his disciples at everything he plays with them, and just do adventurous things. His favorite quote is "Just because you're trash doesn't mean you can't succeed. It's called a garbage CAN, not a garbage cannot."
Jonan Wilkin
Senior Part-time Staff
Jonan is a born-and-raised Blacksburgian who is passionate about nothing more than the advance of the gospel among his native people, Hokie Nation. Jonan grew up in campus ministry at Virginia Tech under his parents. After attending the local New River Community College for two years studying engineering, he transferred to a North Carolina-based seminary through which he is now studying remotely toward his Masters of Divinity degree. Besides talking to students about Jesus, Jonan enjoys a little pickup ultimate frisbee, a lot of railroad photography, and loves everything rural lifestyle, Southwest Virginia and Hokies!
Meet Our Student Leadership Team
Cru's student leadership team is know as the "Servant Team." They help plan and carry out outreaches and events throughout the year and seek to give all their fellow Hokies an opportunity to hear and respond to the Gospel.
Many of these leaders have teams that directly serve Cru at Virginia Tech and would love your help. If you’re interested in joining one of these teams, click here.
Logan Duff
Servant Team Director
The Servant Team Director oversees and supports all the different teams within Cru, helping them work together toward the same mission. He helps make sure everything runs smoothly, encourages leaders in their roles, and provides vision and direction for how Servant Team can best serve Cru and the campus.
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Emcees
The emcees are the friendly faces up front at Cru’s Thursday night gatherings. They welcome everyone in, share important announcements, and help set the tone for the night. As spokespeople for Cru, they keep things engaging, clear, and connected.
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Cru Team
Cru team is responsible for all that happens on Thursday night. Do you like making value-based decisions about what happens up front, helping ensure a meeting runs smoothly, or helping place flyers on seats when needed? Join the Cru team and you can help make sure Thursday night large group runs smoothly.
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Prayer Team
Are you passionate about prayer, praying for others and the movement, or helping others develop a heart for prayer and communing with God? Join the prayer team to help saturate our movement with prayer and plan and put on prayer related events.
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Community Team
If you enjoy throwing a good party, bringing the community together, or helping build a culture of community, this might be the team for you. If you are gifted in event planning, logistics, rallying a crowd, and helping Cru feel like a home for anyone, join the community team.
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Outreach Team
If you love Jesus and want to help mobilize the movement to share the gospel with others, outreach team might be for you. With outreach team, you can help strategize, plan outreach events, help others learn to share their faith, help serve the campus by sharing the love of Jesus.
Callias Frank
Production Team
Do you like serving behind the scenes? Are you great with a sound board, lights, or slides? Come be a part of production team and help serve the community with your unique production gifting.
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Worship Team
If you can sing or play an instrument and love leading others in musical worship, connect with our worship team leader and he can help you find a way to help serve with our worship team.
Coming Soon
Media Team
Are you gifted in marketing, content creation, graphics, design, photography, videography, etc.? Media team may be your new home. Here, you can help spread the word about Jesus and about Cru through graphic and digital media.
More about Cru
More about Cru
Cru® is a caring community passionate about connecting people to Jesus Christ. You will find us on almost any college campus in the US.
Our vision
The whole campus to the whole world in this generation.
The gospel for every student and faculty.
A movement for every campus.
Multiplying disciples in and for every nation.
Our mission
Turning lost students and faculty into lifelong, Christ-centered, multiplying disciples.
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