Onboarding Events
New Staff Orientation
New Staff Orientation (NSO) is Cru’s primary onboarding experience for new staff members. It serves as a 9-10 day orientation designed to prepare new missionaries and ministry staff for their assignments through training, community, and support development.
What to Expect
New Staff Orientation Objectives
Build Community
Cru protects donor confidentiality, honoring gift designations, and managing resources ethically through clear safeguards and audits.
Refresh and affirm His call
You will have opportunities to share your story and hear others. As you reflect on these stories, you will leave with a great sense of God’s calling in your life.
Expand your vision and understanding of Cru
Hearing from leadership, learning about different ministries, and seeing how God is at work will broaden your view of Cru.
Orient you to life and work as a missionary with Cru
You will leave NSO prepared for all that is required of you as you transition to full time MPD.
NSO Calendar
General Schedule
Anyone who desires to become a full-time staff member with Cru is expected and required to attend New Staff Orientation in its entirety and to fully participate in the entire program/curriculum.
If you are married and both husband and wife are joining staff with Cru, it is important and strategic for both to attend and participate in all the sessions.
Please note that the above 9-day schedule (10 days if you are joining with the Campus Ministry) is the general schedule for all orientations regardless of when you join. NSO will begin on a Friday and will end with a commissioning ceremony on the following Saturday evening.
