How God is moving in our lives as we serve with Cru

Staying Connected: We truly value the connection we have with our partners and want to share what God is doing in our lives and ministry.

To supplement our physical letters and texts (which are heavily focused on ministry and student stories), we send a monthly email that will focus on the stories that show how God is moving in our lives while serving with Cru. 

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To ensure these updates reach you, please add gene@muckleroybasecamp.org to your contacts.

The Home Pasture

By day, our mission is walking alongside professors and grad students across South Texas with Faculty Commons, the professor and grad student network of Cru. We explore faith, family, leadership, academic life, and how all those things fit together. It is a very rewarding calling that requires deep relational and strategic focus.

To remain connected to his agricultural roots, Gene spends many early mornings, evenings, and weekends in the dirt and grass – with his kids and dogs – raising a small herd of beef cattle.

Cattle don’t care about an email inbox or what opportunities might help a professor take that step of faith they’ve been wanting to take. If the trough is broken, it has to be fixed… whether the Spurs are playing in the finals or it’s 107 in the shade. Steers don’t get ready to harvest when we want them to, even if the freezer is running low and the grocery budget is shrinking. They work on their time. And caring for them forces one to practice grit, patience, and intentional stewardship – lessons that don’t show up so clearly on fast-paced college campuses.

Gene has begun capturing these lessons to share in The Home Pasture, a completely free, bi-weekly collection of stories written in the spirit of the old outdoor essayists. It’s like a front porch where we can slow down, take a breath, and look at things that endure: faith, family, land, and honest work.

If honest storytelling, sincere reflections, and the rugged beauty of South Texas appeals to you, he’d love to have you pull up a chair and read along.