The Hertzler family
We work with the EveryStudent.com team (a part of Campus Crusade for Christ) in Orlando, Florida.
Right now Jerry helps produce translations of EveryStudent.com, a site about who God is and what it might be like to know Him.
We moved to Orlando in June 2006 after three years in Budapest, Hungary.
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Cathy teaches at our kids’ school, Trace Academy.
Our work helps reach people with the message of Jesus Christ.
Our History
Jerry and Cathy near Hungary - 1987
Jerry graduated from the University of Missouri - Rolla where he met some students who wanted to use Campus Crusade’s strategies to tell other students about Jesus Christ. Having put his faith in Jesus at an earlier age, this was such a unique and fulfilling challenge he decided to be involved in this sort of thing, one way or another, for the rest of his life. During the summer of 1986 God showed Jerry how he could live this dream, by joining the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ. That summer he also fell in love with Cathy and discovered she had the same dream. After getting married to Cathy and working a year at McDonnell Douglas, they both fulfilled their dream by joining the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ.
Cathy graduated from Southwest Missouri State University where she also met some other students who were leading a Campus Crusade for Christ group on their campus. Having recently put her faith in Christ, this was an opportunity to grow in her faith. The spiritual growth she experienced and the fun and friends she made convinced her this was what she wanted to do with her life as well. During the summer of 1986 she became friends with Jerry and later married him and the two of them joined the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ in 1989.
In 1987 Jerry and Cathy spent the summer in Hungary telling students about Jesus Christ. Cathy was in Budapest on a team with other Campus Crusade for Christ students, and Jerry was on a team in a town on Lake Balaton called Balatonfüred. That summer experience placed a warm spot in our hearts for Hungary.
