Seven Things I Love About Chi Alpha Nationally

I was think­ing in the show­er about how won­der­ful Chi Alpha is.

Here are sev­en spe­cif­ic things I love about our move­ment:

1. We have a great cul­ture in Chi Alpha. Almost all the big buzz­words in lead­er­ship (men­tor­ing, learn­ing orga­ni­za­tion, authen­tic­i­ty, being mis­sion­al, etc) have been core parts of our DNA for decades.
2. Most of the best peo­ple I know are Chi Alpha lead­ers. Read that again if it’s con­fus­ing.
3. Chi Alpha offers great train­ing. Whether it’s in the area of lead­ing a small group or sup­port-rais­ing, the train­ing is top-notch and use­ful.
4. Chi Alpha con­sis­tent­ly offers life-trans­form­ing region­al and nation­al con­fer­ences (with some of the best wor­ship to be found any­where, I might add).
5. Chi Alpha is part of the Assem­blies of God, and the Assem­blies of God rocks in ways I can­not even begin to describe here. Some­day I’ll have to make anoth­er list of sev­en things about them.
6. Chi Alpha is very entre­peneur­ial. I have almost com­plete auton­o­my with­in my sphere of respon­si­bil­i­ty (the cam­pus I am assigned to). I can pret­ty much do what­ev­er I want, and yet I know that if I need help or coach­ing it’s just a phone call away.
7. Chi Alpha is very mis­sion­al, both in what we do on cam­pus and in what we seek to do beyond it. We teach our stu­dents to be effec­tive for Christ in a non-Chris­t­ian envi­rone­ment and we do it so well that they have become the recruits of choice for some of our sharpest mis­sion­ar­ies around the globe. Which is why Assem­blies of God World Mis­sions sank over a mil­lion dol­lars into The World Mis­sions Sum­mit ear­li­er this year–and which is why they got over 700 recruits in return.