Chi Alpha Coast to Coast

I just read a great arti­cle about Chi Alpha nation­wide

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. It’s full of encour­ag­ing tes­ti­monies — includ­ing sto­ries from sev­er­al of my friends.

There’s one sto­ry I remem­ber from my under­grad days:

Min­istry real estate can be scarce on a sec­u­lar cam­pus. When Treuil came to Lafayette, Chi Alpha had no facil­i­ties.

“I inher­it­ed a two-draw­er file cab­i­net,” he says.

Today, the Lafayette chap­ter owns prop­er­ty esti­mat­ed at $1 mil­lion and com­plete­ly paid for.

A local busi­ness­man paid the rent on a house for about 5 years. A non-Chris­t­ian group was poised to buy the house in 1993 when the land­lord offered to sell the prop­er­ty to Chi Alpha. The catch — Treuil had to raise $90,000 in 90 days.

“We didn’t have the mon­ey, but we took a step of faith,” he says.

In 90 days God pro­vid­ed more than $90,000 in cash from indi­vid­ual offer­ings. Pas­tors opened their pul­pits to Treuil. One man donat­ed a Rolex watch. A woman gave Treuil eel-skin purs­es to sell. About 600 peo­ple con­tributed.

It was pret­ty amaz­ing to watch God pro­vide like that — and now the min­istry there owns not only the orig­i­nal prop­er­ty, but almost an entire block across the street from cam­pus that they use for min­istry. God is doing stuff like that through Chi Alpha min­istries on 250 cam­pus­es! Read the full arti­cle.born divx