Category: Chi Alpha

You know those white ele­phant gift exchanges–the ones where you bring a gag gift and it goes into a pool and every­one picks out a lame gift at ran­dom and then opens it in front of every­one?

Well, they just did that at UNC Chi Alpha, and they caught the fun­ni­est gag gift I’ve ever seen on tape. See what Nina got for Christ­mas! (a 40 sec­ond movie in Win­dows Media Play­er for­mat)

It’s not obvi­ous on the video, but the gift is indeed a live rat.

My com­men­da­tions to Brad Novosad for his most excel­lent dis­ci­ple­ship of these stu­dents in the ways of mer­ri­ment.

Chi Alpha at Wichi­ta State Uni­ver­si­ty got some press recent­ly:

Kayleen Hall­berg, 22, said her spir­i­tu­al life got back on track after she joined the rough­ly 60-mem­ber Chi Alpha Chris­t­ian Fel­low­ship.

Last week, she staffed a booth for the Chris­t­ian group that drew her inter­est three years ago after “back­slid­ing” from her Chris­t­ian upbring­ing.

“I was the typ­i­cal col­lege stu­dent: par­ty­ing, once I got away from home,” said Hall­berg, a fifth-year senior study­ing man­age­ment and finance.

Chi Alpha “gave me focus and direc­tion. There’s a lot of focus on char­ac­ter and integri­ty.”

(source: Wichi­ta Eagle, 8/28/2004)

Way to go, Chi Alphans!

This news from Uni­ver­si­ty of Arkansas Chi Alpha leader Ron­nie Hoover. They’re build­ing a min­istry cen­ter, and are hav­ing great suc­cess at rais­ing the funds:

Hey every­one,

Many of you know that I gave away $1600 to our stu­dents after read­ing to them the para­ble of the tal­ents. I gave away 50s, 20s, and 10s. The stu­dents were to go out and mul­ti­ply their tal­ents just like in the para­ble. Well, they brought back just over $10,000 last Wednes­day night. PTL!

They did so many so many cool things like invest­ing in clay and mak­ing pot­tery, invest­ing in bike parts and putting togeth­er a Mt. bike, host­ing a bake sale, sell­ing a CD of P&W songs, Sell­ing cook­ie dough, suck­ers, and so much more.

We also host­ed a Fund Rais­ing Ban­quet on Sat. night and our goal was 50K. We brought in $51,900.00 in one night. Praise the Lord. All of this mon­ey of course goes to build the new house. Please just take a moment and thank God with us.

I just had to tell,

Ron­nie Hoover

How cool is that?

I just read an arti­cle about Chi Alpha in Japan. Inter­est­ing stuff.

Check out the rad­i­cal­ly revamped ChiAlpha.com!

A fel­low Chi Alpha group in Birm­ing­ham made the local news for an improb­a­ble rea­son. The title of the arti­cle, and I kid you not, is Chi Alpha Women Reject Makeover Spa for Camp­ing Trip.

Evi­dent­ly it was a slow news day in Alaba­ma…

Inci­den­tal­ly, the arti­cle is real­ly quite amus­ing. You should read it.

I just heard this won­der­ful news from LSU Chi Alpha:

“One of the best things God has done for me,” said Zechari­ah Brew­er, a sopho­more at Louisiana State Uni­ver­si­ty, Baton Rouge, “is heal me of asth­ma.”

When Brew­er was in the 10th grade, he began using an inhaler because of occa­sion­al breath­ing prob­lems. With­in a year, he was put on dai­ly med­ica­tions. Over the next few years, the dosages were increased.

By the time the busi­ness admin­is­tra­tion major, who accept­ed Christ when he was 15 years old, entered col­lege he was resigned to the fact that he was going to have to cope with asth­ma for the rest of his life. But, ear­ly in the fall semes­ter he decid­ed to try some­thing he had nev­er con­sid­ered before.

“I went to a Chi Alpha prayer meet­ing after work and asked Cam­pus Mis­sion­ary Nick Call­away to pray for my heal­ing,” said Brew­er. “He gath­ered a few oth­er believ­ers, and they laid hands on me and began to pray.”

The next morn­ing, Brew­er went out for a run and to his amaze­ment his lungs were healed. From that point on, he has been walk­ing around breath­ing more freely than he has in years. All it took was a sim­ple prayer of faith.

“I told God, ‘I know You’ve healed many peo­ple, and I want to believe that You’ll heal me,’ ” Brew­er said. “That was when my prayer was answered.” (source)