Dick Her\u00adman<\/a> and Mark Bri\u00adley) along with the res\u00adi\u00addent nation\u00adal Chi Alpha staff and meets every two months to advise the nation\u00adal direc\u00adtor on strate\u00adgic deci\u00adsions and pol\u00adi\u00adcy issues.<\/p>\nThis is my own quirky and high\u00adly sub\u00adjec\u00adtive take on things.<\/p>\n
Things I Learned:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Scott Mar\u00adtin had to fight to keep the World Mis\u00adsions Sum\u00admit from open\u00ading with a human video (and one involv\u00ading swords, at that). We all owe him a tremen\u00addous debt.<\/li>\n
- The biggest Chi Alpha min\u00adistries are:\n
\n- 600 stu\u00addents at San Diego State Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty with Sue Hegle.<\/li>\n
- 430 at West\u00adern Wash\u00ading\u00adton Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty with Brady Bob\u00adbink.<\/li>\n
- 275 at the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Cen\u00adtral Arkansas with Matt Car\u00adpen\u00adter.<\/li>\n
- ??? at Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Louisiana-Lafayette with Eric Treuil (his num\u00adbers aren\u2019t on file, but I esti\u00admate his min\u00adistry prob\u00ada\u00adbly fits here on the list).<\/li>\n
- 190 at Flori\u00adda State Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty with Mario Solari.<\/li>\n
- 175 at the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Min\u00adneso\u00adta-Duluth with Chuck Haavik.<\/li>\n
- 175 at Ten\u00adnessee Tech Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty with Jonathan Scales.<\/li>\n
- 160 at Mur\u00adray State with Mark Ran\u00addoll.<\/li>\n
- 150 at Mis\u00adsouri State Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty with Noble Bow\u00adman.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Most Chi Alpha groups meet on Thurs\u00adday or Tues\u00adday at 7pm.<\/li>\n
- Only 19% of Chi Alpha stu\u00addents have an Assem\u00adblies of God back\u00adground.<\/li>\n
- Chi Alpha at Yale Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty saw 40 stu\u00addents get saved last year. Big props to Andy Cun\u00adning\u00adham.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Things We Dis\u00adcussed There Which I Am Also Free To Dis\u00adcuss Here:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Fill\u00ading out the annu\u00adal Chi Alpha cen\u00adsus needs to be part of the annu\u00adal affil\u00adi\u00ada\u00adtion process. Not fill\u00ading it out (and not affil\u00adi\u00adat\u00ading) will be grounds for hav\u00ading your pay\u00adcheck with\u00adheld, just as with our month\u00adly finan\u00adcial reports. Also, this needs to be doable online.<\/li>\n
- We spent a lot of time talk\u00ading about Chi Alpha\u2019s deci\u00adsion-mak\u00ading process and orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion\u00adal struc\u00adture. There\u2019s a lot of that I can\u2019t com\u00adment on yet because our Nation\u00adal Direc\u00adtor is going to be talk\u00ading to many peo\u00adple one on one to explain things to them. Here are things I think I can safe\u00adly say:\n
\n- Chi Alpha does\u00adn\u2019t exist in a vac\u00adu\u00adum: we\u2019re embed\u00added in the Assem\u00adblies of God and are absolute\u00adly gov\u00aderned by its con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion, bylaws, and pol\u00adi\u00adcy man\u00adu\u00adals. The most impor\u00adtant take\u00adaway from that is that the Nation\u00adal Direc\u00adtor is pret\u00adty much the pope of Chi Alpha when it comes to nation\u00adal deci\u00adsions (as opposed to dis\u00adtrict and local deci\u00adsions).<\/li>\n
- In addi\u00adtion it is help\u00adful to real\u00adize that there are four tiers (for lack of a bet\u00adter word) of lead\u00ader\u00adship with\u00adin Chi Alpha.\n
\n- The Nation\u00adal Direc\u00adtor<\/li>\n
- Nation\u00adal Staff<\/li>\n
- Translo\u00adcal Influ\u00adencers (Area Direc\u00adtors, CMIT Direc\u00adtors, DXARs, nation\u00adal Resource Per\u00adson\u00adnel, etc). This is the most con\u00adfus\u00ading, because most of the groups at this lev\u00adel are entan\u00adgled (almost every\u00adone who serves in one of these roles also serves in at least one oth\u00ader translo\u00adcal capac\u00adi\u00adty) and there\u2019s not real\u00adly a hier\u00adar\u00adcy among them (for exam\u00adple, CMIT direc\u00adtors are sub\u00ador\u00addi\u00adnate to DXARs in cer\u00adtain respects but not oth\u00aders and CMIT direc\u00adtors are more influ\u00aden\u00adtial with\u00adin Chi Alpha than DXARs). Real\u00adiz\u00ading that they are all in rough\u00adly the same tier of lead\u00ader\u00adship (which they express in very dif\u00adfer\u00adent domains) is help\u00adful when try\u00ading to fig\u00adure out how this beast called Chi Alpha actu\u00adal\u00adly works.<\/li>\n
- Local Staff<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Func\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly, each lev\u00adel has auton\u00ado\u00admy with\u00adin their assigned lev\u00adel of respon\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty (for exam\u00adple, no one can tell a local staffer what to preach on any giv\u00aden week). Micro\u00admanag\u00ading is the root of all kinds of evil.<\/li>\n
- We real\u00adly need to define for each group exact\u00adly what deci\u00adsions they are empow\u00adered to make with\u00adout fear of their deci\u00adsions being med\u00addled with. We also need to clar\u00adi\u00adfy who reports to whom. This has to be in a pub\u00adlic writ\u00adten doc\u00adu\u00adment that every\u00adone can look at.<\/li>\n
- The real chal\u00adlenge that we face is trust. My own take on it: many of the tier 3 lead\u00ader\u00adship lack con\u00adfi\u00addence in tiers 1 and 2. Some lack trust in the com\u00adpe\u00adtence of the top tier lead\u00ader\u00adship and oth\u00aders lack trust in the char\u00adac\u00adter of the top tier lead\u00ader\u00adship (update: I do not mean that they lack trust com\u00adplete\u00adly; rather, I mean that they lack com\u00adplete trust\u2013a non\u00adtriv\u00adial dif\u00adfer\u00adence). Most Tier 4 lead\u00aders seem unaware of this dynamic\u2013they tend to hold the Tier 3, 2, and 1 lead\u00ader\u00adship in a cer\u00adtain amount of awe and imag\u00adine that they\u2019re all best friends. Many of them are good friends, and almost all like one anoth\u00ader and are com\u00admit\u00adted to work\u00ading togeth\u00ader effec\u00adtive\u00adly. But there\u2019s still a break\u00addown in trust between the nation\u00adal lead\u00aders and the rest. (update: I wrote an arti\u00adcle explain\u00ading that this is a ten\u00adden\u00adcy intrin\u00adsic to fed\u00ader\u00adal gov\u00ader\u00adnance<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- We need a nation\u00adal rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtive to serve our stu\u00addent-led groups. We\u2019ve invit\u00aded Dave Short to fill this posi\u00adtion (con\u00adtin\u00adgent on his dis\u00adtric\u00adt\u2019s approval).<\/li>\n
- The prob\u00ada\u00adble (but by no means cer\u00adtain) evo\u00adlu\u00adtion of the ALT will inl\u00adcude all the Area Direc\u00adtors along with a non-DXAR non-CMIT Direc\u00adtor rep from their region. Sort of like the Gen\u00ader\u00adal Pres\u00adbytery of the Assem\u00adblies of God.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Any\u00adway, I put all this online for two rea\u00adsons:<\/p>\n
\n- As a local cam\u00adpus rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtive I feel an oblig\u00ada\u00adtion to let the peo\u00adple I\u2019m rep\u00adre\u00adsent\u00ading know what\u2019s going on. As long as it\u2019s not con\u00adfi\u00adden\u00adtial I\u2019ll talk about it freely. If it is con\u00adfi\u00adden\u00adtial I\u2019ll tell you as much as I can.<\/li>\n
- To ask for feed\u00adback. You can either com\u00adment on this post or email me direct\u00adly. I\u2019ll be sure to post the agen\u00adda for the next meet\u00ading once I get it so you can give me input on that head\u00ading into it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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