OUR HISTORY - Chi Alpha · OUR HISTORY From the National Senior Director E. SCOTT MARTIN Chi Alpha Campus Ministries, U.S.A. is the largest Pentecostal campus mission in America with

OUR HISTORYFrom theNational SeniorDirector

E. SCOTT MARTINChi Alpha Campus Ministries, U.S.A. is the largest Pentecostal campus mission in

America with a presence on 320 campuses and the potential to expand to 1,000 more.

For 65 years, Chi Alpha has been committed to reconciling students to Christ. In the face of unprecedented change on our university campuses, we remain constant. We remain relevant to a new generation of students and we remain unwavering in our mission.

Our legacy is reflected in the lives of hundreds of thousands of students who have been reconciled to Christ in the midst of the immense challenges and hostile environments on campus. Our impact is on display as a light in the darkness as students abandon their old lives and take up a new life with Christ at the center. Our investment in the lives of students has resulted in changed lives around the world.

The secular university is the fulcrum of all global and societal evolution. Future world leaders are coming to our American campuses eager to learn and our campuses are facing some of its greatest challenges yet. The Chi Alpha Foundation 20/20 Vision Campaign is your opportunity to be a part of God’s perfect vision for the most strategic mission field, the university campus. Will you join us?

Extending His Kingdom,

E. Scott Martin, National Senior Director

Our Mission:Our mission is to reconcile students to Christ, equipping them through Spirit-filled communities of prayer, worship, fellowship, discipleship, and mission to transform the university, the marketplace, and the world.

Our Name:We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors (XA), as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. – 2 Cor. 5:20

Each of us who takes on the identity of a “Christian” becomes a Christ ambassador – Christou apostoloi in Greek – which we shortened to the first letters “Chi” and “Alpha” or XA. Our name is our constant reminder that we are a part of God’s global mission.

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J. Robert Ashcroft calls the Assemblies of God to establish a ministry to the secular universities in America.

First Chi Alpha group starts on the campus of

(Southwest) Missouri State University by J. Calvin

Holsinger

Lee Schultz serves as the �rst National Chi Alpha Director

First regional SALT (Student Activist Leadership Training)

held in Waxahachie, TX

First Campus Missions Conference (CMC) in Spring�eld, MO

First Institute of Campus Ministry, now Reach the

University Institute (RUI), in Spring�eld, MO

The "San Antonio Seven" create the National Chi Alpha Philosophy of Ministry

First campus ministry internship at Western Washington University with Greg Smith, now Campus Missionary in Training (CMIT)

Dennis Gaylor is appointed as the sixth National Chi Alpha

Director and serves for 35 years in the position

Pioneering of the national missions movement

The �rst World Missions Summit in Louisville, KY

Launched Discover the Nations Conference in Austin, TX

The World Missions Summit 2 in Cincinnati, OH

The World Missions Summit 3 in Fort Worth, TX

Establishment of the Diversity Task Force to increase minorities in leadership

E. Scott Martin is appointed as the seventh National

Chi Alpha Director

Establishment of the Advancement Advisory Group

Forged �rst Chi Alpha national sta� team in Spring�eld, MO

First Christian International Student Conference, now All Nations Student Conference,

in Carbondale, IL

First Student Institute of Campus Ministry (SICM) at

Western Washington University

International Student Ministry launched, now XA internationals (XAi), by Dave Schaumberg

Assemblies of God Executive Presbytery moves Chi Alpha

from National Youth Department to become a

department in Assemblies of God U.S. Missions

Launch of the National Chi Alpha Alumni Association

Launch of the Chi Alpha Foundation

The World Missions Summit 4 in Houston, TX, a precursor to the greatest student awakening in

history

THREE BOLD INITIATIVES

Leverage our sixty-year investment by profoundly increasingour organizational capacity to facilitate the unprecedentedgrowth Chi Alpha groups are currently experiencing.

Accelerate growth through the pioneering of new campus groups, support the health of our missionaries and ministries, and promote diversity through the mobilization of minority leaders.

Invest in the future student generations through the startup of the Chi Alpha Foundation Endowment Fund and the National Chi Alpha Alumni Association.

This four-year initiative focuses on the resources needed for the years to come totalling $13 million over four years at $3.2 million a year. We seek the prayers and generous support of all those who see the role of Chi Alpha as critical to reconciling students to Christ on the university and college campus.

The Chi Alpha Advancement Advisory Group invite you to invest in the future. The following giving opportunities are available for annual and monthly support. If you have a special interest, additional opportunities are available by request.

2018 – 2019 BUDGETINCREASE ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY $2,450,000 Cover, Resource and Train over 1,000 missionaries on 320 campuses through:

Student Evangelism and Discipleship

Missionary Recruitment and Training

Missionary Professional Development

Student Missions – Expeditions

Chi Alpha Internationals – XAi

ACCELERATE GROWTH & DIVERSITY $375,000

Pioneering Matching Gift Program $250,000

Minority Mobilization Fund $125,000

INVEST IN THE FUTURE $375,000

Chi Alpha Foundation Endowment Fund $250,000

National Chi Alpha Alumni Association $125,000

TOTAL $3,200,000

Chi Alpha Foundation20/20 Vision Campaign

"Chi Alpha has been the best thing that happened to me in college because through it I got to know Christ.” - Morgan

"Chi Alpha has been the best thing that happened to me in college because through it I got to know Christ.” - Morgan

"Chi Alpha has been the best thing that happened to me in college because through it I got to know Christ.” - Morgan

“Chi Alpha currently has 30,000 students involved on 320 secular campuses, and other campuses around the world. What a golden oppor-tunity to reach students at that critical age with the Gospel. We feel it is a great honor to support their evan-gelistic world-wide outreach.”

- Carl & Hildegard SommerPresident of Reliable EDM

and Advance Publishing

ANNUAL GIVING OPPORTUNITIES MONTHLY GIVING OPPORTUNITIES

$20,000 Robert Wilder PartnerAfter his senior year at Princeton, he and a friend toured 162 colleges during the year 1886-87 to urge students to commit themselves to go into overseas missions. This resulted in 2,106 students signing the Student Volunteer Movement declaration.

$10,000 Samuel Zwemer PartnerSamuel made his commitment to missions in 1888 during the �rst year of the Student Volunteer Movement. He became known as the great apostle to the Muslim world.

$50,000 Samuel J. Mills, Jr. PartnerA student at Williams College in 1806, he led the Haystack prayermeeting that resulted in sending the �rst overseas missionaries from North America. He went on to form the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

$100,000 John R. Mott PartnerIn 1888, he along with Luther Wisard, were the �rst two career full-time university missionaries to establish student Christian campus ministries in America. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for establishing international Christian student organizations that worked to promote peace.

$1,200 Lillian Hunt Trasher PartnerKnown as the “Nile Mother” of Egypt, she was a missionary and founder of the �rst orphanage in Egypt.($100/Month Supporter)

$300 J. Calvin Holsinger Partner In 1953, he pioneered the �rst Chi Alpha group at (Southwest) Missouri State University and is responsible for coining the name “Chi Alpha.”($25/Month Supporter)

$3,000 William J. Seymour PartnerThe primary �gure in the 1906 Azusa Street revival that fosteredthe Pentecostal movement in America. ($250/Month Supporter)

$200,000 Henry Scougal PartnerAt age 15, he formally organized the �rst student-initiated Christian student group at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland in 1665. His book, The Life of God in the Soul of Man,led George White�eld to accept Christ.

$600 Victor & Grace Plymire PartnerHighly esteemed and groundbreaking missionaries to China and Tibet, he �rst entered China in 1908. ($50/Month Supporter)

$6,000 J. Robert Ashcroft PartnerHe was the �rst to urge the Assemblies of God to establish a ministry to secular university students in America (Chi Alpha). Heled the charge in 1947 by sending newsletters to college students encouraging them in their faith.($500/Month Supporter)

"We believe there is no better, more strategic organization to reach our nation and frankly the world than Chi Alpha. We are proud to support the National Chi Alpha Foundation."

- Dr. Tory & Jenny McJunkin Co-Founder of PainDoctor.com

$120 Chi Alpha Alumni Partner Chi Alpha exists to reconcile students to Christ. Chi Alpha alumni take on the mission to transform the university, the marketplace, and the world.($10/Month Supporter)