Gene and Lynn Breitenbach (BU)

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Boston University
Gene and Lynn Breitenbach
gene@abovethehaze.org
lynn@abovethehaze.org
www.bostonuchialpha.org

Gene and Lynn are both products of Chi Alpha. Gene became a Christian just a few weeks before attending Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. It was there he was rooted in the faith. Lynn had become a Christian earlier but it was as a result of her time with the same Chi Alpha ministry that she was equipped and called to ministry.

After graduation and a year as interns with Chi Alpha at Western Washington University, Lynn and Gene became Chi Alpha’s first national campus evangelists. They traveled throughout the United States and Canada sharing on college campuses. Gene did evangelistic presentations in residence halls and classrooms and led open-air discussions. Lynn is a songwriter and a singer, and she used her gift in evangelistic concerts in campus squares and residence halls.

Ephesians 4 states that the work of an evangelist is to equip others for the work of ministry. To that end, Gene and Lynn spent most of their time training Christian students in how to share their faith by bringing the students with them as they did personal witnessing on campus.

In the middle of their campus evangelism experience they returned to Western Washington University and served as campus pastors for five years.

In addition to their hands-on work with students, they have created evangelistic materials that have been used broadly. They created an evangelistic newspaper for campuses called, The Communication Thing, in the eighties and early nineties. The paper reached a total circulation of half a million copies. Gene created Chi Alpha’s first evangelistic CD-ROM, and has done extensive work to use the Internet for outreach. He currently produces the Above The Haze creative podcast. Lynn has recorded one album and is currently working on another.

In the fall of 2006, they began work on Boston University in Massachusetts where they currently serve. Their emphasis remains reaching the lost on campus. They continue to create resources that are used on a number of campuses throughout the U. S. and are working to create new material that will allow Chi Alpha to partner with churches throughout the Northeast to reach even more campuses.