Why Charter Your Group
Chartering and leaders affiliation is mostly about relationship and prayer. Through chartering a group and/or affiliating as a leader with Chi Alpha you are demonstrating your commitment and accountability to a national campus ministry movement.
Your group and your leadership are identifying themselves as part of the Chi Alpha community on campus nationwide. Association in Chi Alpha affirms your agreement with our vision, mission, financial responsibility, and theology and a commitment to being a community of worship, prayer, fellowship, discipleship and mission in the campus environment where students congregate, live and study.
In chartering and affiliating you are submitting to authority under God within the framework of Chi Alpha and the Assemblies of God.
Besides the less tangible but very real added value that has been outlined above, chartering the group and affiliating as a leader offers the benefit of:
- Connectivity with leaders who share common vision and ministry
- Access to leadership resource at the district, area and national level
- Special grants for evangelism
- Discounted materials
- Promotional and resource tools
- Scholarships for training and quality training events
- Advocacy on your behalf
- Official group recognition on the Web site
- Missions projects for you and your students to participate in
- Digital and written communication from national leadership
The General Council of the Assemblies of God, our parent organization, operates as 56 district councils in the United States. Each district consists of local churches, ministries and ministers.
Each district has officials that oversee that district, and generally a person is designated to represent Chi Alpha. If they are a District Chi Alpha Representative (DXAR) they most likely already serve on a local campus, as a campus missionary and agree to assist with district matters on a part-time basis. If they are a District Chi Alpha Director (DXAD), they are generally a full-time leader whom oversees district Chi Alpha. In some instances a district official or department youth or missions director has the portfolio administrating Chi Alpha chapters and leaders. Local Chi Alpha leaders come under the authority of their district leadership.
Resident national staff and field national staff, including area directors serve Chi Alpha and come alongside the district leaders to assist the advancement of ministry to college and university students in a given district. These staff are available to resource local Chi Alpha leadership, local churches and students.
