Hey Glen. Here's the sources: Jerry Parsley, the Regional Director for AGWM Eurasia said, and I quote him accurately, "No one has done for the Middle East and North Africa what Chi Alpha has done." He went on to elaborate on our teams and long term vision, long-term missionaries, and impact. The quote that XA is sending the best missionaries has come from Regional Directors Jerry Parsley and Greg Mundis (Europe). Nancy Hand from AGWM special ministries has also told me she hears many times in closed doors how XA is sending the best in missionaries and teams. Yes, the statement made that XA is the largest producer of missionaries for AGWM today needs to be taken in the context that over the past 2 years we have produced more than a single bible college. I think though that if they really looked at it, we probably produce more than the majority of our bible schools collectively in terms of people coming directly out of the BC vs. our people coming out of XA.

77% of AG teens leave the church after they graduate from high school.

2/3 of college students on any given Sunday are not in church.

66% of teens have decided to leave the church upon graduation.

Over 70% of the international leaders in government and business will do some of their study in the U.S.

The average American makes seven major decisions in his/her adult life. Five of the seven are made (or at least begun) in college. Think about the choices you made as a university student, and how it affected where you are today. For most, decisions about relationships, location, religion, lifestyle preferences, and vocation are made in college. The only two that aren't made in the young-adult years are retirement and investments.

Charles Malik is a Harvard educated Lebanese scholar and diplomat. He received more than fifty honorary doctorates from Canadian, American and European universities, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Notre Dame. Here is what he writes: "The university is a clear-cut fulcrum with which to move the world. The problem here is for the church to realize that no greater service can it render itself and the cause of the Gospel, with which it is entrusted, than to try to recapture the universities for Christ on whom they were originally founded. "One of the best ways of treating the macrocosm is through the handle of the universities in which millions of youths destined to positions of leadership spend, in rigorous training between four and ten years of the most formative period of their life. "More potently than by any other means, change the university and you change the world." (Charles Malik)

Ministry Is More Than Faithfulness

When you don't have momentum in ministry, you are tempted to redefine what it means to be minister. That's not bring minister. That's being a Christian. Christians walk in faithfulness. Ministers must also walk in fruitfulness. You're not sent to just walk on campus and feel good about yourself. You're sent to campus to minister to students - and that means you've got to gather students to minister to!