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CHI ALPHA, U.S.A. District and Area Directors

Jeremy Anderson

Hawaii District Director West Coast Area Director

Jeremy and Debora Anderson have been married for 14 years and are blessed with four incredible children. Their visible ministry has always been an overflow the hidden ministry to the Lord and their household. From 2004-2015 God granted the Anderson’s a growing team of missionaries that planted chi alpha ministries on 6 campuses with over 100,000 students on them in California. In 2015 the Lord expanded their territory once again to serve as the West Coast Area Directors for Chi Alpha.

Scott Barnett

Montana District Director

Scott has served as the Chi Alpha State Director for Montana for the past five years. He led Chi Alpha at the University of Montana in Missoula from 2002-2018 and has been in active ministry for almost 20 years. In 1999 he launched into ministry, serving at a local church, helping plant a church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and teaching at a Christian school. He joined staff with Chi Alpha at the University of Montana in 2001, and only planned to serve for one year...17 years later, he is still drinking the XA Kool-Aid. Besides Jesus, Scott is passionate about snowboarding, hiking and live music...especially U2!

Jared Berry

New York District Director

Jared currently serves as the New York AG Youth and Chi Alpha director. Before that, he served for 10 years as a youth, college, and discipleship pastor in Long Island NY. Jared is the co-host of The Multiply podcast. He's been married to his wife Jen for 13 years and has two kids Judah and Charlotte.

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Mark Bettinger

Illinois District Director

After working in the medical field for 12 years, God called Jenn and I and our family (Mady age 11, twins Samuel and Hannah, age 9) into world missions in South Africa serving orphans and vulnerable children. But we were called off the foreign mission field in 2014 due to complications from a chronic lung disease, Cystic Fibrosis, that I was born with. We pioneered Chi Alpha at Eastern Illinois University in 2015 and were brought on as the Illinois DXARs earlier this year. I’m an avid Chicago Bears fan, love to read, travel and take walks with our dachshund, Bob.

Ouida Bradford

Georgia District Director

Ouida Bradford is the full time District Chi Alpha Director in Georgia. She has served in Chi Alpha for 18 years in various roles - part time staff, associate staff, pioneering director, and now district director and internship director for the Georgia CMIT program. Ouida studied English education in college and grad school and loves hearing people's stories. She likes friendly yet random banter, college football, white cheese dip, and Chickfila sandwiches. In 2016 she began foster parenting with the goal of adopting. In August of 2017, she finalized her adoption of Carter, an incredibly imaginative and funny 10 year old who constantly teaches her more about God and a lot about Fortnite.

Steve Brannan

Ohio District Great Lakes Area District

Steve Brannan got involved with XA as a freshman at Ohio University. He became a student leader and was called to serve with XA his junior year at SALT. He completed his internship with Eric Treuil in 2000 and moved to Dayton with his wife, Liz, to pioneer a ministry at Wright State University. They later pioneered on a local commuter campus as well as a private catholic university. In 2010, he became the state director for Ohio, and this past October assumed the role of the Great Lakes Area Director.

Derek Britt

Indiana District Director

Derek Britt is married to Jordan and have two boys, Davis and Jonas. He been the director at Indiana University for seven years and in 2017 started as the Indiana District Director.

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Ryan Brooks

Kentucky District Director

Ryan has worked as a stagehand for U2 and chase crewed for wedding-chapel-in-the-sky hot air balloons. He’s been homeless on the West Coast and worked personal security for Snoop Dawg and Wayne Gretsky. He’s survived tornadoes in Kansas, earthquakes in Nepal and haggis in Scotland. He’s a national award-winning photojournalist and currently lives in a school bus with his high-school sweetheart, two boys and a mutt named Major.

Derik Buescher

Wyoming District Director

Derik is in his 12th year as the director of Chi Alpha Campus Ministries for the University of Wyoming. He is the father of Zane (8) and Truett (5), and the husband of Sonja for the past 13 years. He attended Chadron State College, in western Nebraska, and it was there where he got his first introduction to Chi Alpha. He transferred to North Central University (AG Bible College) and graduated with a pastoral studies and youth ministry degree. He loves everything about college and gets to enjoy most of its perks without the classes and homework. He lives with the passion that if you can touch the university you can change the world.

Winston Bui

Southern California District Director

Winston Bui was born in Saigon, Vietnam and raised up as a Buddhist. As a teenager, he became a Christian and has since become a Chi Alpha Director, the So Cal Chi Alpha District Rep, and he is also the newly elected President for the Vietnamese Fellowship of the Assemblies of God. He has pioneered four Chi Alpha ministries, including one ministry in Oklahoma, one at the University of Missouri, and two in Los Angeles at UCLA and USC, where he is currently serving. He also recently served for several years as the West Coast Area Director for Chi Alpha. Winston has led many missions teams all over the world and has traveled deep into Haiti 39 times. He is a visionary, has a gifted preaching ministry, and a heart for college students. He also loves college football, drinking coffee, and exercising.

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Paul Burkhart

Alaska District Director

Paul & Crystal Burkhart have four amazing kids, Madelyn, Taggart, Axel & Briggs. They previously served as local staff pastors in Ohio and pioneer world missionaries in Lao PDR, a closed nation in SE Asia. In 2012 God redirected Paul & Crystal from Asia to Alaska. After finishing their CMIT training at Sam Houston State University in 2014, they led a team to pioneer Chi Alpha at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. Paul currently serves as the Alaska Network XA Director, has a heart for Alaska's native people and loves to adventure in the greatest state in America! I was a clown, lifeguard and bus boy and once had a cockroach crawl into my ear and get stuck.

Matt Carpenter

Arkansas District Director

Father of 5 sons (Cort, Lane, Cason, Quade, Ransom). Husband of 1 wife (Kiki). Loves Jesus more than anything and believes we can change the world with His help. Believes discipleship is sacred and Truth is not relative.

Mack Clements

Mississippi District Director

Chi Alpha missionaries Mack and Courtney Clements both grew up in Arkansas and both felt called by God to pioneer Chi Alpha in college. They pioneered Chi Alpha at Ole Miss in 2014. Chi Alpha at Ole Miss has grown from 15 students at the first meeting back in 2014 to 150 students in the fall of 2018. In these few years many university students have accepted Christ and been baptized. Chi Alpha Ole Miss has also produced 3 missionaries in it's 4 years of existence. Mack and Courtney not only have a passion for Ole Miss but their desire is to raise up other missionaries to pioneer Chi Alpha Campus Ministries across the state of Mississippi. The Clements have one daughter, Gemma, who is 18 months old.

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Joshua Ernst

Wisconsin-Northern Michigan District Director

Joshua Ernst serves as District Chi Alpha Director for Wisconsin / N. Michigan. After graduating from Trinity Bible College in 2000, he and his wife, Heather, began ministry as youth pastor/Chi Alpha church staff pastor in Dickinson, ND. They fell in love with Chi Alpha and moved to Springfield, MO, to do their CMIT at Missouri State University in 2006. After completing his internship and Master’s Degree at AGTS, they pioneered a new Chi Alpha campus ministry at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in 2007. They led a staff team and heathy, thriving campus group until 2016 when they made the transition to full-time District Chi Alpha Director. Under his leadership, Chi Alpha has multiplied from 2 campuses to 8 campuses, with more coming in the near future.

Andy Estrella

Southern Missouri District Director

Andy Estrella is the Director at Missouri State Chi Alpha. Andy also serves as Director for the Southern Missouri District. Andy graduated from Central Bible College where he received a Bachelor’s degree in Biblical Studies. He has now been serving in Chi Alpha for the last 10 years. Andy believes in discipleship and has created a missions giving culture within the MSU Chi Alpha group. The missions program at MSU Chi Alpha now sends out 9-13 trips each year which includes around 100 students. Andy is married and has 2 amazing daughters. When not spending time on campus he can be found playing disc golf and exercising his “spiritual” gift of hanging out.

Justin Felch

Alabama District Director

Justin was born and raised in southeast Alabama in a rural Assemblies of God church. He felt the call to ministry as a sophomore in college. The summer before starting graduate school at Troy University he was asked by the DXAR to start a Chi Alpha chapter at Troy. He fell in love with campus ministry, and completed a CMIT at Auburn University after receiving his MS is Counseling and Psychology. He has led Chi Alpha at Troy for 13 years and served as DXAR for the last 4 years. He has been married to his wife Joy for 10 years, and has 2 beautiful daughters, Rilee (6) and Hadley (2). His life rule is "Never let a skinny person pick the restaurant!"

Eli Gautreaux

North and South Texas District Director

Eli Gautreaux is the Chi Alpha representative for the North and South Texas Districts of the Assemblies of God. Saved through Chi Alpha as college students in 1990, Eli and his wife Mary began the group at Sam Houston State University as students in 1992 and served as campus pastors until 2018. They remain passionate about reaching students with the Gospel, training workers, and sending ministry teams. They have two daughters and reside in Huntsville, Texas.

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Joseph Gavin

Northern New England District Director

Joe, a native of New York, came to faith while studying clarinet performance at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston through the influence of friends and staff in Chi Alpha. Upon graduation he moved to Bellingham, WA where he completed the CMIT program and served as a missionary associate at Western Washington University. During his time on staff he met and married his best friend Rachel, a graduate and product of the Chi Alpha ministry at the University of Louisiana Lafayette. In 2007 they moved to Vermont to pioneer Chi Alpha at the University of Vermont. They have three children: Jaeda (9), Silas (6), and Caleb (3).

Sara Good

Southern Idaho District Director

Sara Good got involved with Chi Alpha at Idaho State where she met Jesus in a life changing way. From there she did her XA Internship at Central Washington University (2003-2004). Sara returned to Idaho State for a 3-year commitment to be on staff - that was 14 years ago. She felt called by the Lord to plant roots and felt a specific call to longevity at Idaho State in Pocatello. Sara, of course loves Jesus and loves students, but she also has a deep love for mountains, snow, hockey, good coffee, horses, and gas station nachos.

Joe Holloway

South Carolina District Director

Joe and Janelle met and married through the Chi Alpha at the University of Arkansas. They completed an internship together at Florida State with Mario Solari during the 2004-2005 school year. At present, Joe and Janelle have 4 biological kids (ages 11, 10, 8, & 7), 3 adopted kids (ages 7, 5, & 3), a long-term house guest, and 2 adult “kids” (mid-20s). In 2017, Janelle was diagnosed with Stage 3 Breast Cancer. This forced her off-campus for the school year and threw a definitive wrench in their “plans” for the year. During that time, God directed Janelle to be a “beacon of hope in trying times” and to demonstrate to others how to “trust God in our trials”. They are both back on campus this school year and thankful for all God has done.

Fabian Kalapuch

New Jersey District Director

Fabian is the New Jersey Ministry Network Director of Student Ministries. Fabian has a bachelor’s degree in Church Ministries from Southwestern Assembly of God University, and a Master’s in Organizational Leadership from the University of Valley Forge. After graduating from Zion Bible Institute in 1992, Fabian and his wife Dawn came to NJ where they served as the youth pastors at Bridgeton A/G for 6 years. In April of 1999, he was elected as the NJ DYD. For the past 19 years, Fabian's vision for NJYM has been a strong desire to see youth realize their full potential in Christ, becoming students who are: Gospel Centered, Spirit Empowered, and Personally Responsible for their faith and this generation.

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Adam Kolosik

Iowa District Director

Adam Kolosik serves as the Student Ministries and Chi Alpha Director for the Iowa Ministry Network. Adam holds a Masters of Arts in Social Justice from Kilns College. Adam and his wife Kasie live in Des Moines, Iowa with their two boys, Zion and Jude. Adam loves to equip and encourage young leaders to embrace and fulfill all that God has called them to be. Adam has a passion for the next generation and to see them discipled to make more disciples.

Daran Lemon

Rocky Mountain District Director

Daran and Noreen launched Chi Alpha at Utah Valley University in 2013. Daran also serves as the District Director for Utah. They have been in full time ministry since 1996 following college. Daran enjoys fly fishing and roasting coffee. Noreen loves books and feeding lots of people. They have four children and live in Orem, Utah.

Brad Lewis

North Dakota District Director

Brad grew up in a Christian home in western Minnesota. He went to North Dakota State University in the fall of 1976. During his college years, he had three life-changing experiences: 1) he was called into full-time ministry, 2) he was baptized in the Holy Spirit, and 3) God began to teach him how to be intentional in reaching students relationally for Jesus. Brad has had fruitful ministry averaging: over fifty small groups a year, over one hundred students baptized in the Holy Spirit per year, and over two hundred saved or rededicated each year.

Daniel Miller

Big Sky Area Director

Jesus Follower. Disciple. Missionary. Husband. Father. Friend. Area Director. CMIT Director. Athletics Ministry.

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Garry Miller

Michigan District Director

Now 16 years with Chi Alpha, the past 8 years serving as the Michigan District XA Director. Ministry-wise, loves getting new things started and established. Most remembered as the guy whose DNA includes Amish Midgets. (If you have to ask, don’t bother.) Also, loves humor and struggles with using his “filter."

Joshua Moran

Potomac District Director

Josh graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in Religious Studies (2007). During his time in college, his life was radically transformed through Chi Alpha. Upon graduation, he gave a year back to Chi Alpha and was a part of the first Internship class at UVA. He and his wife Katie have 4 kids (Emma, Levi, Judah, Esther) who are a complete joy but more than a handful. Katie and Josh have been married for almost a decade and love doing ministry together. Josh hopes that a love for the Scriptures will be caught by all the students he hangs around. His main life goal is world domination. Some would call him passionate, others just loud. He enjoys black coffee, books, golf, hunting, and coaching his kids sports team. His dislikes are shorter: soccer.

Brad Novosad

Nebraska District Director

Brad and his wife, Shelley, have four kids (two in college) and live in Lincoln, NE. They started in Chi Alpha in 1999 when they moved from Nebraska to Springfield, MO, to do a one-year internship with legendary XAer, Joe Zickafoose. In 2000, they moved to North Carolina and helped pioneer NC State XA and then pioneered UNC-Chapel Hill XA. In 2008, they moved to Colorado where they pioneered UCCS XA in Colorado Springs. Currently, Brad serves as the district director of the Nebraska and Kansas districts, is the assistant regional manager of the Great Plains Area and was voted most likely not to live past his 20th birthday by his High School classmates.

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Ryan Ribelin

Arizona District Director

Kelly and I have been Arizona District Chi Alpha Reps for the past 11 years, and we absolutely love the ministry of Chi Alpha. We met in Chi Alpha at Northern Arizona University as students in 1986, and married when I graduated in 1988. We will celebrate 30 years in December! We have been the campus pastors at NAU since 2000, and love it more each year. We are in our third year of hosting a CMIT program at NAU, and have three guys in the program currently. We love this life place of being spiritual parents to a generation of spiritual sons and daughters. Chi Alpha is more than ministry, it's family.

Joel Schreiber

Pennsylvania-Delaware District Director

I was born and raised in Pennsylvania and grew up as the middle child with two older siblings and two younger. I found chi alpha at Missouri State University in 1999. Married my high school sweetheart, Nichole, in 2004, interning in DC 04-05. Then in 2005 was nationally appointed and started chi alpha in Erie PA. I have three daughters. Cecily age 10, Haley age 5, and Mercy age 3. We love the outdoors as a family and enjoy the beach when we can go.

Mario Solari

Pen Flordia District Director Southeast Area Director

A graduate of Southeastern University (89) RUI/ICM 1993, Nationally Appointed With Chi Alpha (93). Ordained Minister with the Assemblies of God (94). Mario loves his wife of 31 yrs and his wonderful family (3 adult children and son and daughter n law and 3.5 wonderful grandchildren) Mario was the lead campus pastor at Florida State University for 19 yrs until he became the regional and also the district XA director of West Florida. favorite verse: Philippians 4:4-8. What is Mario reading right now? "The Unseen Realm", Michael S. Heiser. Favorite quote: A.W. Tozer: We’re all born with a desire to defend ourselves. And if you insist upon defending yourself, God will let you do it. But if you turn the defense of yourself over to God He will defend you.

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Matt Sprenger

Northeast Area Director

Matt got involved with Chi Alpha while working as a chemical engineer. After serving as volunteer staff for 3 years, he left engineering and joined the staff of Trinity AG in Fairmont, WV, to direct Fairmont State Chi Alpha in January 2005. Matt recently transitioned off the Trinity staff into National Appointment. He took on the Northeast Area Director role in 2017 and believes God wants the pagans of the Northeast to become pioneers and planters. Matt has been joyfully married to Heather for 23 years and has 4 kids: Glenna (19 and a West Virginia University XA small group leader), Isaac (16), Evelyn (9) and Nathan (7). His goatee has no special powers...only normal ones.

Tom Trask

Northern Missouri District Director

Tom's been a Chi Alpha Missionary the past 16 years, the last 14 as Director at the University of Missouri. He has a beautiful wife, Missi, and an awesome 4-year-old daughter named Taylor that he loves very much and looks forward to going on walks with. Tom doesn't so much have hobbies per say but more obsessions. Such as, his borderline snobbery of coffee, flipping cars, and feeding kids around the world. (Obligatory feedONE plug. Seriously though, let's talk.)

Eric Treuil

Louisiana District South Central Area Director

Eric was born in New Orleans, LA and is a lifelong resident of Louisiana. He was born again as a university student while studying theatre at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, LA. Shortly after his conversion in 1982 he started the first Chi Alpha group at Nicholls. Since that time, along with his wife Anabelle, he has served as a US Missionary specifically at Nicholls and the University of Louisiana in Lafayette. In addition to the specific campuses, they oversee all of Chi Alpha in Louisiana and the South Central Area (New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana).

Mike Amiot

Minnesota District Director Great Plains Area Director

Mike and his wife, Laura, live in Savage MN with their two kids. Mike started his journey in Chi Alpha at Winona State University in MN as a CMIT. From there he re-pioneered Chi Alpha at Minnesota State University - Mankato for seven years then moved into the role of a FT District Director for the state of Minnesota. He has served in that role for 16 years. Mike also serves as the Great Plains Area Director.

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Dan Guenther

Northwest and Oregon District Director Pacific Northwest Area Director

I am a lover of college life, hot pizza, off-trail hiking and natural science. Even better: four at a time! My incredible wife, Becky, and I have been doing university ministry since before the dawn of the millennium. Dan holds an MCS (2011) from Regent College with a focus on Christian faith & science.

Nate Banke

Rocky Mountain District Director

Glen Davis Northern California-Nevada District Director

Chuck Lester

Tennessee District Director

Anthony Saladino Appalachian District Director

Greg Tiffany

Oklahoma District Director

Mark Jakelsky West Florida District Director