Courtney Bancroft - Chi Alpha - Philadelphia

I can definitely appreciate the willingness of Courtney to be able to go into a tough city like Philadelphia and a tough college like temple to minister. I know rough Philadelphia can be, living there myself, seeing everything that goes one there. And for her obedience to God to come up here from maybe a comfortable place in D.C where she had a lot of support to here where there is basically known. I thought that it was very sad and a disgrace that a lot of the local churches would not even return her calls. I think that is a big thing that needs to be addressed in churches today and in the AG as well. There are not many programs for college age students or college groups. And there is a big turnover rate of people leaving the faith after the graduate from high school. Churches are willing to help other programs like youth, children or missions and they to need to focus on them, put not many are willing to give much support to the college age students. One of the things I like about Chi Alpha is that they focus more on discipleship than just reaching the numbers and get people saved. I mean it is very important to get people saved, obviously. But they focus on building people in Christ and their relationship with Christ which is very important as well. And especially in the college groups, because that is one of the main things that college students struggle with after graduating from high school , having a deep relationship with Christ, which can cause a lot to doubt, struggle or even leave their Christian faith and beliefs. I think that is great that they are able to reach out to and focus on reaching the unsaved and at the same time be able to disciple people and lead them in deeper relationships with Christ.