Brian and Mindy Hargett, national XA Expeditions Directors, introduced the acronym (THUMB) to identify Tribal, Hindu, Unreligious/ University, Muslim, Buddhist peoples groups who need our intercessory prayer and to hear the good news.
Check out this missions article https://news.ag.org/en/News/A-New-Mission-Trip-Model by Beth Hall Davis, October 4, 2021, that introduces Chi Alpha’s Virtual Missions Tours.
Check out GlenandPaula.com. Glen writes “Things Glen found interesting.” and has already written more than 300 interesting installments. Glen and Paula Davis have served as campus missionaries at Stanford University since 2002.
Every Friday Glen shares articles, resources about broad cultural, societal, and theological issues. He wants to make sure you see his explanations and disclaimers at the bottom of his post. He also welcomes suggestions, and if you read something fascinating please pass it along. Glen also keeps a cache of quotes and continues to add quotes, and catalogue them. He has 3,169 of them.
XA at The University of Virginia (xaatuva.com) has a drove of campus ministry resources on their website. They include a resource library with twelve XA essentials and articles on the three anchors of XA: real devotional life, real community, and responsibility; and core group studies for small group meetings; and devotional studies for personal spiritual development, and if that is not enough to last you during your campus experience, check out the audio archives of messages during the school year arranged by the book, topic, speaker, and date, and these audio messages include the fall and winter retreats.
