The XAi Leadership Intensive Training will be offered again this year from June 7 through July 19, 2022 on Tuesdays from 5:00 to 7:00 pm Central Time. The XAi team has already been praying for the students who will participate and cannot wait to minister to them during the summer.
Each of the seven weeks will revolve around a crucial leadership topic taught by one of three international presenters. The topics will range from the student’s God concept, their self-concept, their character as a leader, and their responsibility to discipleship as a Christ-follower. Students will take part in discussions on navigating leadership with the power and presence of the Holy Spirit as an international with unique cross-cultural obstacles. They will receive a devotional journal with five weekly devotionals. The devotionals corresponding to the week’s topic will have effects long after the intensive is over. During group time, students will learn how to facilitate small groups, and additionally they will be assigned coaches to help them grow throughout this immersive experience.
Campus pastors, we understand that leadership training is a lifelong pursuit. Our aim is to offer a robust training that will help your students visualize themselves as leaders—a critical part of the discipleship process for international students. We hope that it will prepare them to jump into your existing leadership training pipelines to serve the kingdom of God in their highest capacity on your campus.
Ideal XAi LIT applicants are internationals with a heart for Jesus who have been faithful participants in your Chi Alpha ministry and whom you would like to encourage to grow in leadership, specifically in leading small groups.
Early Bird Registration $40 through May 25.
Applications will be accepted until June 1. Regular Registration Price is $50.
When I moved to America, I got involved in Chi Alpha. They modeled what it means to be part of a community, taught me how to conduct fun and Spirit-filled small groups, and empowered me to be a better disciple of Christ. Indeed, that really changed the trajectory of my whole life.
-David Kayembe, Bellevue College, WA
Teaching Team
Cynthia Dobbs
Born twelve time zones from her current home in Oklahoma, Cynthia shares a message of hope and encouragement using her understanding and reliance on the Lord forged through unique life-experiences including growing up in India, living away at boarding school, accompanying her diplomat father to America, and adjusting to the ‘Cowboy’ culture of Oklahoma.
Cynthia and her husband Destry lead Chi Alpha at Tulsa Metro Chi Alpha and Cynthia is the cross-cultural missions resource specialist for national Chi Alpha. Destry and Cynthia reside in Oklahoma with their son Obadiah.
Cynthia heads discipleship ministry training for leaders and often speaks at Chi Alpha services. Her thorough study and exploration of Scripture and exegetical approach to sermon-craft challenges groups to dive deeper into God’s Word for themselves.
Ryota Yogo
Ryota was born and raised unreached by the gospel in a small town in Japan. He came to faith in Jesus through Chi Alpha as an international student at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Upon graduation, he returned to Japan and volunteered with Chi Alpha Japan and his local Assemblies of God church youth group in Tokyo while working full-time in the marketplace for four years.
In 2011, he returned to the US and pursued a M.Ed. in higher education administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), joining Chi Alpha there as full-time staff. His wife Shinobu was also born and raised in Japan, coming to faith in Jesus through the Chi Alpha ministry at the University of Texas in Austin. Ryota and Shin have three young children.
