The world-class campuses within the Washington DC beltway are renowned for their programs in public service, political science, government, and international relations.

Moreover, these schools offer excellent degrees in medicine, law, business management and engineering. Washington attracts some of the brightest and most promising international students from all around the world.

Many students come to DC so they can engage in a governmental internship or participate in a study-abroad program.

The campuses of DC are widely diverse. Washington boasts the only university in the world for the hearing impaired, a prestigious and academically elite African-American university, several major Catholic universities, and the first “national” university, plus a world respected state university.

DC Target Campuses

We have selected the following DC-area campuses as Prayer Targets:
Howard University
George Washington University
George Mason University

For us a prayer target is a campus we commit to prayer and vision-casting until God provides the leadership, favor and the opportunity to establish a ministry on that campus.

Harv Herman

Harv Herman serves at the Campus-Missionary-in-Training Director for the DC area campuses. In Harv's 30 years with Chi Alpha, he has pioneered and directed five different campus groups, served as senior pastor of a university church in Seattle, and filled the role of missionary training coordinator for the national office. In 1999 he moved to Washington DC to coordinate the development of Chi Alpha in the DC area and over the Northeast USA. Harv is, also, the director of the Campus Missionary-In-Training internship program for the DC Metro Chi Alpha Team. Harv and his wife, Sally, have two children ­ Sarah and Matt ­ who are also serving with Chi Alpha Campus Ministries.

Sandy Freitas

Sandy Freitas is a campus missionary serving as the DC Team Coordinator for Resource and Training Development. She was saved as a student at the University of the Pacific (UOP) in Stockton, California. After graduation, she did her CMIT program there as well. She went on to serve UOP as campus minister for 10 years, the final two years as the director. She also directed the UOP CMIT program and has been an instructor at the national Reach the University Institute. She is married to Jayme and has one son, Joseph, who joined their family in January 2003.

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