Bio > Derrick Jackson

DERRICK, THE DIRECTOR:

Derrick has spent the last decade working with Chi Alpha in Louisiana and Texas, first as a student, then as part-time staff, and finally as a full-time, credentialled director. His passion is simple: make disciples for Christ. His method is relaxed and relational. In daily terms this looks alot like playing disc golf (4 over on 18), drinking lots of coffee (quad-shot Americano, black), and playing guitar (currently, Breedlove acoustic). And somewhere in the midst of putting for a Birdie, through the smell of freshly-ground espresso, and over the notes of a perfectly tuned guitar, he turns the conversation to the Lord.

FULL BIO:

Derrick and Ashley met as students in a Biology class at Louisiana Tech University - as Derrick likes to say, "We met in Biology but it was Chemistry.” Our college years in Chi Alpha were some of the most amazing of our lives - learning about God, how to serve Him, and falling more and more in love with Him everyday! God put in us both a deep desire to see Him do in the next generations of students what He did in us in college. God has called us to be Chi Alpha campus missionaries!

In 2004 we entered a year-long internship program under Eli Gautreaux, veteran campus missionary and director of the largest Chi Alpha group in the country, at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX. After serving 2.5 years on staff at Louisiana State University, we returned to Sam Houston to work once again with Eli. We spent that year leading a team every week to Stephen F. Austin to re-plant the Chi Alpha ministry there, and at the end of the year, we committed to God’s call to be a light for Christ at SFA full-time!

We were married in 2003 and have lived in 7 houses in 4 cities in two states in 6 years.  In October 2009 we were blessed with our first child, Katelyn Michelle Jackson - on my (Ashley's) 29th birthday!