Chad Young works in full-time college ministry, serving as Cru Global's national director over the southeast region, leading the ministries in FL, GA, AL, and MS. He has served on the staff of Cru for fourteen years. He is the author of AUTHENTICITY: REAL FAITH IN A PHONY, SUPERFICIAL WORLD (InterVarsity Press), a discipleship-training manual, and magazine articles for Worldwide Challenge and The Collegiate. He frequently speaks at retreats and conferences and regularly writes devotionals for his website, findingauthenticchristianity.com. Chad, with his wife Elizabeth, travels the country to speak at churches and train church leaders how to make Biblical disciples.
Chad currently resides in Atlanta, GA, with his wife Elizabeth and their four young children, Wyatt, Clark, Evelyn, and Josilynn. His hobbies include cheering on his kids in sports, following college football, and laughing with family around the backyard fire pit.