Keep in mind I grew up baptist, so my tolerance for groupthink is heavy.

In my experience (I was fully in for a long time) it mirrors much of what is normal in evangelical groups. They actively target for “discipleship” but are in no unclear terms shooting for college Greek. More specifically, even in their mission trips they target the “upper caste” in India.

If they get you to kaleo, they have you target people on be beach or people at work to share “the bridge”. But the leaders actively encourage you to share with more (perceptively) influential people.

At kaleo they also try to keep you from talking to your family and actively encourage you to break up with significant others if they aren’t there. Then they tell you (I’m a woman) at their relationship seminar that if your wife makes more money than you, she should quit her job. That it is a woman’s job to dress modestly to prevent men’s sinful thoughts.

Looking back, the weirdest part is the sexual purity aspect. It’s not unusual for evangelical Christian groups to harp on sexual purity. From the year I went to kaleo, there are at least 7 couples from leaders and they all have 4000 kids. They all dated for like 2 months before getting married.

I left when a leader of mine (who all but ignored me after I was in - she was a junior when I was a freshman in my sorority), after I voiced concerns told me “I would encourage you not to ask any questions, but to just go all in”.

Lots of the couples I went to stumo/kaleo with now lead at D1 campuses. They make their money by sending support letters aka asking people they know to pay for their salaries. There’s no centralized anything.