Chi Alpha @ Stanford

Paula Marks, who is mar­ried to Bob Marks on the Chi Alpha National Lead­er­ship Team, had a brain aneurysm burst last night. Accord­ing to the email I received, “she is cur­rently in a coma in neuro inten­sive care unit and is unre­spon­sive.” The aneurism is deep in her brain, which makes surgery difficult.

Bob and I used to joke that we were lucky men–we each had a Paula. Please ask God to restore Bob’s Paula to him.

UPDATE: On 12/4 in the morn­ing I received this email:
“Many of you are email­ing me want­ing a lat­est update on my mom.

That is what I am pray­ing for. I told her that last night and reminded her that her strength is in the LORD. PSALM 121 is what we have taped in her room…we are also remind­ing her that it is “Not by might, nor by power but by His spirit, says the Lord.” Thank you for pray­ing for her! ”

UPDATE: on 12/4 in the after­noon I received this mes­sage:
We just got a call from the hospital…when the doc­tor asked Paula to raise
her two fin­gers– she did.

Praise God for his answer to prayer! The fam­ily is very encour­aged, but
Paula still needs our prayers for con­tin­ued healing.

Don’t for­get: Big Game is this week­end! In addi­tion to the usual fes­tiv­i­ties, the united cam­pus min­istries at Stan­ford are spon­sor­ing an event called Big Praise Sat­ur­day 7pm in room 2050 of the Val­ley Life Sci­ences Build­ing on Cal’s campus.

The wor­ship team has rep­re­sen­ta­tives from both cam­puses, and this will be a great oppor­tu­nity for us to cel­e­brate our com­mon faith with our broth­ers and sis­ters in Baby­lon, I mean, in Berke­ley. If you need a ride or are will­ing to pro­vide a ride to oth­ers, please email Luis Tru­i­jillo: lmtru@stanford.edu

By the way: it is the­o­log­i­cally accept­able to love your neigh­bor and yet hope for their total humil­i­a­tion on the foot­ball field. Just in case you were won­der­ing.

FYI: today is Cheng Chang Wong’s 24th birth­day. Many of you know him as Josh–you know, Adeline’s beau.

Happy birth­day, Josh!

Inci­den­tally, the jux­ta­po­si­tion of this announce­ment with last Friday’s post­ing leads me to some inter­est­ing con­clu­sions about what peo­ple are up to around Feb­ru­ary in Singapore…

L-R: Jimmy, Ming Fai, and Josh the Birth­day Boy!

Shaowei Lin turns 21 today! Woohoo!

We’ll be cel­e­brat­ing tonight at 7:30pm over at Brahma Bull (an Indian restau­rant) over on Cal­i­for­nia Avenue. Feel free to join us!

the photo fea­tures Nathaniel Rice and Shaowei Lin hav­ing fun at our most recent Chi Alpha meeting