Chi Alpha @ Stanford

Check it out: our very own Chi Alpha pres­i­dent, Luis Tru­jillo, is in the Stan­ford Daily for help­ing to con­struct a com­mu­nity cen­ter for abused teens, for­mer pros­ti­tutes and oth­ers in Guatemala: Class designs facil­ity for Guatemalan town.

The Guatemalan facil­ity will be a cam­pus for the Cen­ter for the Restora­tion of Women and the Socially Dis­re­garded, also referred to as the CEREM project, after the Chris­t­ian orga­ni­za­tion spon­sor­ing its devel­op­ment. The cen­ter will act as a res­i­den­tial cen­ter and school for home­less chil­dren and for­mer pros­ti­tutes, as well as a church and place of retreat.

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Luis has actu­ally been a key player in this thing from start to fin­ish. He’s got a mar­ginal role in the arti­cle, but Luis is the guy who set the ball in motion, hooked CEREM up with the Stan­ford class, and has gen­er­ally been push­ing to make it happen!

Way to go, Luis! We’re proud of you: get­ting a Stan­ford class to design a Chris­t­ian min­istry cen­ter is an awe­some way to lever­age the gifts and oppor­tu­ni­ties God has given you.

UPDATE: there’s another arti­cle on the Stan­ford web­site that cov­ers the project from a slightly dif­fer­ent angle. It also gives Luis a lit­tle more promi­nence (well-deserved, I might add).

Bart Simp­son loves Chi Alpha!

Don’t believe me? Click here.

What’s up with the platy­pus? I mean, have you ever looked at the things? They’ve got fur, a duck bill, webbed feet, they lay eggs, and they’re poi­so­nous–what’s up with that? It’s almost as though some demented sci­en­tist went Franken­stein on a farm. The pieces just don’t seem to fit.

God is good, yet pain runs ram­pant on the earth. The pieces just don’t seem to fit.

We live in a platy­pus world, and it can be pretty darn con­fus­ing at times. Peo­ple have been ask­ing God about this for ages, and one time God answered.

The questioner’s name was Job, and he was fed up with his platy­pus sit­u­a­tion. Things didn’t add up, and he wanted to let God know about in no uncer­tain terms.

So come to Chi Alpha this Tues­day at 7:30pm and hear what God told Job. If you’re like me, you’ll find it surprising…

this mes­sage will serve as a place­holder for the notes from my talk

these are the notes from a mes­sage Glen Davis shared at Chi Alpha May 6th, 2003

The point of an open mind, like hav­ing an open mouth, is to close it on some­thing solid. G. K. Chesterton

Here’s one of my favorite poems: Creed, by Steve Turner. You might want to print this one off and hang it on your door–I bet it’ll get a response from your dor­m­mates!
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