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So You’re Coming To Stanford

Thrive Spir­i­tu­ally At Stan­ford
Will your faith grow stronger or weaker over the next four years? The choice is yours, and the time to make it is now. Gen­er­a­tions of stu­dents tes­tify that you can thrive spir­i­tu­ally at Stan­ford, and the key is to inten­tion­ally cul­ti­vate your faith.

A brief greet­ing from Glen Davis, the cam­pus pas­tor of Chi Alpha:

  • Read tips for new stu­dents from a sopho­more who’s been there and a reflec­tion on one student’s first year on cam­pus!
  • Check out our rec­om­mended read­ing list for new stu­dents to pre­pare for the intel­lec­tual chal­lenges you’ll find here at the Farm.
  • Scope out the Chris­t­ian groups at Stan­ford. You can find the offi­cial list on the Stan­ford Asso­ci­ated Reli­gions web­site. Scroll down a lit­tle to see it. You can see another list at the Stu­dent Groups direc­tory. It’s pretty much the same, just for­mat­ted differently.
  • Pray. Specif­i­cally, pray that God would do a few things:
    1. Ask God to pre­pare you for the chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties you’ll face at Stanford.
    2. Ask God to give you favor with your room­mate, and that also request that He per­form a pow­er­ful work in their life this summer.
    3. Ask God to help you quickly find a com­mu­nity of Chris­tians on cam­pus that you can be strength­ened by and have fun with. by the way–we hope that’s us!
  • Be encouraged–we’re pray­ing for you all sum­mer long.

Chi Alpha Is Here to Help You
We’ve men­tioned plug­ging into a Chris­t­ian com­mu­nity of stu­dents here at Stan­ford. In case you haven’t fig­ured it out, we’d love to be the group you check out first!

We hope to help you thrive spir­i­tu­ally at Stan­ford by pro­vid­ing you with resources, encour­age­ment, and a group of friends who will be there for you. If that sounds like the sort of thing you’re look­ing for, learn more about us!

To Learn More About Chi Alpha

  • Read Chi Alpha in a nut­shell.
  • IM our fear­less leader:
    Online?
  • Sign up for Chi Alpha’s group dis­cus­sion list. Just send an email to majordomo@lists.stanford.edu with the fol­low­ing in the body: sub­scribe chialpha-fellowship
  • Also sign up to receive Chi Alpha’s email announce­ments (the form is on the side­bar of every page). These are dif­fer­ent from the dis­cus­sion group mes­sages. Those are student-to-student ongo­ing con­ver­sa­tion. This is a weekly update on ‘the haps’ that we send out. The two lists don’t really over­lap in con­tent, so we urge you to sign up for both.
  • Just poke around the site for a while! We update it reg­u­larly, so if you use an RSS reader sub­scribe to our feed (.92, 2.00, atom)!