Chi Alpha @ Stanford

Cook­ies, can­dies, choco­late… who can wait until Halloween?

Come induldge your­self before our first wor­ship ser­vice of the Fall Quar­ter. Sugar-loaded snacks will be served from 7:30 until 8:00, at which point our reg­u­lar meet­ing will begin. If you’re plan­ning to join us, let us know on the Face­book.

Our meet­ings begin with musi­cal wor­ship which is fol­lowed by Bible teach­ing. This week we’ll be talk­ing about what it takes to keep a high spir­i­tual GPA at Stan­ford. The meet­ing will run from 8:00pm to 9:30pm leav­ing you plenty of time to get back for your house meet­ing.

Oh, and there will be healthy alter­na­tives for the non-sugar addicted.

UPDATE: Even Google is excited about our party:

What is a Ver­i­tas Forum?

Ver­i­tas Forums are uni­ver­sity events that engage stu­dents and fac­ulty in dis­cus­sions about life’s hard­est ques­tions and the rel­e­vance of Jesus Christ to all of life. The forums are cre­ated by local uni­ver­sity stu­dents, pro­fes­sors, and min­is­ters while shaped and guided by the national Ver­i­tas Forum team.

What is the mis­sion of Ver­i­tas Forums?

We cre­ate forums for the explo­ration of true life. We seek to inspire the shapers of tomorrow’s cul­ture to con­nect their hard­est ques­tions with the per­son and story of Jesus Christ.

For More Info

Veritas.org

Cur­rent Sched­ule of Events:

Sun­day, May 1, 2005:

• Sun­day evening Step Show and Con­cert with Cur­tis Zachery

Mon­day, May 2, 2005:

• After­noon sem­i­nar — Michael Behe, focus­ing on Chris­t­ian stu­dents in the Bio­log­i­cal and Human Sci­ences (details still in the works on this)
• 6:30–8:00 PM – Dr. Richard Rorty and Dr. Dal­las Willard dis­cuss the ques­tion of author­ity (mod­er­ated by Dean Scotty McClen­nan, located in Hewlett 200 — TCSEQ)
• 8:30–10:00 PM – Michael Behe lec­ture w/ Q&A located in Hewlett 200 — TCSEQ

Tues­day, May 3, 2005:

• Morn­ing sem­i­nar — Greg Jes­son (Pro­fes­sor of Phi­los­o­phy, Uni­ver­sity of Iowa) Evil, Suf­fer­ing and the Mean­ing of it All
• Lunchtime Sem­i­nar – Dr. Gary Haber­mas Evi­dence for Jesus out­side the New Tes­ta­ment along with New Tes­ta­ment Reli­a­bil­ity and the DaVinci Code
• 7:00–8:30 PM – Dr. Dal­las Willard lec­ture w/ Q&A in MemAud. Dr. Willard will pick up on the themes devel­oped the night before. He will likely address author­ity as it relates to moral­ity, gen­eral impli­ca­tions of author­ity for life, as well as other themes deemed appropriate.
• Evening music, dis­cus­sion and refresh­ments in CoHo

Wednes­day, May 4, 2005:

• Morn­ing sem­i­nar – Dr. Gary Habermas
• Lunchtime Sem­i­nar – Nancy Pearcey
• 7:00–8:30 PM – Nancy Pearcey lec­ture in MemAud

Thurs­day, May 5, 2005:

• Morn­ing sem­i­nar — Dr. Gary Habermas
• 7:00–8:30 PM – Dr. Gary Haber­mas Evi­dence for the Res­ur­rec­tion and the Mean­ing of the Res­ur­rec­tion w/ Q&A in MemAud

Super­bowl 39: Patri­ots vs Eagles

Party at Glen & Paula’s place.

The game begins at 3:30. You can show up then or you can arrive around 1:00 for some major Halo 2 action.

Snacks and sup­per will be provided.

Maybe you like sports, maybe you hate sports. You like us, and that’s all that mat­ters. There will be lots of things for peo­ple to do who couldn’t give a rip about foot­ball so come and cel­e­brate (in fact,non-football lik­ers are in the majority)!

Con­tact me if you need a ride.

Quick reminder–the meet­ing for this Wednes­day has been changed.

Instead of an on-campus wor­ship cel­e­bra­tion we’re hav­ing a party at our place. Email or call if you need direc­tions or a ride.

Want to do some­thing that will make the world a bet­ter place?

If you’re like most col­lege stu­dents you don’t have much money to give, but you do have a tremen­dously valu­able resource–idle CPU cycles.

In-between typ­ing the let­ters that will com­prise the words that will com­pose the para­graphs that will be your hon­ors the­sis you can be solv­ing press­ing sci­en­tific prob­lems that could lead to break­throughs in can­cer, AIDS, SARS, malaria, and many other tragic conditions.

All you need to do is visit http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/, reg­is­ter as a user, and down­load their small, unob­tru­sive software.

Once you’ve done that feel free to join our Chi Alpha grid team. That way we all work together and at the same time bear wit­ness to Christ’s love.

But whether you join the team or not, down­load the soft­ware. What do you have to lose except the minute it will take you to install it?

Tues­day Novem­ber 9 at 7:30pm pre­pare for a Halo 2 steel-cage death­match at the Davis House! Email or call Glen if you intend to come. We’ll be using a data pro­jec­tor so the image will be huge, we’ll be order­ing pizza, and award­ing prizes.

Chi Alpha in Stock­ton is spon­sor­ing a con­fer­ence called Ver­ti­cal Revolution.

VERTICAL REVOLUTION (pdf reg­is­tra­tion form)
What: train­ing stu­dents to oper­ate in the super­nat­ural on cam­pus
When: Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 20th
Where: Grace Assem­bly of God in Stock­ton, CA
How Much: $5

The con­fer­ence actu­ally begins Fri­day evening, but we’re going to skip that to avoid spend­ing money on a hotel.

Sum­mer Bible stud­ies are Thurs­days from 12:30pm to 1:30pm in the sec­ond floor lounge of Tresidder.

We’ll be tak­ing a look at the life of David.

David will be inter­est­ing because he’s such a study in contrasts:

• he was a fero­cious war­rior and a skill­ful poet (almost a samu­rai combination)
• he was a per­son of tremen­dous integrity who com­mit­ted heinous crimes
• he was a man of deep faith who used his doubts as a cat­a­lyst for worship
• he started as a youth no one believed in and ended as one of the great­est lead­ers of all time

Any­way, come join us as we delve into David’s life story!

Last night (June 1) was the final meet­ing of the 2003–2004 school year. Details on sum­mer meet­ings will be posted shortly.

Until then, don’t show up.

Home­made ice cream and pool party at Glen & Paula’s house this Sat­ur­day at 3pm.

Yes, that’s right. Home­made ice cream. Yum.

Come work off the stress of immi­nent finals!