Chi Alpha @ Stanford

Wel­come back to school! Tomor­row night (Tues­day Jan 6th) we’re kick­ing things off at 8pm in 300–300.

Come join us as we dis­cuss The Over­load Syn­drome, that pesky ten­dency most of us have to stretch our­selves to the break­ing point.

This Tues­day at 8pm in 300–300, we’ll be talk­ing about How To Be Thank-Full.

Some peo­ple com­plain that God put thorns on roses, while oth­ers praise Him for putting roses on thorns…

Which kind of a per­son are you? Are you some­one to whom grat­i­tude comes naturally?

You see, grat­i­tude is the anti­dote to so many mal­adies that I can barely begin to list them: self­ish­ness, pride, rage, greed, envy, lust, etc. They’re all trumped by the power of a grate­ful heart.

If you’d like to learn how to be more thank­ful, then join us this Tuesday!

Gun­nar Dieck­mann will be speak­ing Tues­day, Nov 4 in 300–300 about the rela­tion­ship between sci­ence and Christianity.

Dr. Dieck­mann holds a Ph.D. in Chem­istry and is also a com­mit­ted Christian.

He wrote a brief essay titled “A Prob­lem Too Hard for Albert Ein­stein,” which you may find inter­est­ing:
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Chi Alpha is spon­sor­ing a mis­sions sum­mit up in Port­land, Ore­gon from Nov 14–16.

If you have any level of desire to touch the world with the gospel, this event is for you!

You can learn more at the West Coast Mis­sions Sum­mit page.

The early-bird reg­is­tra­tion dead­line is this Fri­day (Halloween).

Tonight at Chi Alpha Paula Davis will be speak­ing about one of the most famous sto­ries in all of the Bible: the story of the woman caught com­mit­ting adul­tery.

This is a story we can all relate to, with its themes of guilt, shame, and forgiveness.

FYI: this mes­sage is in our con­tin­u­ing series of teach­ings exam­in­ing the ques­tions that Jesus asked peo­ple 2,000 years ago and still asks each of us today. Tonight we’ll focus in on the ques­tion he asked at the end of the story: “Where Are Your Accusers?”

As always, we’re in 300–300 at 8pm.

Would you like to develop mean­ing­ful friend­ships?
Would you like to have can­did dis­cus­sions about God?
Would you like to learn more about the Bible?

Then we have a deal for you! Chi Alpha spon­sors weekly Bible dis­cus­sion groups (also known as small groups, cell groups, Bible stud­ies, and fel­low­ship groups: it’s not what’s on the label but what’s in the bot­tle that counts).

Our small group Bible stud­ies are weekly gath­er­ings of stu­dents who meet to dis­cuss the Bible and its ram­i­fi­ca­tions. Whether you’re a die-hard skep­tic or a dyed-in-the-wool fun­da­men­tal­ist or any­thing in-between (which is more likely), you’ll feel at home!

This quar­ter we’re offer­ing 2 Bible studies:

• “The Book of James” Tues­day 7:30–9:30pm, Otero 105 (Wilbur Hall)
• “The Book of Judges” Thurs­day 7-9pm, Crothers Memo­r­ial #508

If you’d like more info on any of those, call 650–380-0897 or email chialpha@stanford.edu.

For the first month of school Chi Alpha is spon­sor­ing a church tour. This week we’ll be vis­it­ing Fam­ily Com­mu­nity Church in San Jose. It’s a cool church. In fact, it was named the best church in Sil­i­con Val­ley by the San Jose Mer­cury News! I’m not sure what a news­pa­per knows about churches, but that’s still a pretty cool fact.

FCC is a young, ener­getic, and prac­ti­cal church that I think you’ll really res­onate with. Spe­cial bonus: this church has both Sat­ur­day evening and Sun­day morn­ing ser­vices. If you find your­self sleep­ing in on Sun­day morn­ings (and miss­ing church as a result), this just might be the solu­tion you’ve been look­ing for!

Our ren­dezvous times will be 4:00pm Sat­ur­day and 10:15am Sun­day at the Tresid­der bus stop.

If you want to come along please email or call us and let us know (our info is on the page at the bottom).

Oh yeah–dress for church is casual.

We’re tak­ing a group up to the Expe­ri­ence Pas­sion Wor­ship Tour in Sacra­mento this Thursday.

Chris Tom­lin, the Dave Crow­der Band, and Louie Giglio are going to be pre­sent­ing Passion’s core mes­sage of God’s glory.

If you’d like to come along, email us and let us know!

Tick­ets are $23 apiece and you’ll need to get your own. You can either pay at the door or get them online in advance.

We’ll meet at the Tresid­der Bol­lards (those short funky pil­lars next to the bus stop in front of Tresid­der) at 3:50pm and drive up to Sacra­mento together. The ride will be about 2.5 hours and the event starts at 7:00pm.

By the way, you may have noticed the new RSS Feeds item on the menu bar above. If you use an RSS aggre­ga­tor we offer both RSS 2.0 and 0.91 feeds. If you don’t know what RSS is, check out Lockergnome’s RSS Quick Start guide. Just another way we try to make your life a lit­tle easier…

Hi Peo­ple,

Because there are many new stu­dents who are seek­ing a church in the area, Chi Alpha is orga­niz­ing a series of church tours (we are not lim­it­ing par­tic­i­pa­tion to Chi Alpha mem­bers only). Below is a list of churches for which there are rides avail­able. Please email the con­tact peo­ple listed if you are inter­ested in check­ing out the church.

Feel free to for­ward this mail to other stu­dents or stu­dent groups. If you want to vol­un­teer in bring­ing stu­dents to your church, feel free to email Glen Davis or myself Shaowei Lin with the fol­low­ing information:

Name of Church (City)
Web­site
Ser­vice Timing(s)
Con­tact Person

Hope the first week of class has been great!

Thanks and God Bless,
Shaowei

CHURCH TOUR 2003

28 Sep
Cross­roads Chris­t­ian Cen­ter (San Bruno)

http://www.crossroadsccsb.org/

10:00am
Glen Davis

5 Oct
Fam­ily Com­mu­nity Church (San Jose)

http://www.fccchurch.com/

11:15am
Glen Davis

12 Oct
Com­mu­nity Church of Santa Clara

http://www.ccofsc.org/

10:30am
Glen Davis

19 Oct
Abun­dant Life Assem­bly of God in Cupertino

http://www.alagonline.com/

10:30am
Glen Davis

Every week:

Jubilee Chris­t­ian Cen­tre (San Jose)

http://www.jubilee.org/

9.00am, 11.00am
Ailin Lim
Safiya Daniels <daniels_safiya@gsb.stanford.edu>

Abun­dant Life Chris­t­ian Fel­low­ship (Menlo Park)

http://www.alcf.net/main.htm

9:00am
Joel Goh

The River (San Jose)

http://www.the-river.org/home.htm

9:00am
Kevin Siew

Vine­yard Chris­t­ian Fellowship

http://www.vcfp.org/

9:00am
Nathaniel Rice

Camp­bell Church (Campbell)

http://www.campbellchurch.org/

9:30am
Sean Wat
Shaowei Lin

Berk­land Bap­tist Church (Palo Alto)
[No web­site]
Pick Up 12:50pm; Ser­vice 1–2:30pm; Food & Fel­low­ship 2:45–3:30pm
Jus­ton Johnson

Just a reminder that we’re hav­ing our first meet­ing tomor­row night at 8pm in room 300–300 (map).

If you’re a new stu­dent you might be won­der­ing what the pro­to­col is for com­ing. It’s very simple–you just show up. You don’t need to bring any­thing or do any­thing spe­cial. You might want to grab a friend and bring them with you so that you’ll have some­one there that you know, but even if you don’t you’ll meet lots of people.

Also, we’ve got our new posters avail­able for down­load. Please print one off and stick it on your door. Peo­ple will notice! Get them from our gallery.