Ministry Wishlist

DISCLAIMER: this infor­ma­tion is on our web­site because some peo­ple actu­al­ly come here look­ing for it. Oth­er peo­ple get hor­ri­bly offend­ed at the men­tion of mon­ey and dona­tions online. If you’re not of the for­mer, chill. Just fil­ter out this mes­sage and look at some of the more enter­tain­ing stuff on this site.

You’re still here? Good. 🙂

Some­times peo­ple are more inter­est­ed in mak­ing one-time dona­tions than in becom­ing a month­ly part­ner (and some­times month­ly part­ners want to make a spe­cial gift).

If that’s you, then here are some needs that we have in our min­istry.

Expensive Items

$10,000,000 to estab­lish a min­istry cen­ter near Stan­ford.

Yeah, it real­ly would cost at least that much. We’d be look­ing at pur­chas­ing an exist­ing reli­gious cen­ter or a busi­ness prop­ert adja­cent to cam­pus and then remod­el­ing it.

Fail­ing that, $1,000,000 to pur­chase a home near Stan­ford.

Again, it real­ly would cost that much. We’re cur­rent­ly rent­ing about five min­utes from Stan­ford and there’s a home across the street on the mar­ket for $1.1 mil­lion. And it’s not a real­ly nice house–housing prices are just ridicu­lous here. This mat­ters because the nature of our min­istry is rela­tion­al, and so we have stu­dents over all the time. If we had a home with­in 15 min­utes of Stan­ford we’d be bet­ter stew­ards of God’s mon­ey (not spend­ing it on rent) and we’d be able to up the qual­i­ty of our min­istry to stu­dents rad­i­cal­ly. We’d have more stu­dents over more often and accom­plish more in the way of dis­ci­ple­ship and mod­el­ing. Plus, we’d be able to host oth­er min­is­ters in our house for a week or two at a time and expose the stu­dents to them and their min­istries, there­by increas­ing the like­li­hood that stu­dents would “get it.”

Midrange Items

$6,000 to set up a mul­ti­me­dia stu­dio.

This would cov­er a dig­i­tal video cam­era, a ded­i­cat­ed com­put­er for video-edit­ing, and the soft­ware nec­es­sary to do high-qual­i­ty videos. With such a stu­dio, we could cre­ate high-qual­i­ty train­ing videos for col­lege min­istries across Amer­i­ca. We could also do some neat stuff in our large-group meet­ings at Stan­ford.

$500 for a smart­phone.

This would help Glen be more organized–and he needs all the help he can get!

Inexpensive Items

Any­thing from Glen’s Ama­zon Wish­list or Deli­cious Wish­list.

These are almost all books or oth­er resources use­ful for min­istry. Of course, some are just ran­dom.

If you would like to pur­chase any of the above items, either give online or just send a check for the amount need­ed to
  Chi Alpha #2650299
  1445 N Boonville Ave
  Spring­field, MO 65802

Also be sure to email us and let us know what you’ve done so that we know the pur­pose the funds are des­ig­nat­ed for!