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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!