How To Volunteer

prac­ti­cal things you can do to help us in our min­istry

Paula and I have been think­ing late­ly about how peo­ple can become involved with our min­istry at Stan­ford beyond pray­ing

and giv­ing. Here’s an ever-evolv­ing list of things you can do to help out:

  • Come and prayer­walk the cam­pus. Not famil­iar with prayer­walk­ing? Learn more about it!
  • Serve as a men­tor for a Stan­ford stu­dent. We’re espe­cial­ly eager to find Stan­ford alum­ni will­ing to devel­op a pur­pose­ful rela­tion­ship with a stu­dent.
  • Act as a host fam­i­ly for a stu­dent. Let them come do laun­dry at your house, feed them home cooked meals every once in a while, and take them shop­ping once a month or so.
  • Do their home­work for them (just kid­ding).
  • Pro­vide rides to church.
  • Come uti­lize a min­istry gift at our week­ly wor­ship ser­vice (Wednes­day nights at 8pm). We’ve already got a wor­ship leader and a speak­er, but tell us what you’re inter­est­ed in and we’ll see.
  • Vol­un­teer your exper­tise with cre­at­ing com­pelling dual-encod­ed HTML/AOL/text emails.
  • Vol­un­teer your web exper­tise and help us make our sites (xastanford.org and glenandpaula.com) bet­ter.
  • Help us fold and stamp our print newslet­ters once a month. We send out about 500, and our fin­gers sure get sore!
  • Send Glen use­ful links, arti­cles, and book rec­om­men­da­tions to assist in his ser­mon prepa­ra­tion.
  • Intro­duce us to Stan­ford alum­ni that you know (espe­cial­ly Chris­t­ian ones).
  • If you feel called, pur­sue appoint­ment as a Cam­pus Mis­sion­ary Aide through Chi Alpha Cam­pus Min­istries and work with us part-time on cam­pus.

If you’re inter­est­ed in any of these oppor­tu­ni­ties, let us know. We’ll inter­view you and talk to you about expec­ta­tions (both our expec­ta­tions of you and your expec­ta­tions of us).