Category: Stanford/Ministry News

If you need a pic­ture of Glen for your church bul­letin or for any oth­er rea­son, feel free to down­load one of these. You can click on the pho­to if you need a high­er-res­o­lu­tion image (for the record, you can also down­load any pho­to of us off of this site).

If you need a blurb to accom­pa­ny the pho­to:
Glen and Paula Davis are the Assem­blies of God mis­sion­ar­ies to Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty, where they lead a Chi Alpha min­istry. Chi Alpha is the Assem­bly of God out­reach to stu­dents at sec­u­lar col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties, and is on over 200 cam­pus­es across Amer­i­ca. Glen also over­sees Assem­blies of God col­lege min­istries in North­ern Cal­i­for­nia and Neva­da. You can learn more about them at http://www.GlenAndPaula.com/ and more about their Chi Alpha group at http://www.xaStanford.org/

If you want a pre-made church bul­letin
Down­load it here (PDF for­mat, 500k, half page for­mat). If the size of the bul­letin is wrong for you, you can cre­ate your own by adapt­ing the fol­low­ing text:

Glen & Paula Davis
Glen and Paula are nation­al­ly appoint­ed home mis­sion­ar­ies with the Assem­blies of God, and have been giv­en the priv­i­lege of rep­re­sent­ing Christ to the future lead­ers of the world at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty. Togeth­er, they lead Chi Alpha Chris­t­ian Fel­low­ship at Stan­ford. Glen also over­sees the Assem­blies of God col­lege min­istries in North­ern Cal­i­for­nia and Neva­da. Pri­or to estab­lish­ing the min­istry at Stan­ford, they helped to lead a Chi Alpha min­istry in Spring­field, MO.

Chi Alpha Cam­pus Min­istries
Chi Alpha is the Assem­blies of God out­reach to col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties. There are over 200 Chi Alpha groups in Amer­i­ca, and many more around the world.

Chi Alpha takes its name from two Greek let­ters which stand for the phrase Christ’s Ambas­sadors.

Why Reach Stan­ford?
Because it’s like a steer­ing wheel to our society&em;as goes the cam­pus, so goes the cul­ture. Just think about this: four of Amer­i­ca’s nine Supreme Court Jus­tices are Stan­ford alum­ni.

And it’s not just Amer­i­ca that Stan­ford influ­ences’the pres­i­dent of Peru is a Stan­ford grad­u­ate. In fact, 1/4 of the stu­dents are from anoth­er coun­try, and the two most rep­re­sent­ed nations are Chi­na and India.

Today they learn, but tomor­row they lead. These future world-chang­ers must be reached with the gospel while they are more open than they will ever be again!

If you need a press release:
Rev. Glen Davis, leader of the Chi Alpha min­istry at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty, will be speak­ing TIME AND DAY, DATE, at NAME OF CHURCH, LOCATION.

Glen and his wife Paula are the Assem­blies of God rep­re­sen­ta­tives at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty, the school which pro­duced four of Amer­i­ca’s nine Supreme Court Jus­tices.

Togeth­er they lead a min­istry called Chi Alpha where they help the future lead­ers of the world find rea­son­able answers to hon­est ques­tions.

Chi Alpha (XA) is the Greek abbre­vi­a­tion for “Christ’s Ambas­sadors.” There are over 200 Chi Alpha groups on col­lege and uni­ver­si­ty cam­pus­es across Amer­i­ca (www.ChiAlpha.com for more info).

Pri­or to estab­lish­ing the Chi Alpha min­istry at Stan­ford, the Davis­es served for six years at the orig­i­nal Chi Alpha group in Spring­field, Mo.

You can learn more about them on the Inter­net at www.GlenAndPaula.com and more about their Chi Alpha group at www.xaStanford.org .

For more infor­ma­tion about Rev. Davis’ pre­sen­ta­tion or NAME OF CHURCH, con­tact the church by call­ing PHONE NUMBER or online at WEBSITE .

At the core of my min­istry lies a set of con­vic­tions sum­ma­riz­ing my under­stand­ing
of the Bib­li­cal teach­ings on min­istry and life.

I Must Nur­ture Inti­ma­cy With God: if I do not act out of a vibrant
spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, then I labor in vain. I must reg­u­lar­ly:

1. Pray:
   both with my spir­it and with under­stand­ing
2. Read
   His Word: for per­son­al growth in addi­tion to min­istry tasks
3. Attend
   Cor­po­rate Wor­ship: par­tic­i­pat­ing regard­less of my emo­tion­al state
4. Meet
   With a Small Group of Fel­low-Believ­ers: for account­abil­i­ty and encour­age­ment.

I Must Cul­ti­vate My Char­ac­ter: who I am is more impor­tant that
what I do. Char­ac­ter is a broad top­ic, but I con­sid­er these qual­i­ties
to be cen­tral:

1. Hon­esty: nei­ther telling lies nor slant­i­ng truth
2. Con­sis­ten­cy:
   act­ing on what I pro­fess to believe in pub­lic and pri­vate
3. Courage:
   dis­re­gard­ing per­son­al con­se­quences when fac­ing moral choic­es
4. Hard
   Work: doing the best I can do because God is always my boss
5. Fis­cal
   Respon­si­bil­i­ty: liv­ing with­in my means, being gen­er­ous, sav­ing for the
   future

I Must Build My Mar­riage: God gave me a wife for a reason—she
is to be a friend and a part­ner in min­istry. Plus, I will be mar­ried after
I retire. I ignore that fact at my per­il.

I Must Hone My Skills: God deserves the very best I have to offer.
There­fore I read wide­ly and wise­ly, and I earnest­ly desire book, con­fer­ence,
and oth­er resource rec­om­men­da­tions from those I esteem. My goal is to
mas­ter the essen­tials of my pro­fes­sion. At present, I under­stand those
essen­tials to be:

1. Spir­i­tu­al
   Dis­ci­pline: learn­ing to live a God­ward life
2. Hermeneu­tics:
   learn­ing to inter­pret the Bible respon­si­bly
3. Lead­er­ship:
   learn­ing to help oth­ers act effec­tive­ly
4. Com­mu­ni­ca­tion:
   learn­ing to artic­u­late ideas per­sua­sive­ly
5. Mar­ket­ing:
   learn­ing to intrigue oth­ers with Christ and His Church

I Must Main­tain Healthy Rela­tion­ships: fun­da­men­tal­ly, min­istry
is about rela­tion­ships. As a spir­i­tu­al leader, I accept respon­si­bil­i­ty
for the health of the rela­tion­ships I am involved with and will work to
deep­en them.

I Must Rig­or­ous­ly Ana­lyze My Beliefs: beliefs dri­ve behav­ior.
I have a tremen­dous capac­i­ty for intel­lec­tu­al lazi­ness and self-decep­tion.
I must read the most chal­leng­ing works and talk with the most chal­leng­ing
peo­ple to test my ideas for truth.