Glen Davis

God has real­ly been open­ing up some neat doors for us. We just had one of Andrew’s friends, Kwasi Adu (rhymes with greasy sham­poo) over for sup­per. Kwasi is from Ghana, and his name means “Sun­day.” Evi­dent­ly every Ghan­ian (or at least every male Ghan­ian) is named for the day of the week on which they were born. How inter­est­ing…

Any­way, Kwasi and I have read a lot of the same books, so we had a real­ly good time talk­ing. He, Andrew, and I also had a fun time try­ing to fig­ure out whether or not you could cook a chick­en with a suf­fi­cient den­si­ty of radio waves. We decid­ed that you prob­a­bly could­n’t actu­al­ly cook it, but you could do some pret­ty unhealthy things to it.

After­wards, I gave Kwasi a ride home and met one of his room­mates, Nathan, who seemed open to check­ing out Chi Alpha. How cool!

I’ve been get­ting the Stan­ford Chi Alpha web­site ready for launch, and now it’s ready! You can vis­it it at http://www.xastanford.org/.

Here’s what I’ve post­ed so far:
*What Is Chi Alpha?
*What’s Impor­tant To Chi Alpha?
*What Does Chi Alpha Believe?
*What Does The Name Chi Alpha Mean?

One thing I’m very excit­ed about is that the stu­dents will be able to make posts as well, so this will be a true rep­re­sen­ta­tion of our com­mu­ni­ty!

Don­ald Knuth, a retired com­put­er sci­ence pro­fes­sor at Stan­ford, under­took a project many years ago to ana­lyze every chap­ter 3 verse 16 in the Bible. It’s sup­posed to be quite fas­ci­nat­ing, although I’ve not read it yet.

In any event, I just ran across the coolest thing on his web­site: John 3:16 in beau­ti­ful PDF cal­lig­ra­phy. The trans­la­tion is pret­ty neat as well.

On a tri­umphal­ist note, I should men­tion that Stan­ford has won the Sears cup AGAIN

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! That makes 8 in a row. And not only did we win–we won by a lot. Here are the point totals:

1. Stan­ford 1499.0
2. Texas 1110.5
3. Flori­da 1078.0
4. North Car­oli­na 1065.5
5. UCLA 1026.0

See how each indi­vid­ual sports teams did.

In case you’re won­der­ing, the Sears Cup is award­ed each year to the best over­all col­le­giate ath­let­ics progam in the nation. In oth­er words, we rock!

In case you did­n’t know, the Assem­blies of God is divid­ed into dis­tricts, and in mov­ing from Mis­souri to Cal­i­for­nia we changed dis­tricts. We’re now mem­bers of the North­ern California/Nevada Dis­trict.

Each dis­trict is pret­ty autonomous when it comes to inter­act­ing with mis­sion­ar­ies, and so we’ve been delight­ed at how warm our recep­tion has been here. Today we were able to vis­it the Dis­trict Mis­sions Bou­tique, which is a col­lec­tion of very cool stuff (tow­els, sheets, kitchen items, etc) that the wom­en’s min­istries of church­es through­out the dis­trict accu­mu­late to give to mis­sion­ar­ies. Wow! Thanks to all the women who par­tic­i­pat­ed in this program–you are such a bless­ing.