Life with Lindsey

Winter Quarter

January 26th, 2008

That’s me (3rd from L) with some of my gals from Stanford Chi Alpha up in the Redwoods for our winter retreat last weekend. We were joined by Chi Alpha students from Southern and Northern California, Nevada, and Oregon for a three day weekend getaway. It was an awesome time of growing in relationship and learning together. Our speakers were Berkeley Church Planters Earl and Jan Creps and Sacramento Pastor Julian Newman. One of the main messages that I walked away from the weekend with is that the call to follow Jesus requires a laying down of self interest.

Back on campus life is full, week 4 of winter quarter starts on Monday and it’s been a busy one already. In addition to two small group Bible studies for undergrads, I am co-leading senior seminar with Glen this quarter about transitioning to life after college. We have a large group of students who are planning to graduate in the next few months and helping them prepare for their next steps is bittersweet.

In about 10 days, Chi Alpha at Stanford is co-sponsoring a lecture by Francis Collins, director of the Human Genome Project and a beleiver. We’ve been promoing the event where he will speak on why science and faith do not have to be mutually exclusive. Collins wrote the New York Times Bestselling book The Language of God, which I (and many of our students) have been reading in anticipation of his talk; I really reccommend it, it’s interesting even to a non-scientist. Please pray for Dr. Collins and the lecture, which will also include a time of question and answers with the students, faciliated by the chair of the Stanford neurobiology department. We are hoping to have more than 1000 in attendance.

Thank you for your prayers for me too. I have been traveling a bit this quarter, speaking up at a high school chapel in Marysville and a youth group in Cupertino. I’ve got a few more dates lined in the next couple months where I’ll be speaking on the road, as well as my responsibilities here on campus–including this afternoon’s project–my sermon for Chi Alpha this week on the lesser known book of Jude. I pray for you today as Jude prayed, that “…mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.”

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