Hello friends!
Its Wednesday morning at 8am. I'd like to be downstairs watching the today show and lazing away my day. Instead I'm supposed to be reading for class (a book by Beverly Tatum called, "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" - its a GREAT book) but in reality, what am I doing?..... yes, I'm on Facebook.
Amber East: I've become a Facebooker. Its devastating. I don't know that its so bad that I have to force myself off of it or anything (yet) but it is indeed comical to me that I am now interested in wasting my time a social networking site. :(
OK, everyone. Today is WORSHIP CHAPEL day and I'm pretty excited about it. My friend Ryan Richardson ("Chapel Ryan") who works in my office and the Chapel Band (most of whom are part of my youth ministry team) are leading worship today for the entire hour. Or at least most of the entire hour. I'm pretty excited about the opportunity to head to chapel at 11am and just sing my brains out for 40+ minutes. It takes me back to the old days at New Song when after Brian's sermon the music would start and it would just continue - sometimes for an hour. Oh Holy Spirit, come down and ignite the auditorium today, speak to your children and may we hear your voice! Amen.
I have been doing well in classes, for those of you wondering. I'm slightly nervous about upcoming midterms, but so far living in denial about them and hoping that if I knew the material earlier this semester, I still know it. A fair assumption, but not a certain one.
I'm planning a trip to Greenville over the first weekend in November. I'll be in town for Senior Day for Football and I'm pretty excited to attend a pre-game tailgate and to watch my first recruiting class walk down the tunnel on the 50 yard line. HOORAY! I can't believe how many of them are still here from that year, and how they've matured into really neat men. If I had a daughter their age, I might even let them date her. :)
I'm also planning to be home for Christmas, in Phoenix. Its a long story, filled with plans of other people changing, but I decided that it was worth it to see my grandparents. And that perhaps the Lord will provide the funds, instead of me dipping into my reserves (read: student loan). I don't think I'll make it to Seattle. Its grievous to me that I won't, but it doubles the cost of travel. If the Lord provides the money or a ticket, then I'm there, baby! I'll be on the first flight I can from Phx to visit y'all up there. I'm hoping to find a way to save up $$ and also hoping my class schedule works, for me to attend the Jesus Ministry conference next summer. If it all works out, I'd be able to be in Tacoma the last week in July for the conference.
Well, that seems like enough of an update for now. Here are some final blurbs and then I'm off to read (repeat: read, NOT watch Matt Lauer, NOT get on Facebook...)
* church was great on Sunday: Crowder band let worship, Gideon Tsang spoke - God was present and I needed to hear the message.
* I love my classes and am enjoying my profs
* went to the game on Saturday: dissapointing loss to Army. :( boo hiss.
* tonight I'm going to a worship event from 11pm to midnight..... who do I think I am? some 20 year old?
Love you all!!
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Wow - what a busy time!
Hi Friends! Here is the latest in a series of updates. I think so far in Waco I've done better about actually sending "updates" on my activities and life than I did in Greenville. In Greenville I was more philosophical. Now I only have time to be that philosophical on my essays. :) But don't worry... I'm sure I'll still wax poetic pretty regularly. Especially the more I learn big words and how to write, I anticipate that someday these web updates will be high literature.... kidding, kidding.
OK - so its been about a week since my last writing.
Quick news/notes:
* My youth ministry team went out last Wednesday for the first time. They are AWESOME!!! Here's the deal (because I don't think I've articulated this before) - Baylor has a program where they create teams of undergraduate students (with a few grad students on board, too) and then send them to youth groups around texas (when invited by churches) and they put on a youth night in place of their regular youth group evening. Each team has a worship band, speaker and then any combination of others who give their testimony, run games or do dramas. The youth get a chance to see students in ministry and hear from someone other than their pastor (and these churches are small and may have a pastor who has two or three roles and is not just a youth pastor, and their youth group may be small - so its a blessing for the pastor, too). Baylor gets a chance to have high school and jr. high students exposed to the University.
* So anyway, my team is comprised of the Chapel worship band (they are a really neat bunch, who've been together for a while and have a sincere love for Jesus and fun, great attitudes), a friend of mine (Marquette Bugg - how cool is her name?!) who is our speaker, and then a bunch of great women who take the other various roles. My job is to organize the group, make sure we have all the tools we need and then drive the van and just hang out with them on the way, while we're there and afterward at dinner. I love it. I get to pray for them and support them and enable them for ministry and then just watch them fly. SO FUN!
* Last weekend, I went to San Antonio and visited the Fergs again. It was a great weekend... partially because our friends Dawn and Taylor Swendsen were there, with their small son: Ezra. It was great to see them and get caught up. It was even BETTER that we were together at John and Karen's - kind of surreal for all of us to be together but be in Texas. We had a great time together and the Lord blessed us all through the opportunity!!!
* Right now at work I'm planning a gathering of all the chaplains of Greek Life and I'm hoping to figure out a time that will work well for most of them. The difficulty is that "Pigskin" is coming up soon - which is an evening of full-on musical performances by select student groups (those who were in the top 6 or 10 from the spring "Sing" competition) and many of the groups are Greek and have practice ALL THE TIME so I'm trying to schedule around chapter meetings, Pigskin practice and costume fittings and voting nights (because at the same time they are also doing fall rush!) I'm also trying to pray about and plan a ladies bible study for the women in that group. Hopefully I can get that started in October.
So with all those things, I'm also going to class (I love class - so nerdy, but I don't even care. I like my cohort a lot, and I'm enjoying what I'm learning.), trying to do homework (I have my first "research" paper due this Friday - yikes) and also cultivating a social life (lets just call this what it is: an Amazing Race support group).... God is good. I'm coming out of the darkness of my sad week (last week's post) and moving more confidently in the Lord's plans for me.
God bless you this week!
Jim McGreevey
OK - so its been about a week since my last writing.
Quick news/notes:
* My youth ministry team went out last Wednesday for the first time. They are AWESOME!!! Here's the deal (because I don't think I've articulated this before) - Baylor has a program where they create teams of undergraduate students (with a few grad students on board, too) and then send them to youth groups around texas (when invited by churches) and they put on a youth night in place of their regular youth group evening. Each team has a worship band, speaker and then any combination of others who give their testimony, run games or do dramas. The youth get a chance to see students in ministry and hear from someone other than their pastor (and these churches are small and may have a pastor who has two or three roles and is not just a youth pastor, and their youth group may be small - so its a blessing for the pastor, too). Baylor gets a chance to have high school and jr. high students exposed to the University.
* So anyway, my team is comprised of the Chapel worship band (they are a really neat bunch, who've been together for a while and have a sincere love for Jesus and fun, great attitudes), a friend of mine (Marquette Bugg - how cool is her name?!) who is our speaker, and then a bunch of great women who take the other various roles. My job is to organize the group, make sure we have all the tools we need and then drive the van and just hang out with them on the way, while we're there and afterward at dinner. I love it. I get to pray for them and support them and enable them for ministry and then just watch them fly. SO FUN!
* Last weekend, I went to San Antonio and visited the Fergs again. It was a great weekend... partially because our friends Dawn and Taylor Swendsen were there, with their small son: Ezra. It was great to see them and get caught up. It was even BETTER that we were together at John and Karen's - kind of surreal for all of us to be together but be in Texas. We had a great time together and the Lord blessed us all through the opportunity!!!
* Right now at work I'm planning a gathering of all the chaplains of Greek Life and I'm hoping to figure out a time that will work well for most of them. The difficulty is that "Pigskin" is coming up soon - which is an evening of full-on musical performances by select student groups (those who were in the top 6 or 10 from the spring "Sing" competition) and many of the groups are Greek and have practice ALL THE TIME so I'm trying to schedule around chapter meetings, Pigskin practice and costume fittings and voting nights (because at the same time they are also doing fall rush!) I'm also trying to pray about and plan a ladies bible study for the women in that group. Hopefully I can get that started in October.
So with all those things, I'm also going to class (I love class - so nerdy, but I don't even care. I like my cohort a lot, and I'm enjoying what I'm learning.), trying to do homework (I have my first "research" paper due this Friday - yikes) and also cultivating a social life (lets just call this what it is: an Amazing Race support group).... God is good. I'm coming out of the darkness of my sad week (last week's post) and moving more confidently in the Lord's plans for me.
God bless you this week!
Jim McGreevey
Monday, September 11, 2006
Quick update before work
Well friends, I've been busy these last few weeks: homework (!), classes, work and traveling to San Antonio. Some of the last couple weeks are shown in photos (this weekend's bears game for instance) and some are on the flickr badge to the right.
Yesterday I was pretty sad. Not sure why exactly. It was a blessing, then to speak with my dear friend Sue and have her let me cry a little while we spoke and to have her pray for me. I remembered that it took me a year before I felt "in my own skin" in Greenville. I've had less sad days here, friends, than when I moved to Greenville. I had less people in the same boat when I moved there; here there are many who have recently been transplanted by God. But the sad that I felt yesterday lingers a little still.
This morning I am headed to work. I'll email some students from my youth ministry team (more info on that to come), meet with my boss, Don, and attend chapel at 11am. After chapel, Lyndsy and I will have lunch (I have to go make mine right now, actually!) and then we'll head to class with Dr. Cloud. Its a class about the effect of college on students. Pretty interesting, actually.
Tonight Sarah and I are having a new friend from the Quad over for dinner: Jessica. We met her at the community fellowship and both liked her instantly. Then my youth ministry team is coming over for a meeting before we go out on our first trip this Wednesday.
Then its hopefully to bed. Last night I didn't go to sleep until after 1am. Its so unusual that I needed to mention it. I think it was because I was feeling sort of icky yesterday and so I had some coffee at 4pm. Darn that fair trade regular caffeine coffee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Make it a great day, friends. More news to come (like the results of the football games from this weekend - at least the ones I cared about).
Love you!
Yesterday I was pretty sad. Not sure why exactly. It was a blessing, then to speak with my dear friend Sue and have her let me cry a little while we spoke and to have her pray for me. I remembered that it took me a year before I felt "in my own skin" in Greenville. I've had less sad days here, friends, than when I moved to Greenville. I had less people in the same boat when I moved there; here there are many who have recently been transplanted by God. But the sad that I felt yesterday lingers a little still.
This morning I am headed to work. I'll email some students from my youth ministry team (more info on that to come), meet with my boss, Don, and attend chapel at 11am. After chapel, Lyndsy and I will have lunch (I have to go make mine right now, actually!) and then we'll head to class with Dr. Cloud. Its a class about the effect of college on students. Pretty interesting, actually.
Tonight Sarah and I are having a new friend from the Quad over for dinner: Jessica. We met her at the community fellowship and both liked her instantly. Then my youth ministry team is coming over for a meeting before we go out on our first trip this Wednesday.
Then its hopefully to bed. Last night I didn't go to sleep until after 1am. Its so unusual that I needed to mention it. I think it was because I was feeling sort of icky yesterday and so I had some coffee at 4pm. Darn that fair trade regular caffeine coffee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Make it a great day, friends. More news to come (like the results of the football games from this weekend - at least the ones I cared about).
Love you!
Pics from my first Baylor Football Game!!
L to R: Candice and Collin Bullard, Lyndsy, Jonathan
L to R: me, candice, collin, lyns
the "claw"......
Bailey, a yell leader and one of the chaplains that I'm working with.
The big screen!Hey y'all! Here are some pics from my first Baylor Football Experience!!!! Sic'Em! oh, and see the video in the next post to get a feel for what its like in the stands at kickoff.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Sic'Em Bears (TR)
| My first experience with Baylor Football - here's a taste of what its like to be in the crowd at kick-off. This is during the second Baylor home game of the 2006 season, where the Bears bested Northwestern State, 47-10. | |
Monday, September 04, 2006
Coach Banks
for all y'all who are a part of Greenville College football - here are few "game day" pics of Banks... you'll notice shorter hair and looking more "official" (i.e. no visor).
But you'll also notice the same facial expressions and intensity. p.s. he's already starting to lose his voice... we could hear him shouting at one point from our place in the stands (nothing bad, just loud).
Pics - new, at Flickr
Hi friends,
I know its been a bit since I've really updated. I have a lot of reading and am really trying to be a diligent college student and graduate assistant. In the meantime, this weekend I traipsed down to San Antonio with my roommate Sarah to relax and study at the Fergs, and to see ETBU play Trinity (Coach Banks, former GC FB coach is now the Def. Coor at ETBU). It was great to see Dave - I had lunch with him and the team at the Hilton in Waco on Friday afternoon, between my class and work, and then the game was fun - though they lost and that part was pretty bad. Anyway, as always its great to see Banksie in person. For those of you who asked me to tell him, "Hello"... I did.
Anyway, I read a lot this weekend, and have still more to read and write this week. So in the meantime, as I try to get emails and blog updates out to all of you whom I love, and as I try to be present in life here..... see the pics to the right... I think you'll enjoy.
Love, Tiff
I know its been a bit since I've really updated. I have a lot of reading and am really trying to be a diligent college student and graduate assistant. In the meantime, this weekend I traipsed down to San Antonio with my roommate Sarah to relax and study at the Fergs, and to see ETBU play Trinity (Coach Banks, former GC FB coach is now the Def. Coor at ETBU). It was great to see Dave - I had lunch with him and the team at the Hilton in Waco on Friday afternoon, between my class and work, and then the game was fun - though they lost and that part was pretty bad. Anyway, as always its great to see Banksie in person. For those of you who asked me to tell him, "Hello"... I did.
Anyway, I read a lot this weekend, and have still more to read and write this week. So in the meantime, as I try to get emails and blog updates out to all of you whom I love, and as I try to be present in life here..... see the pics to the right... I think you'll enjoy.
Love, Tiff
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