There will be more of an update to come later today, but I have to work all day today and so it will be later this morning.
For now, here are the verses I am currently memorizing. I am enjoying it because as I memorize it, I think of all the people who I am praying these verses for, and I also remember that someone is praying the spirit of them for me!
Philippians 1:1-11
Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I thank my God everytime I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy, because of your partnership in the Gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this: that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion in the day of Christ Jesus.
It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart, for whether I am in chains or defending or confirming the Gospel, all of you share in God's grace with me. God can testify how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Blessings dear friends!
p.s. If anyone wants to work on memorizing these verses with me and one of my chaplains, I would encourage you to DO IT!!! We are working on Philippians 1 and 2, but are really just getting started.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Wednesday update: from the library
I'm sitting here with my pal, Candice. We are about to start intense work on our term papers for Dr. Shushok's Cultures and Orgs in Higher Education class... at least that's what we say. In reality, I'm updating my blog and she's on facebook. But we are typing so that "looks" good and we have books and paper and in my case, coffee mugs out, so we really DO look like we're working.
Well, Candice is one of the wednesday update readers (even though I see her multiple times per week :)...) and last week she got on me about not updating so I feel OK about taking some study time to write this week's post.
First of all, the little cold that I got right before leaving for Greenville two weeks ago is still visiting. While I'm not against visitors, I'm not really enjoying the the friends (coughing, etc) that came with the cold. :) But yesterday I realized that if I stay really still and don't talk that I cough less... and by the end of the day I felt a lot better. I feel still better today, though occasionally coughing does indeed happen.
My trip to Greenville was great and so full of fun and good times. I hope to write about it later this morning on a study break. I got back and was in full force and somewhat survival mode!
Hmmm... updates. OK.
Did I mention that I'm going to KENYA?! May 13-28, I'm leading a team who will be doing "general ministry" in the city of Nairobi. There are multiple teams going on this trip, most are "discipline specific" (i.e. they are all from the engineering department) and a couple are "group specific" (i.e. there is a group of women going from a residence hall). My group will be comprised of people who don't fit into those other categories. We are expecting to come alongside a church that University Ministries has worked with before in Nairobi, to partner with the ministries in the city that they are already doing. We'll just be extra hands and feet.
I'm pretty excited. I don't know that I ever thought I would get to go to Africa, though I guess I hoped. But WOOHOO! I have my first interest meeting tomorrow at 4pm at my office.
And I almost forgot that last weekend was "Fall Parties" - for the Panhellenic Sororities on campus. Some of you may not know or remember that I joined Alpha Delta Pi when I went to Northern Arizona University. It was a great experience and actually, it was how I came to faith in Jesus (my delta diamond sister was a Christian and helped expose me to Christ). I've been wanting to work with sororities and fraternities again for a number of years and now I get a double blessing! I work with Chaplains of fraternities and sororities by day, and I advise ADPi by night (well, all those activities kind of overlap day and night actually).
So Fall Parties is the first part of Baylor's recruitment. They have "Delayed Recruitment" which means that "Rush" doesn't happen until January. In the fall semester, each woman who is signed up to go through rush in the spring gets a chance to visit all the sorority houses (in this case, chapter rooms) and hear a presentation by the sorority and meet some members. I think this weekend was a HUGE success for our ADPi chapter. I was impressed with how they carried themselves, their discussion and their hard work. However, we won't know the impact of this weekend until January.
It was exhausting, however, to be a part of this weekend - especially when sick. I stood on my feet in heels for lots of hours and ended up losing my voice, mostly. But it was VERY VERY fun to spend that time with the women. I really do enjoy them and am glad to count them as my sisters.
On Sunday I was part of my first "Advisory Board" meeting - it was a long one, preparing for the upcoming chapter elections. We interviewed a number of women who were applying for positions and again I was VERY impressed with how they presented themselves and their preparation for the interviews. Those who interviewed (if they are reading this) should be proud.
My last thing for right now: Operation Christmas Child. The project has gone well so far. We have a LOT of boxes, though I don't know if we have our goal of 2,500 boxes... On Friday our group will meet again to take the boxes to the drop-off location and then the project will be done for another year. Candice and I are very pleased with the work our committees did this year and we are already planning for an even BETTER year, next year.
Make it a great morning, friends. Philippians 1:3.
Well, Candice is one of the wednesday update readers (even though I see her multiple times per week :)...) and last week she got on me about not updating so I feel OK about taking some study time to write this week's post.
First of all, the little cold that I got right before leaving for Greenville two weeks ago is still visiting. While I'm not against visitors, I'm not really enjoying the the friends (coughing, etc) that came with the cold. :) But yesterday I realized that if I stay really still and don't talk that I cough less... and by the end of the day I felt a lot better. I feel still better today, though occasionally coughing does indeed happen.
My trip to Greenville was great and so full of fun and good times. I hope to write about it later this morning on a study break. I got back and was in full force and somewhat survival mode!
Hmmm... updates. OK.
Did I mention that I'm going to KENYA?! May 13-28, I'm leading a team who will be doing "general ministry" in the city of Nairobi. There are multiple teams going on this trip, most are "discipline specific" (i.e. they are all from the engineering department) and a couple are "group specific" (i.e. there is a group of women going from a residence hall). My group will be comprised of people who don't fit into those other categories. We are expecting to come alongside a church that University Ministries has worked with before in Nairobi, to partner with the ministries in the city that they are already doing. We'll just be extra hands and feet.
I'm pretty excited. I don't know that I ever thought I would get to go to Africa, though I guess I hoped. But WOOHOO! I have my first interest meeting tomorrow at 4pm at my office.
And I almost forgot that last weekend was "Fall Parties" - for the Panhellenic Sororities on campus. Some of you may not know or remember that I joined Alpha Delta Pi when I went to Northern Arizona University. It was a great experience and actually, it was how I came to faith in Jesus (my delta diamond sister was a Christian and helped expose me to Christ). I've been wanting to work with sororities and fraternities again for a number of years and now I get a double blessing! I work with Chaplains of fraternities and sororities by day, and I advise ADPi by night (well, all those activities kind of overlap day and night actually).
So Fall Parties is the first part of Baylor's recruitment. They have "Delayed Recruitment" which means that "Rush" doesn't happen until January. In the fall semester, each woman who is signed up to go through rush in the spring gets a chance to visit all the sorority houses (in this case, chapter rooms) and hear a presentation by the sorority and meet some members. I think this weekend was a HUGE success for our ADPi chapter. I was impressed with how they carried themselves, their discussion and their hard work. However, we won't know the impact of this weekend until January.
It was exhausting, however, to be a part of this weekend - especially when sick. I stood on my feet in heels for lots of hours and ended up losing my voice, mostly. But it was VERY VERY fun to spend that time with the women. I really do enjoy them and am glad to count them as my sisters.
On Sunday I was part of my first "Advisory Board" meeting - it was a long one, preparing for the upcoming chapter elections. We interviewed a number of women who were applying for positions and again I was VERY impressed with how they presented themselves and their preparation for the interviews. Those who interviewed (if they are reading this) should be proud.
My last thing for right now: Operation Christmas Child. The project has gone well so far. We have a LOT of boxes, though I don't know if we have our goal of 2,500 boxes... On Friday our group will meet again to take the boxes to the drop-off location and then the project will be done for another year. Candice and I are very pleased with the work our committees did this year and we are already planning for an even BETTER year, next year.
Make it a great morning, friends. Philippians 1:3.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
late (and brief) update
To all my faithful friends and family who noticed that I did not put up a Wed update this week: thanks for noticing and I'm sorry.
This update will not suffice, though it will include some bullet points that may be of interest to you:
* trip to Greenville was great, saw lots of people, was sleep deprived but relationally full. I love the people there. It really does feel like home. Thanks g-villers for the great welcome back.
* still sick. thought i was getting better, but it was a long (Looooong) week with another upcoming and its hard to shake the last dregs of this cold.
* sorority recruitment this last weekend. it was one of my first "real" moments as an advisor (for ADPi) and it was really fun - i got to meet women, encourage others and also get really sore feet, and really tired everything else.
* today I got to help with election preparation for the election of new ADPi officers for next year, very interesting to be behind the scenes as an alum/advisor.
* amazing race - as always... was amazing.
* operation christmas child is great, too - God is faithful and boxes are coming in. I'm not sure we'll make it to 2500, but we'll get a lot.
* had two chaplain's gatherings this week - they were really good and I think those who participated were blessed.
* found out I'm going to Kenya in May of 2007, leading a team of college students. wow.
* my parents were in LA this weekend with two of my aunts and they saw Annette Bening getting her star on the walk of fame. I think that's pretty neat.
* then they went to Laughlin, NV and surprised my grandparents in the casino (my grandpa on Sat. pm at his favorite Keno machine and my grandma the next morning at brunch). I think that's pretty neat too.
I hope you are seeing God's glory and power in your lives. I hope even more that you are seeing his mercy and grace.
I have lots of big papers due in the upcoming weeks, so I will try to update more during study breaks.
In the meantime, as they say: Via con Dios.
Love, Tiff
This update will not suffice, though it will include some bullet points that may be of interest to you:
* trip to Greenville was great, saw lots of people, was sleep deprived but relationally full. I love the people there. It really does feel like home. Thanks g-villers for the great welcome back.
* still sick. thought i was getting better, but it was a long (Looooong) week with another upcoming and its hard to shake the last dregs of this cold.
* sorority recruitment this last weekend. it was one of my first "real" moments as an advisor (for ADPi) and it was really fun - i got to meet women, encourage others and also get really sore feet, and really tired everything else.
* today I got to help with election preparation for the election of new ADPi officers for next year, very interesting to be behind the scenes as an alum/advisor.
* amazing race - as always... was amazing.
* operation christmas child is great, too - God is faithful and boxes are coming in. I'm not sure we'll make it to 2500, but we'll get a lot.
* had two chaplain's gatherings this week - they were really good and I think those who participated were blessed.
* found out I'm going to Kenya in May of 2007, leading a team of college students. wow.
* my parents were in LA this weekend with two of my aunts and they saw Annette Bening getting her star on the walk of fame. I think that's pretty neat.
* then they went to Laughlin, NV and surprised my grandparents in the casino (my grandpa on Sat. pm at his favorite Keno machine and my grandma the next morning at brunch). I think that's pretty neat too.
I hope you are seeing God's glory and power in your lives. I hope even more that you are seeing his mercy and grace.
I have lots of big papers due in the upcoming weeks, so I will try to update more during study breaks.
In the meantime, as they say: Via con Dios.
Love, Tiff
Friday, November 03, 2006
GVILLE!
Well last night I attended the Chi Omega Chili Cookoff. The "Rajun Cajun" chili I put together didn't win a prize... I like to think it came in 4th - since they didn't announce 4th place. :)
I'm packed up and ready to attend class and then head to Dallas Love to catch my flight up to Greenville. WOOHOO~~!
I'm feeling a little healthier, but figure that I'll have a cold all weekend and I'll just have to live with it.
I am SO excited to see my girls tonight at Pokey, and tomorrow - the guys, who I've watched grow up, in their last home football game!
Prayers for safe travel, peaceful hearts and meaningful times!
I'm packed up and ready to attend class and then head to Dallas Love to catch my flight up to Greenville. WOOHOO~~!
I'm feeling a little healthier, but figure that I'll have a cold all weekend and I'll just have to live with it.
I am SO excited to see my girls tonight at Pokey, and tomorrow - the guys, who I've watched grow up, in their last home football game!
Prayers for safe travel, peaceful hearts and meaningful times!
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
November 1st already?
I realized this afternoon, in the middle of trying to get caught up on some work and class reading... that it was Wednesday and I hadn't posted an update. It is helpful to me to think of Wednesdays (for this semester at least) as my "update day." - at least I'm updating way more frequently than I did in G-ville.
Speaking of G-ville, my biggest update is that I'm going to be there in 2 days. Just over 48 hours, actually! (ok, 52.5 to be exact) WOOHOO! I love Waco, I love being in Texas and I am loving making new friends here, but I'm also really excited to be in Greenville for a weekend!
Here are my plans:
Friday - ride to Pokey with Jenn (she's picking me up) and have dessert night with softball and bible study girls for a couple hours! I'm excited for a gab fest with these wonderful women Friday night. I'm staying over at the Hehman's that evening.
Saturday - get up and have a chat with Maura and then spend time with Liz and baby Mac (matthew...) before heading to the field. This week is the third annual "Souper" Tailgate and I'm thrilled to see the EPAPP parents and to have Wise family Gumbo (i'm more excited to see the wise's than for the gumbo, even!). After the tailgate its Senior day festivities, and then the Panthers take on the Concordia River Forest Cougars. Then a post-game time - hopefully its not too cold. And on to a fun evening with the coaching staff and their families at the Hehman's. That evening I'm staying over with Laura and Andy, so we'll cut out at some point and get a chance to catch up before falling asleep.
Sunday - woohoo for Greenville FMC! I'm so excited to hear Doug speak on Sunday that I don't even mind missing Crowder band at my church in Waco. Though I am sad to miss them, i really enjoy the way they lead the church into worship. Anyway, Church - woohoo, and my old sunday school class. I promised Sue that I would sit behind her in the sanctuary like the old days. :) After church Heather and I are getting caught up over some GOOD COKE! yep - rancho nuevo style. Then I'm going to spend some time praying and catching up with Sue and afterward head over to the Filby's for the evening. I'm excited to see them and chat and be there for their college ministry time - yay! I'm staying over there that evening and Sue (bless her heart) is picking me up at 4:30-or so AM on...
Monday - after a nice drive with Sue to the airport, then I'll be flying back to Dallas and driving back to Waco. Hopefully (though not likely) in time for the 11am chapel, but for sure class at 1pm.
Phew. What a time.
If you are the praying type, as you read this note, you can see how busy this weekend will be. Please pray that I would be able to get my homework done in advance and on the plane, that I would be at peace all weekend and that this cold would be gone by Friday. :)
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OK, in the meantime... lots going on here. We started collecting shoeboxes for operation christmas child today on campus. Its one of the events that I'm coordinating, and i have a great team of students who are really running the show. thats been really fun. Tonight I am going to the ADPi chapter room to help them put on a whole "fall party" - or a few of them. They are just practices, recruitment begins next Friday. That will take me until about 8 or 8:30... then I'm heading home to work on making a giant pot of chili for the university ministries entry into the Chi Omega Chili Cook-Off. The only time I can make it is tonight.... and it has to simmer for "a few hours" so I'll be up till midnight with my friend Marquette, working on it.
Tomorrow (thursday) is just as busy. I have meetings all during the day, and then the chili-cook off itself from 7-9. And at some point I need to pack my stuff for Greenville.
Thankfully, I love being busy (I do) and I've paid all my bills (I think I have at least) and my car works again (new battery). Even though I may feel a little under the weather... its OK.
Thats the update from action central. More to come following the visit!
Speaking of G-ville, my biggest update is that I'm going to be there in 2 days. Just over 48 hours, actually! (ok, 52.5 to be exact) WOOHOO! I love Waco, I love being in Texas and I am loving making new friends here, but I'm also really excited to be in Greenville for a weekend!
Here are my plans:
Friday - ride to Pokey with Jenn (she's picking me up) and have dessert night with softball and bible study girls for a couple hours! I'm excited for a gab fest with these wonderful women Friday night. I'm staying over at the Hehman's that evening.
Saturday - get up and have a chat with Maura and then spend time with Liz and baby Mac (matthew...) before heading to the field. This week is the third annual "Souper" Tailgate and I'm thrilled to see the EPAPP parents and to have Wise family Gumbo (i'm more excited to see the wise's than for the gumbo, even!). After the tailgate its Senior day festivities, and then the Panthers take on the Concordia River Forest Cougars. Then a post-game time - hopefully its not too cold. And on to a fun evening with the coaching staff and their families at the Hehman's. That evening I'm staying over with Laura and Andy, so we'll cut out at some point and get a chance to catch up before falling asleep.
Sunday - woohoo for Greenville FMC! I'm so excited to hear Doug speak on Sunday that I don't even mind missing Crowder band at my church in Waco. Though I am sad to miss them, i really enjoy the way they lead the church into worship. Anyway, Church - woohoo, and my old sunday school class. I promised Sue that I would sit behind her in the sanctuary like the old days. :) After church Heather and I are getting caught up over some GOOD COKE! yep - rancho nuevo style. Then I'm going to spend some time praying and catching up with Sue and afterward head over to the Filby's for the evening. I'm excited to see them and chat and be there for their college ministry time - yay! I'm staying over there that evening and Sue (bless her heart) is picking me up at 4:30-or so AM on...
Monday - after a nice drive with Sue to the airport, then I'll be flying back to Dallas and driving back to Waco. Hopefully (though not likely) in time for the 11am chapel, but for sure class at 1pm.
Phew. What a time.
If you are the praying type, as you read this note, you can see how busy this weekend will be. Please pray that I would be able to get my homework done in advance and on the plane, that I would be at peace all weekend and that this cold would be gone by Friday. :)
___
OK, in the meantime... lots going on here. We started collecting shoeboxes for operation christmas child today on campus. Its one of the events that I'm coordinating, and i have a great team of students who are really running the show. thats been really fun. Tonight I am going to the ADPi chapter room to help them put on a whole "fall party" - or a few of them. They are just practices, recruitment begins next Friday. That will take me until about 8 or 8:30... then I'm heading home to work on making a giant pot of chili for the university ministries entry into the Chi Omega Chili Cook-Off. The only time I can make it is tonight.... and it has to simmer for "a few hours" so I'll be up till midnight with my friend Marquette, working on it.
Tomorrow (thursday) is just as busy. I have meetings all during the day, and then the chili-cook off itself from 7-9. And at some point I need to pack my stuff for Greenville.
Thankfully, I love being busy (I do) and I've paid all my bills (I think I have at least) and my car works again (new battery). Even though I may feel a little under the weather... its OK.
Thats the update from action central. More to come following the visit!
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