Egypt!

Hello everyone!

Just wanted to let you in on a little something I haven't shared yet :)

In May I am going on a missions trip to Egypt! Jeremy and I are coordinating the trip with my mom and fellow APU students. There are 6 of us going and we are so excited to enter a new land and share the love of Christ!

You may ask, why Egypt? Originally the team was going to go to China. But since those plans were not working out the way we wanted, we decided to take a new direction and pursue helping along side family friends Pastor Gamal and Moni Hannah in their church and ministries in Tema, Egypt!

We will be leaving the 9th of May and flying into Cairo. Here we will be lucky enough to do some of the tourist things such as seeing the pyramids, going to the bazaar, and seeing the Nile! After that we will be taking a train ride down to southern Egypt into Tema where we will be spending a majority of our time and living along side Pastor Gamal and his family. We will arrive back in the states on May 27th.

In terms of safety being American Christians we are assured that this will be a safe trip and will have Christian Egyptian translators who act as our guides. We are not expecting any issues with safety.

God is Good and ALIVE in Egypt! It is 90% Muslim and we can not wait to share the love of Christ through our kind words and actions and bring hope and quench the thirst of dry souls! Friends, God is also alive in the states and people are just as thirsty for the savior.

The question is, do we care enough to share the greatest thing we know?

We are excited to stretch ourselves and learn new things with the Egyptian culture!

More to come on our fundraising, group pics, and more exciting news!

With love from my apartment,

Paige

Finals are a comin'!

Hello Family & Friends!

Thought I'd check in and say hello with you all and give another update!

Sickness: This last week I have been sick and after two doctor's visits I think I'm better!! Basically the sickness needed to pass, which it is still doing, and I got some meds for some stomach issues I have had this year.

School: Almost done! After tonight's presentation, this week's work is pretty much done and it will all turn into studying for finals/writing papers for finals week.

And when am I supposed to do Christmas shopping!?

Life is good though. God is still God. I'm still kickin'. Being blessed in many ways. Can't WAIT to be home!!! (If you haven't been able to tell) :)

With love from my LAST Church History class E.V.E.R!

There IS justice in this world! ;)

-Paige

Dear Blog Readers,

I am going crazy. Not actually, so no one worry. But this semester is sooooo over in my mind and I still have to gear up for big papers and finals to come.

I don't know how that will happen. I am ready for December 19th- Disneyland with Barbie! I'm ready for Christmas shopping and Denver convention and New Years Eve... I'm ready to see those babies! They're growing up and are the cutest things in the world! I want to give them kisses and sneak them candy and be a fun auntie!

Evie wearing my mom's boots:

Chet ready for some Nebraska football!!!

I guess it will come soon enough. 2 weeks. :)

Even though I'm kinda going crazy- I still had the greatest and most relaxing Thanksgiving with the Aarons!!!! We went to the Mojave desert and camped out in their motor home! So. much. fun! Mrs. Aaron treated us to the most delicious food and Traci supplied great desserts! Jeremy taught me how to ride a quad and I got to go on a few group rides once I got the hang of it! Here are a few pics from our time:

My transformer:)

Me and Jeremy before a ride:

The kids:

Gooooooood morning!

Everyone made fun of my and Jeremy's outfits. In our defense, we weren't expecting a picture to be taken.

Our quad/motorcycle ride! I'm on the far left with Jeremy standing next to me. So fun!

Below: Traci, Josh, Jeremy, Myself, Mrs. Aaron, Liz, Mr.Aaron

Boys packing up the motor home before we headed out!

With love from my second to last Church History class! WOOOOO HOOOOO!!!!!!

Paigey

Arizona Weekend & Internship

Hola familia y amigos!

I had a wonderful weekend in Prescott, Arizona with Holly and Kalie! It was so great being in a cold town because hearing Christmas music in LA just doesn't feel right! Here are a few pics from our time :)

An exciting thing is that I received an Internship position with the Governance department with World Vision International!!

World Vision International is a Christian non-profit organization that helps people in need, such as sponsoring Children around the world, disaster relief, etc. etc. and through all of this sharing the love of Christ!

I will be working with Governance, which is the department that assesses and evaluates each World Vision office around the world. The department will go into an office and see how it is lining up with the missions statement, how successful it is, etc. I will be organizing this information, doing administrative/data work, marketing, budget reconciliation, and other projects like that. I start in January and have my first formal meeting next Wednesday.

Tonight I go to the Aarons and tomorrow (Wednesday) we leave for the desert! I'll be out of communication until Sunday.

Have to pay attention to class!

With love from Church History,

Paige

Almost Thanksgiving!!!

Ah I'm sooo excited for Thanksgiving break with the Aarons!! But before that I get to go to Arizona this weekend with my friend Holly to see our friend Kalie!!

Saturday after a busy busy day I headed out with Jeremy's roommates and some friends to the beach! They made a great bonfire and we ate hotdogs and smores!! Yummm!!!

Below: Tatiana, Saleena, Josh and Simi

Below: Kyle(Bo), Dave, Lorna, Jeremy

Below: Micah, Catherine, Holly, Nick

Me and Cath!! She's transferring at semester and going back to Oregon :( Yey for her but sad for us!

(: Me and Jeremy :)

Thursday night a bunch of us from South Africa got together at Kari's house and hung out! It was so great to be with some of the group again! :) Here are some of the girls:

Friday night Corinne (right) and I went out for Britainne, a girl in my discipleship group's birthday! We went to Old Spaghetti Factory and it was sooo good :)

So this weekend I'm going to Arizona and next Wednesday I leave for the desert with the Aaron family! Oh yeah, and I have homework :) We will see where that fits in!

With love from Interpersonal Communication,

Paige

It's the most wonderful time of the year...

Well it's ALMOST that time! For now I still have papers, tests, deadlines, etc! But I'm surviving and doing well :)

Luckily Jeremy is well and no longer has the Swine Flu! It was sad he had to be quarantined for a week at home and it was soooo good when he came back to APU! We had a pretty relaxing weekend and got to spend some time together, watch some movies, and just not be distracted by homework! Unfortunately, he is having the busiest week ever since he was out for a week. I'm ready for this semester to be OVER and us to have "normal" lives!

Here are some fun upcoming events:

-A week and a half: Thanksgiving Break! Going to the desert with the Aaron family! Excited about that!!!

-Three weeks after that the semester is over!!!!

-Dec 19 Barbie and I go to Disneyland for her BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!

-Dec 20 we drive back to Sac!

-Dec 25 Christmas!

-Dec 26-31 Youth Convention in Denver, CO. Jeremy is coming! Mom, Brooke and I are speaking in two seminars to the girls. Woo hoo!

-January 12- First day of school for 2nd semester!

And that's my life for the next two months! I'm sure there will be plenty of things to report on in between :)

With love once again from Church History,

Paige

November already!

Hello everyone!!

I am on the downhill of this semester! Praise the LORD! I'm ready to be done with this busy semester's work. Although as I approach my graduation (next December) I start slowing down and really hoping to continue to develop and deepen relationships. I have friends getting married, getting engaged, transferring schools, and it reminds me how little time we will all have in the same city!

This last weekend I had the joy of going home for Dad's birthday! It was great to be with the family, hang out with Grandma Dean (Dad's mom) who flew in for the week, and be with the kids during Halloween! :) They are so CUTE!!!! I couldn't get enough time with them. The first night Nate, Stacey and their girls, minus Mati, stopped by!

Below is Dad, Evie and Taylor made cookie dough together :) So precious!

Evie is continuing to grow, learn and becoming a little entertainer! We had a big family party for Dad's birthday and at the end of Mom's prayer she shouted out "AMEN!" like she was in a gospel church! We all got a kick out of that!

Here's her Halloween outfit as a '50s girl!

Chet is just so cute! I would describe his personality like he is just always waiting for someone to look at him and smile :) He is just so HAPPY and joyful and can't wait to make eye contact and show you that big dimple he has! :)

Here's Josh and Chet as a hotdog! Oh my gosh he was sooo cute!!! (If you recognize this, yes Evie wore this outfit two years ago:))

Halloween night we went over to the Odgers house and had a great dinner and experienced Evie trick-or-treating for the first time. She was so much fun! She would take your hand and RUN to the next house pointing and shouting "Light! Light!" because she knew the houses with lights would have candy! She didn't really end up saying "Trick or Treat" but man did she love her treats!

The kids before they went out:

The next day, Sunday, we celebrated Dad's birthday with a family party! I got to hold Hailey, Matt & Ashley's daughter who is two weeks old, for the first time. She is so beaaaaaautiful! Love her! You can see Evie likes her too :)

Here is our family photo! I love my family :) And we have three babies under 6 months! Repopulating the Jennings name!

Left: Nathan, Stacey, Mati, and baby Taryn. (daughter Taylor is sitting down by Evie)

Middle: Matt & Ashley with new baby Haily; Robb

Right: Brooke, Josh, Chet, (Evie on Mom's lap)

Bottom: Half of Sadie, Grandma Dean, Barbie, Me, Dad holding Taylor, Mom holding Evie

(can click for a larger view)

For Dad's birthday a bunch of people chipped in to get him tickets to November 27th Nebraska vs. Colorado football game! He will be going with Uncle Randy who lives in Colorado Springs. I made the card you'll see below:

Front:

Pop up inside!

Even though this weekend was amazing, sadly Jeremy got the flu and still has it :( So he has been home and really sick this week. Hopefully his fever has gone down enough so I can see him tonight or tomorrow!

That's about it! Homework. Tests. Essays. Classes. School. Friends. Roommate. Dgroup. Spare time? :)

With love from Church History to 1517 listening to a lecture on Augustine,

(by the way, did you know he was a pastor when he wrote his big works? Interesting fact of the day. See mom, I'm learning! ...Fine I'll get off Facebook...) :)

Paige