I took my team from Emmanuel Baptist Church on a Prayer Walk in the International Village this morning. We had a terrific time at Asian Square, Ngozi Tropical Foods and Carneceria Hispana #1. We saw most of the planet in a couple of hours!
We had Easter Outreach events at Azalea, Northchase and Highland Gardens. We presented the Gospel to over 100 kids!
I was hoping to get the last of the supplies for the Outreach this weekend, specifically the balloons and face paint stuff I ordered last week. I’ll have to go back into Doraville to check on it again tomorrow. If it’s not at the church, I’ll have to go to Plan B.
Kathy and I watched Little Miss Sunshine tonight. I liked it.
My team from Emmanuel Baptist Church did a great job today in Clarkston, Chamblee and Doraville! There was a heavy storm in Clarkston last night and they went to help clean up the neighborhood. They also held Backyard Bible Clubs at Azalea, Northchase and Highland Gardens. Tomorrow we’ll have Easter Outreach Events at those three locations.
Had a meeting with a potential Eagle Scout from Perimeter. Ryan is organizing a Health Fair that will be held at Northchase probably right after school starts. Paul Reynolds is the pastor of that location and has been a great help with getting this put together. It was also good to see Jean Murphy who is one of my long term partners and a health care specialist.
Went to see my partners at Pure Fun. Todd Harrison has been so generous with his support of our ministry. They are providing all the drinks and cookies for the outreach at Kensington Station on April 7th.
Also checked in with friends at Crossroads church in Lawrenceville. Norwood was out of town but I enjoyed seeing Karen Klett. She has been an enormous aid in getting their church mobilized into the community.
Today I got notification that I have a subscriber to my YouTube videos from Iran! What do you think about that? I guess even Iran could use a little Mr. Tim.
The team from Blackshear, GA started working today. Their church is about 4 hours from Atlanta–right on the border with Florida.
They completely cleaned out the mission at Springchase. The place looked great. Sad to move. Latest dumb stuff the manager did was to take the hoops off the basketball goals! Man, the kids were really upset with that. No telling what kind of bad feelings that is going to cause. Expect windows broken! Stupid decision.
Another part of the team worked at Azalea, cleaning the mission, organizing the books and leading a Bible Club. My kids really enjoyed it!
The third team helped my friend Pat Maddox with their first day of the Thrift Store being opened. They did a terrific job of cleaning the place, decorating for Easter and organizing the clothes. That clothes ministry is SO labor intensive! I have no calling to get into it.
We also had a Backyard Bible Club at Highland Gardens. Had some gang younsters over there. Looked like LRZ types. They’re nice to me, but I still don’t trust them.
Had a letter from a supporter upset with my take on the illegal alien issue. Some people really believe that these poor folks coming here to work and support their families are somehow going to take down the American way of life.
White people drive me crazy.
Caught up with my admin work. It’s already after midnight.
Peace.
April 02, 2007
Ashley is on Spring Break so I had the pleasure of her company with me today!
We went to visit with Pastor Tito Ruiz at Sugarloaf Community Church. Tito is a brother to me and plays keys in our outreach band: Cruz. We set up work at Gwinnett Crossing this morning. Kim Le is a good friend of mine. She’s the manager and we’ve worked together in complexes in Norcross and in Clarkston. Looks good!
I then took Tito over to Northchase where we met with my partner Paul Reynolds. He’s also a pastor doing a church plant in the area. Tito and Paul did some counseling with a family while Ashley and I went to eat Indian Food at Annapurna.
After lunch, I took Tito back to his church and then Ash and I went out to the Mall of Georgia for a marathon shopping spree. I really miss hanging out with her and it was real blesing to shop till I dropped.
Got home and my internet wasn’t working so the admin work didn’t get done. Bahd luck.
I spoke at Peachtree Corners Baptist Church this morning, specifically to the 4th grade Sunday School class. I spoke to the whole youth group in January. This particular class had collected school supplies for the missions. I went over there to meet with them and pick up the stuff. My neice Sarah Doverspike was in that class–it was great to see her!
I spent a little while at the bookstore before I came home. Did more research on marketing and the internet. Our ministry normally comes up in the top 3 spots on Google for Apartment Ministry–so I guess the words is getting out. One of the books I purchased was on Search Engine Optimization. Can’t go too much higher than #3.
I came home and checked up on my mother in law. She’s doing better today. Her son Bill and his girlfriend Deborah come over on Sundays to take her out for lunch. That frees Kathy and I to go hang out together. Normally we do some sort of exercise. It was kind of rainy so we went to the Stone Mountain graveyard and walked around for awhile. I took some cool pix there including one where a tree had grown around a grave stone! Another where the man buried was with the KKK! Ay caramba! Click on Photo Gallery and see the featured gallery for the graveyard.
J and I are working on another video project for our Team Info page. Nothing ever seems simple. Always some kind of compression or transfer of format issue. We’ll figure it out. We always do.
