Had a fun time with some of my favorite partners today!

Jesse and I went to First Baptist Atlanta to meet with my partner Derrick Posten.  He’s really suffering with back problems.  Looks like he’s going to have to have surgery soon.  Pray for him!

I wanted Derrick to meet another one of my best buddies, Carlos Salaverria.  Carlos is extremely talented and brings a wealth of experience to our team here in Atlanta.  He’s another of our North American Mission Board missionaries.  His task is to work with our Hispanic churches to get them more involved with the community!

About three weeks ago First Baptist hosted the Easter Impact Atlanta where they mobilized 170 people in 15 different complexes around the metroplex.  The great news was that over 124 people accepted Christ!

The hardest part is to get those people discipled and then into a local church.  That has traditionally been the hardest part of our job.  Carlos and Derrick and I are trying to eliminate that gap in the process.  Carlos is working on a dicipliship course that I think is going to work out great!  We’ll plan on mobilizing the teams from Impact Atlanta to be our follow up leaders.  With backup from the local Latino churches, I think this is a plan that can really work.  But it won’t be easy!  We really need your prayer support as we roll this new strategy out!

After FBA, Jesse and I went to Perimeter church.  These two churches are my two favorite partners out of the whole city.  So I was doubly blessed!  I talked with my partners Debra Potter, Jackie Deiter and Chip Sweeney about our Compassion In Action outreach in the Fall. I’m really looking forward to some exciting partnerships!

From Perimeter J and I went to check the mail at my office at First Baptist Doraville then to Azalea Mission.  We had fun with the kids there.  I had a little gift for Clinton that he swore he’d share with the other kids.  It was a DVD set of the animated show Naruto.  They were SO excited about it!

Then we tried to start the car.  Nothing.  Clicking sounds. . . then nothing.  We go the cables out and tried to jump it off.  Clicking and nothing.  So I finally called AAA to bring over the tow truck.  All my cars have over 100,000 miles so I’m a big believer in AAA! 

After about a 30 minute wait the driver hooked us up and took my car back to my mechanic in Stone Mountain.  Hopefully, it won’t be too expensive!

Ashley’s been working on an art project with paper mache! Groovy!

C’est la vie, baby!