Rained about 2 inches.

I met up with Kathy, she and Sugar dog went on ahead.

I had fun shooting my new video camera. I also got my still camera back from Canon. Great images.

I met up with the rest of Kathy’s brothers and sisters at Jason’s Deli. Always great to see those guys!

Studied Spanish this morning. I watch Telemundo soap operas and put the captions on so I can read all the words they’re saying. Great educational tool. Hearing it over and over again. That’s how you get good.

This week the various pieces of gear for my camera came in. This morning I went through it all and stored it properly.

I have a tripod, wide angle lens, shotgun microphone, sport cover, wireless microphone and n/d filters. Still haven’t got the light.

I’m getting all my gear together before I go to Costa Rica.

I”m also thinking of doing some personalized greetings to some of my best supporters. I can record a personal message to them, burn it to a dvd and mail it to them for less than a dollar!

Rainy day today. Nearly 2 inches in my rain gauge.

Jesse and I met up with Ian and Ruthie North and Bayo Otiti for lunch today.

I always enjoy going to Indian food because I get to speak Swahili with the owners who are also from Nairobi!

It was great to hear all the exiting things that area going on in this young couple’s ministry. God is awesome!

We picked up Ashley after her class and she rode with us the rest of the day. YEAH!

Jesse hooked up some other electronics at Huntington Terraces, while Ashley and I did some research for a story she’s writing for the paper.

Later, I met up with Brian Wright. He’s a Pastor of NE Baptist Church. Great guy! I’m looking forward to working with him.

Then over to Azalea to help the kids with their homework. Great to have Ashley with us.

I love these kids.

Working on admin tasks now.

Burn Notice tonight. Oh, yeah.

This morning Jesse and I took a ride out to Alpharetta to visit the North American Mission Board. I met with a group of candidate missionaries. They were a lively group! And good lookin’!

We ran a short errand to visit a colleague of Jesse. J traded this fellow pounds of pure copper pennies for some silver rounds. They look like coins, but they’re not from a country. Cool!

Dropped by my office to check on the mail and my plants. Then over to Huntington Terraces.

Jesse installed the wi-fi system at the mission. Sure am glad he did that! That’s my boy!

Then over to Azalea to help the kids. We stayed to nearly 7pm. Long day!

Then back home to start Phase II of my days: admin work.

I have large teams coming for Spring Break.

Summer stuff starting to ramp up.

Then new missionaries that I’m helping through the process.

It reminds me of something Thomas Jefferson once said, “It’s amazing what can be done if you are always doing.

I thought this looked really weird. Turned out to be a driving bill board. Looks like the wind could blow it over.

I love this merry go round at North Pointe Mall.

This afternoon I met up with my partners Marco Solano, Mark & Cathy Wilson and their daughter Lea.

Of course my wingman Jesse was also with me.

We went to Gwinnett Crossings to talk to the new management about re-establish a mission there. The Wilsons are willing to direct that new work, so I’m looking foward to having it move forward.

The manager was at corporate, but we got to meet the rest of the staff and see the facility where we can have the after school program. Hopefully, we’ll be able to get the program started immediately.

J and I also went to Walmart to pick up supplies for the mission and to my office at FBC Doraville to pick up bills. Jesse is really interested in learning about running a business. So I’m letting him help me write checks, enter into the ledger and track it on a spreadsheet on a computer. Good real world practice.

We went by Azalea to help the kids with their homework.

Some of the little ones are so cute.

They try really hard. Good for them!

I bought my tickets for Costa Rica tonight. Yeah! I’ll leave on April 10, returning on the 24th. My goal is extensive language study and recon for mission trip teams. Really looking forward to it.

I still need to finish the last of my admin work. Awesome!

Jesse says they genetically engineered these fish to look these colors. They used genes from jellyfish!

This morning I had the utter delight of getting a complete physical. The needle sticking and the probing wasn’t too horrible. They really are great doctors! The best part about going to my doctor and great friend Pat Barrington, is that they are all missionaries over there.

Dr. Abraham is a real man of God!

And in case you were wondering, I’m in great shape!

I went over to Best Buy after my physical. After buying the new camcorder last week, I got home and found coupons from Best Buy awaiting me! One was for 12% off of cameras/camcorders. They told me bring it back and they’ll give the deduction, no problem. Groovy!

Had lunch with my family. Aren’t they cute!

J and I went to Willow Branch to work with the refuge kids. There are several girls who want to learn guitar now. J’s class may really be expanding.

Got down to 25 last night. The water in my barrel froze. I liked the crystal shapes of the water.

I thought these clouds were beautiful.

Full day today!

I had Kathy and Ashley with us along with Bayo to speak at the David Henderson Sunday School class at Peachtree Corners Baptist Church.

Bayo and Ashley both spoke and did great. Really proud of them both.

Here are my two favorite Nigerians.
Bayo and Bennett!

I normally have 30-45 minutes in that kind of setting. I compressed my presentation to about 10. I think it’s fun for folks to hear from some of my other awesome partners.

The Hendersons took us out for lunch at J. Alexanders. That place was great! We also had Keith and his daughter Kaitlin Harrell with us for lunch. Happy to spend time with them too!

I brought Bayo and the girls back home, took a short siesta then straight back to PCBC after picking up Bayo again. I checked out the great work that the men from FBC Mtn Park did las week.

Had fun this evening at the missions conference. I think we made some good contacts.

I stopped by to see my brother and sister-in law David and Debi Doverspike.

From time to time I like to post landmarks.

This week I passed 60,000 followers on Twitter. I am in the top 2,000 users. Last I read said more than 200,000 regular users and more than 4.5 million separate Twitter accounts.

I’m really proud of the tweets I post, which have a Ben Franklinesque spin to them.

If you’re not into Twitter, no fear! All my tweets, are on the whirlwindmissions.org site. Just click on the button “Tim’s Proverbs.”