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.

There’s always tomorrow!

Peace.