I met with Tim and Cathy Palmer–guests from Missouri. They’re supporters of our work and interested in perhaps relocating to this area.
I got them located at our mission at Huntington Ridge. I took them around to some of our market areas this evening.
Got home after 10 pm. Started working on my email.
Keep on keeping on.
Peace.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Kathy and I enjoyed hiking around the Tallulah Falls gorge. We always have fun together! I hiked from the ridge to the bottom of the gorge twice! Legs are sore now!
Saturday, July 28, 2007
I worked with the Atlanta Chinese Christian Church this morning and afternoon at Azalea Place and Highland Gardens in Chamblee. We had a great time playing with the kids, teaching them some origami, sharing dramas and eating ice cream.
Kathy and I then went up to Tallulah Falls to spend some time together. I’ve been working so many days straight that it’s really put our relationship under stress. We had a great time!
I had a lunch meeting with the young men from the mission: Jouvens, Miguel, Tabias and Geoffrey Palmer from Missouri. We discussed the video project we’re working on about the immigration situation here in Atlanta as well as the local gangs. I think we’re getting some good stuff.
Checked on my teams from New Prospect and Ridge Christian Fellowship.
Contacted the manager at Saratoga Springs. I’m trying to set it up as one of the three locations we’ll be covering with Crosspoint Church on Saturday.
Met my new neighbors across the street–at least some of them: Bob and Rick. Seemed like friendly guys. Rick has his girlfriend living with him. Bob had his shirt off and was covered with tattoos. Different.
I ran four miles this afternoon when I got back home.
Went to Lowe’s to get the last few things to finish off Jesse’s room–extra plug sockets and one more face plate. He’s pretty much done it all by himself.
Finished working on my email and uploading pictures of the teams. Sent off the packaged DVDs I burned this morning to the five churches we worked with last week.
I ran pretty hard. My tendons are a little sore. I had another of my neighbors that was running ahead of me. I passed him like a hurricane. Felt pretty good about that. Later I had one of the high school track guys run past me like I was sitting still. Everything is relative I reckon.
Worked with my two teams today in eight locations. Everything seems to be going well! I love it when a plan comes together.
Went to Office Depot to pick up supplies for the mail out this month and some DVD Mailers for the DVDs I burned for the teams.
Had a meeting with Geoffrey Palmer to keep him on task with the video project.
Jesse took his second half of the GED today. He stayed up all night long working on his room that we painted. Then went to the test. He seemed just fine!
Went through all my calls and email here at home this evening.
Had a great talk with Catherine and Tim Palmer from Missouri. They’re interested in relocating here to work at the missions. They both love working with internationals.
I worked on Jesse’s room today. We got the room painted. Now we’re working on redoing the plugs and the lights.
Ashley went with me to brief the two teams I have in town, one from S. Carolina and the other from N. Carolina! We’ll be covering eight locations this week–the final week of teams in the summer.
Peace.
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Jesse took the first part of his GED test today. If all goes well he’ll take the second half on Monday morning. He said it was, “Simple.” If he does as well as he thinks he’ll graduate from High School in August as a Sophomore. Pretty good! I helped him move his furniture from his room and started painting. I worked on that till about 2 am this morning.
I worked on editing the videos from the five churches that came to help us this week: Pyatt BC from Arkansas, Agape Puppets from N. Georgia, FBC Bonifay from Florida, Brookhaven BC from Atlanta and FBC Duluth. Here are the videos!
I went to Stone Mountain with Kathy this morning. I rode two miles on my bike then the tire popped. Bahd luck. I’m glad I wasn’t hurt in a high speed crash! When the bike went down I started running and put in another 5 miles on foot. I was mighty tired after that!
Jesse and I went to Lowes to pick up gear to paint his room. We’ll also change out all the light plugs, switches and the light.
Jeffrey Palmer came into town today. He’s going to be spending a couple of weeks with us shooting video and getting to know the young men of the mission at Azalea.
Kathy and I went to Riverdale to talk to the pastor at First Baptist Church, Jeff Lowe. He’s a cool guy. I’m looking forward to coming down to help them get started establish work in several of the apartment communities in the area.
Our team from Bonifay, Florida baptized to kids in the swimming pool at Briarlake Village. What a blessing!
Michelle Russell, the leader of the mission team coming next week from N. Carolina, flew into town this afternoon. I took her around to several of the missions and showed her the location of the church where the team will be staying.
Worked out on weights this morning.
Traveled over 102 miles today. Our work continues to expand.
Peace.
Wednesday, July 19th, 2007
Our team from FBC Florida helped us with an outreach at Azalea and at the Soccer fields of Chamblee. Brookhaven Baptist Church and the Agape Puppet team also helped. It was a great picture of unity!
Ran 4 miles in the morning.
Got up early this morning to finish up my financial reports for my treasurer.
Also finished burning the three sets of DVDs for my teams from last week. Everything is on line already, just needed the DVDs to send them.
Started out the day giving a briefing to my team from Arkansas that’s staying over at N. Peachtree BC. They’ll be working in six locations around the Chamblee area. I took the drivers around and showed them how to get to each location and where the best place was to set up.
Went through my list to call all the managers to make sure and remind them about the teams coming into town.
I’m at FBC Doraville right now waiting on my team from FBC Bonifay, Florida to show up. They’re in town but are in transit over to the church where I will give them a briefing. They’ll be doing the cooking and meetings here at the church and will start at the missions tomorrow.
I have a third team that will arrive into town tomorrow morning. They’re a puppet team that will be giving their show in nine different locations over the next three days. They’re always a great team and I look forward to hosting them again.
My cell phone went dead this afternoon. I had to go get another charger that will charge it up from the car lighter. Takes a lot of talking to go through a whole battery, but this time of the year with lots of teams in town it’s important to be able to stay in touch.
I hope to take them around today, but may not be possible because of the traffic.
Kathy and Ashley and I went to Clarkston International Bible Church this morning to support one of my partners Terry Earl. She has been working in Clarkston for the last six months with Bennett Ekandem and Ashley. She was commissioned as a missionary of CIBC today working under the direction of Whirlwind Missions. It was great to see her and my many friends at this missions minded church.
I’ve been working on editing and posting video to our mission video site. I try to post some of the material in this blog. Here’s the video from the Gold Rush teams.
I’m looking forward to watching Stage 8 in the Tour de France. The climbers are doing their thing up in the French Alps. Stunning beauty!
Today I hosted a youth team from Crosspointe Church in Duluth. The team will be going to Ecuador in August. They had a good taste of what they’ll be in for! It started raining about the same time as we were getting started. That was a bummer. Fortunately, it cleared off and we were able to have outreach events at Gwinnett Crossings, Westwood, Huntington Village and Huntington Ridge. The turnout was decent considering the weather.
Kathy and I worked out on weights, then went to Cici’s for pizza. Sort of like eating ice cream while drinking a diet coke.
They had a good taste of what they’ll be in for! It started raining about the same time as we were getting started. That was a bummer. 
Fortunately, it cleared off and we were able to have outreach events at Gwinnett Crossings, Westwood, Huntington Village and Huntington Ridge. The turnout was decent considering the weather.