Woke up at 5:30 this morning.  Ouch.

Been working on financial stuff.  I’m going to start helping my treasurer more with the record keeping.  It’s a lot of work for someone who’s a volunteer working 70 hours plus a week!  He’ll still have his hand in it in a supervisory role.  Just not nearly as much time.

Set up auto pay stuff on line with several utilities.  I’m amazed how not EVERY company offers that service or that some actually want me to pay extra for it!

I talked with my neighbor today.  I’ve been noticing his truck in the driveway the last couple of weeks.  I thought he might be on vacation.  He told me today that the company he worked for had gone “belly up.”  He’s looking for a job now.  That’s tough.

Went by Staples to pick up some supplies for the mission.  One of my friends there is Edwina.  She usually checks me out when I go there.  She made sure to let me know she wasn’t going to be around for a couple of weeks.  I asked her if that was something good, she shook her head emphatically “no.”  She’s going in for surgery in a week or so.  I let all her customers check out and then had a prayer time with her at her counter.  She seemed to really appreciate that.  Most people do.

It was really cold outside.  Looks great, but still cold.  Frozen birdbath weather.  Tomorrow it’s supposed to be great!

Do you do Facebook?  I had a friend from High School encourage me to set up a profile.  It’s been cool to see the folks that have contacted me.  Check out Facebook Profile.

There aren’t many meetings I enjoy going to.  The Unite meetings are an exception.

I’ve been working in Atlanta for thirteen years now.  Over that time I’ve made a lot of friends, some of them close friends.  Many of them go to the Unite meetings.  So it’s sort of like going to a fraternity meeting with old school chums!


It was great to see my partners from Perimeter and 12 Stone in particular.  The subject of the session today was the sex traffic problem in Atlanta.  Our city is in the top three in America with this problem and in the top ten globally!  A 500 million dollar problem that affects little girls from around the world.  Horrible.

I heard a story from a bust last week in Norcross.  A couple of underage Spanish girls were being kept captive in dog cages!  Unbelievable.  I’m glad that churches are trying to do something about this problem.  Our organization is called Street Grace.  Pray that we can help stop this from happening.

It was great to be with Ashley this morning.  She had on her reporter hat at the Unite meeting.  She’ll be writing a story about the problem for her newspaper at Perimeter College, the Collegian.  I think there are a lot of college students that will be interested in the problem and how they can help.

This afternoon I took Jesse and Kathy with me to Azalea.  I helped Jojuan with his play.  Kathy and Jesse helped the other kids with their homework.

It was fun to see all the kids on their bikes.

This evening we went to a seminar at Perimeter Church for all their ministry partners.  I always think they have stuff for us to learn.

It was fun to go over what motivates people to support ministry.

Steve Anderson did a great job leading the seminar.  He works with some of the largest companies in the world!