Had fun today!

Jesse and I went to FBC Doraville to meet up with Greg Lang, a friend of ours from Perimeter Church.  He’s writing an article on our ministry.

I always enjoy showing people our work.  It’s sort of like taking people on safari through a never explored game park in Africa.  I get the same kind of astonished looks I used to get from tourists in the bush.  I dig it.

We started out in Clarkston.  Had a great lunch with Bennett at Madina, our favorite place to eat roast goat and tibis beef.

Then over to the Clarkston Community Center to meet up with our partners at the Refugee Sewing Society.  Always great to see Cathy, Ruthie and Kelly.

I also gave the Bibles in Somali, Arabic, Nepalese, Swahili and Kinrwanda to my partners at Clarkson International Bible Church.  Its cool to see so many different versions of the same scripture!

From the heart of the refugee community we headed over to Buford Highway to see several stores at the Asian Square.  My only disappointment was that all the duck heads were sold out!

We met up with Brad Hodges, the young adult director from Redeemer Church at Asian Square.

He’s leading a college team to our mission at Azalea this weekend.  Kathy and I will be out of town (PTL!) this weekend, so I wanted to make sure that he knew the lay of the land, met some of the kids and had a key to the mission.  I’m sure it’ll work out great!

While I was working with the kids I saw Miriam, one of the moms.  She told me that Jemillin was having a REALLY big problem.  She’s like a daughter to me so I immediately went over to see what was the problem.  Apparently, her binder which had all her work in it was missing.  She was really crying.  Very sad.  So I told her, “Let’s go check the school, maybe someone found it by now.”  So she and her mom, J and I jumped in the car and headed over to Huntley Hills Middle School.  We talked with one of the ladies in the office who gave us permission to look for the binder.  We went over to the cafeteria and THERE IT WAS!

She was so happy!  I was glad to be able to help out a little bit.

Back to Azalea to help the kids with their homework.  Teaching Freddy how to spell, pet, bet, let, get . . . “Now what’s the middle letter?  How does a ‘t’ sound?”

He’s a sweet kid, but I’m still not convinced he understands this spelling stuff.

Cathy Wilson and her two daughters came to the mission to check on Rosena’s new baby. The father of the baby is being a real butthead. I could tell you all the details, but it only makes me furious. Pray for that family.

Johan, one of my Bengali kids, had a new taxi service! This was a new one on me!

It was fun to have my wing man, Jesse with me today.  He’ll be helping his sister tomorrow.  I hope Ian will keep me from getting lonely!

I get tired of driving around for hours by myself!