I enjoyed a fun day!

This morning I went for a 4 mile run. Just as I was getting home, Kathy was going out for a walk with Sugar our sweet dog. So I went back out for another 4 miles. Good work out!

Came home and picked up Ashley, Jesse and Miles to go out to eat at Chilis. Then over to Pet Smart. Jesse is setting up his fish tank again. We got him a good stand for the tank.

Jesse is feeling better.

Working on admin stuff now. Still feeling tired.

Kathy and I met up with Ann Mitchell (Kathy’s sister) this morning at FBC Mountain Park to hear Dr. Bill Blanchard speak.

He spoke on the importance of work AND rest! I need to hear that. Lots of great folks in that church!

After lunch, I went to N. Peachtree BC to meet up with my team from FBC New Orleans. Took them on over to Azalea to have fun with the kids. They did a great job!

Then to Huntington Terraces to finish up their mission trip for the weekend! They were a real blessing!


Came home to check on K and Jesse. He’s got a cold. Spitting up green crud and coughing. He’s taking some Nyquil. If he doesn’t get better right quick, Kathy will take him to the doctor on Tuesday. Pray for healing!

Kathy rested this afternoon so she felt well enough to go to Fuddruckers for a family get together.

Always fun to hang out with them!
Ashley went to the birthday party for her best friend Ashley Baird. 21!

Back home now. Working on my usual admin stuff. It’s a weigh of life.

Today I had a great time with my team from First Baptist Church New Orleans! I picked up Bayo from his mission at Huntington Terraces and we met the team at N. Peachtree Baptist Church.

I had a briefing with the team then took them on a tour of the International Village, in particular Asian Square and Carniceria Numero 1! Fun!

Then over to Azalea to work with the kids at the mission.

Great time! Then the team did their second location at Huntington Terraces. Had a fun group there as well!

Kathy’s been sick so I’ve been concerned for her. Came on home about 6pm. She was feeling well enough to climb up Stone Mountain part way. We went up the quarry (East) side of the mountain. We had the whole place to ourselves. It was beautiful and awesome!

I know why they call it the Yellow Daisy festival!

I thought it was weird how the sheets of granite would just crack open.

Came on home and started on my admin stuff: email, blog, facebook, twitter. Web 2.0 baby.

Worked on email this afternoon.

Ran 4 miles this morning.

Carpet got cleaned. Amen!

Went to Stone Mountain and ran another 2.4 miles on the elliptical treadmill.

More admin this evening and prep work for my team from FBC New Orleans tomorrow morning.

This morning Jesse, Ashley and I went to Clarkston to meet up with my partners from NAMB who came to serve the refugee community.

They did a great job. I was very proud of Tim Palmer and Kevin Riley in particular for setting it all up. It’s not easy to mobilize hundreds of people and I think it went really well.

I liked this picture of Cathy Palmer with her students from Bhutan!

It was good to see friends from the board!

The kids and I went to Peachtree Corners Baptist Church to pick up some school supplies the collected for us. SUPER! I also got some really good news that they’ve brought a new pastor on board. Great to hear that! A congregation needs a pastor!

We went to Azalea to help the kids. Sometimes I just about lose my mind answering the same question 50 times along with the same begging, “Mr. Tim, I need help!” Everybody wants their piece of Mr. Tim.

Kathy is feeling a little better today. She’s still really stopped up.

Here’s the growth on the mushroom log!

We watched the movie Twilight tonight on Netflix. Talk about a chick movie! But it was better than I thought it’d be. Which isn’t saying much. Wow that movie has created a huge following!

Jesse and I rolled out to the North American Mission Board this morning. I did my seminar on the 5 Levels of Engagement for mobilizing people. They were an enthusiastic group!

It’s always fun to share with people who love what you do!

We met up and had lunch with a new friend from Kenya, Pastor Museli Ndonga. This picture is with Museli, Jesse and two men from the Video department at NAMB.

He’s a great guy! It’s so much fun for me to speak Swahili with another Kenyan. I usually speak a kind of Swahenglish. I’ll be going along in English saying something like, “And those guys better get their act together or there’ll be shida mkubwa!” And Museli would say, “Kweli!” Which means that’s True!

We went on for about 2 1/2 hours talking about missions, church planting and how to go about doing outreach in the area. It’s unbelievable how patient Jesse is!

After lunch, we stopped by Barnes and Noble (my favorite thing to do when I have twenty minutes to spare) then over to Azalea to work with the kids.

One of our volunteers is a wonderful lady named Linda Smalls. Today I took her over to Jemilllin’s house. Almost everyone that comes to the mission are boys and young men. We don’t have a lot of girls come in. My prayer is we’ll get some other lady volunteers soon and I’ll let the girls have “their” room. That seemed to help in the past.

The kids at the mission are doing well. Jesse and some of the kids got the Nintendo consoles going, so they’re having fun.

I really do love those kids.

Today I spent most of my time with Mohammed working on the Periodic Table. I love Science and Nature stuff. I enjoy studying the material again.

This mushroom log that Jesse bought that grows edible mushrooms is fruiting. We had one mushroom about two weeks ago. This time we’re seeing about 8 little buttons come up. I find this stuff fascinating.

Did you know that mushrooms grow with trees and their roots? They work together so the tree can absorb certain nutrients not produced by photosynthesis.

I am always amazed by the great complexity and beauty that God has created. Even on tiny levels. All that beauty and we just walk by completely oblivious.

Came home and ran 4 miles. Took Sugar with me. She does ok the first mile. Really bad the second half of the second mile, good on the third mile and just fine on the 4th. Definitely slowed me down.

One part of my run was funny. There was a couple riding up one of our hills on bicycles. I was keeping up with them!

Admin work now.

Usually every evening I start out by going through my email. While I’m doing that I check on Twitter. I finish up my email and start uploading pictures. I then write the blog and insert pictures. I pick the top three pictures, put them in a file for uploading to Facebook, write the status update and upload the pictures.

Depending on what’s going on it’s usually two hours every evening.

On to the next thing!

BTW, we just went over 120,000 pictures in our Photo Gallery at whirlwindmissions.org! We started out account with Smugmug on December 5, 2003.

May 19th, 2004 was the first day I went on line with a blog! Over 5 years now with nearly daily updates.

50 Videos for Story Tim–my favorite stories from 50 years!

That’s a lot of Mr. Tim!

My wife always says, “You live to hear yourself talk.” Perhaps she’s right.

Today I had a disappointment. I was looking forward to meeting up with my new Kenyan pastor friend. Unfortunately, he had wageni (visitors) in town so we had to put it off until tomorrow. Bahd luck.

The good news is that he’ll meet me up in Alpharetta at NAMB so that’ll save me lots of miles on the car!

Probably worked out for the best. I stayed up till about 1:30am working on admin stuff. Little extra rest is always good.

Had a fun family lunch today!

It’s been rainy and damp for about a week now which means that there are lots of mushrooms popping out. I walked about a mile through the forest searching for cool new species I haven’t seen before.

Beauty!

Went to Clarkston this afternoon to help the refugee kids with their homework while Jesse taught his guitar class.

Also took Bennett over to pick up his van. Glad I could help!

Back home now working on my home work.

I’ll lift weights later.

Kathy is running a slight temp and has a cold. Pray for her!