This morning I had the utter delight of getting a complete physical. The needle sticking and the probing wasn’t too horrible. They really are great doctors! The best part about going to my doctor and great friend Pat Barrington, is that they are all missionaries over there.

Dr. Abraham is a real man of God!

And in case you were wondering, I’m in great shape!

I went over to Best Buy after my physical. After buying the new camcorder last week, I got home and found coupons from Best Buy awaiting me! One was for 12% off of cameras/camcorders. They told me bring it back and they’ll give the deduction, no problem. Groovy!

Had lunch with my family. Aren’t they cute!

J and I went to Willow Branch to work with the refuge kids. There are several girls who want to learn guitar now. J’s class may really be expanding.

Got down to 25 last night. The water in my barrel froze. I liked the crystal shapes of the water.

I thought these clouds were beautiful.

Full day today!

I had Kathy and Ashley with us along with Bayo to speak at the David Henderson Sunday School class at Peachtree Corners Baptist Church.

Bayo and Ashley both spoke and did great. Really proud of them both.

Here are my two favorite Nigerians.
Bayo and Bennett!

I normally have 30-45 minutes in that kind of setting. I compressed my presentation to about 10. I think it’s fun for folks to hear from some of my other awesome partners.

The Hendersons took us out for lunch at J. Alexanders. That place was great! We also had Keith and his daughter Kaitlin Harrell with us for lunch. Happy to spend time with them too!

I brought Bayo and the girls back home, took a short siesta then straight back to PCBC after picking up Bayo again. I checked out the great work that the men from FBC Mtn Park did las week.

Had fun this evening at the missions conference. I think we made some good contacts.

I stopped by to see my brother and sister-in law David and Debi Doverspike.

From time to time I like to post landmarks.

This week I passed 60,000 followers on Twitter. I am in the top 2,000 users. Last I read said more than 200,000 regular users and more than 4.5 million separate Twitter accounts.

I’m really proud of the tweets I post, which have a Ben Franklinesque spin to them.

If you’re not into Twitter, no fear! All my tweets, are on the whirlwindmissions.org site. Just click on the button “Tim’s Proverbs.”

I really love going to the missions conference at Peachtree Corners BC.

I have SO many of my partners that go to the conference. Bennett and Idong Ekandem, Keith Harrell, Eduardo Zamora, Bayo Otiti, Carlos Salaverria, Matt and Ashley Johns. When I see all those guys together, I think of the history that I’ve had with these families. It’s a really happy time.

The service was great tonight. We spent about an hour in prayer with a small group of missionaries. Powerful stuff!

I really like the new pastor, Dr. Hayes. He had a terrific message on Jonah.

I’m working on Admin stuff and getting my gear together for the presentation tomorrow morning at PCBC.

There were snowflakes falling this evening!

I don’t like people that do this.

I enjoyed having Jesse as my wingman today, on our day “off.”

Big day today!

After nearly exactly 8 years I’ve finally been able to upgrade my video camera! I got wonderful use out of my old Handicam DCR-PC9. The whole Video Seminar on my website was shot with that camera.

This new one is the HDR-XR500V. Has a great lens and about TEN times the video quality of my old camera. I’m really looking forward to using it to share what’s going on in our work!

Jesse and I also went to the book store. I really like the Barnes and Noble in Lawrenceville.

I always look at books on Costa Rica.

But today I went to buy Seth Godin’s new book “Lynchpin.” I’m a big fan of his. And his blog is really good too, if you like marketing and business books.

This evening I went to Peachtree Corners Baptist Church. This is their mission conference weekend.

I believe this is the 13th of their conferences in a row that I’ve been to! Really is one of my favorite churches. Their new pastor seems really cool too!

I’m back at home now. Going through all my admin duties.

I did a lot this morning, too: All of my tax prep stuff. What a hassle.

Every January I redo my mailing list. Today I spent time making sure all the addresses were correct. Glad I got that done!

While at the book store, I saw this quote by Henry David Thoreau. We were born on the same day. July 12th. Along with Julius Caesar (the namesake of the month July) and Bill Cosby.

I liked this little bird nest.

J and I went to picked up K’s meds at the doctor.

Then over to Thai of Norcross for a great lunch. I had fun talking with the Thai guys about where other Thai people live. They told me to “Go to Thai Temple.”
They then proceeded to draw me maps and bring me information about the Temple. I have partners on their way to Bangkok. I hope to get them connected with this group.

Jesse and I picked up Eduardo Zamora and we went to the North American Mission Board, I’m a NAMB missionary. I am part of their Mission Service Corps. We raise our own support.

Today I got to speak to the leaders of this group from around the USA. 38 states represented! Pretty cool. It was a fun group to hang out with.

It was good to spend time with Eduardo. He’s always a blessing to me.

Just like Jesse!

Woke up this morning and started writing newsletters. We had about 240 this month. Sure can make your hand tired, but I think the personal contact is really worth it.

Jesse and I met up with two partners of mine Jeff Anefils and Joe Fambrough this afternoon to pray for Haiti.

I got in contact with my mentor Fred Sorrells who is working in sports ministry in Texas. We worked together on many projects in Zimbabwe, S. Africa and Madagascar.

In fact, we were on the field with the real life Invictus movie where the S. AFricans when the Rugby World Cup. Awesome!

I got Fred on a conference call with Jeff and Joe so we could pray about the Haiti situation.

Our prayer is to get Jeff and Fred into the country as soon as possible. Pray for that.

We got home late from the mission since our prayer meeting ran long. I helped Rosebel with solid figures and Rebecca with her report on Debussy.

It’s nearly 1am and I still have work to do.

I had a bunch of paper work for some new missionaries coming on line. It’s all worth it!

New Psych tonight on TV. Love that show. Not enough Gus tonight though.

I finished writing my newsletters and went to Staples to make the copies.

Went to the Post Office to buy stamps.

J and I went over to Azalea to help the kids with their homework.

I had a very serious conversation with two of older Bengali kids about Jesus and Islam. Pray for an open spirit.

Lots of talk about what happens when you die. Who goes to hell?

Came home to work on admin duties and start signing the newsletters.

Beautiful sunset at the mission.

We had a lot of rain yesterday. 2″ in my rain gauge here in Stone Mountain.

Jesse and I had a meeting with the leaders with a few of the ministries here in the International Village. We saw this car on the way to the meeting.

Always great to pray with friends!

We came back home to the office so I could work on the newsletter and year end financial reports.

Then over to Willow Branch where Jesse teaches guitar. I always enjoy hanging out with Bennett and Susan

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Back home now working on admin duties, write the newsletter and crunching numbers.

Rainy, foggy morning.

K and I enjoyed a great service at Clarkston International Bible Church this morning.

Phil Kitchin is my favorite preacher. He’s got such a great heart for people too!

Jesse and I went to the pet store this afternoon to pick up another filter pump for the aquarium.

He did a major clean up of the tank yesterday. Looks awesome now!

I’m working on admin stuff now. Studying Espanol.

I’ve been doing more research on cameras. I doubt they’re going to be able to fix my camera properly. Normally, with the third repair order, they do a “junk out.” Which means, if you have the proper warranty (I do) they give you the replacement value for the camera towards buying another. Between that and the Reward Zone coupons I have I can just about buy the new camera.

I’m looking at the Canon Z90. It’s small, like my ELPH PowerShot, but has much more powerful processors and imaging device. But the real deal breaker with this camera is the lens which is super bright. That means you can shoot with much less light and still get good pictures.

Flash is always problematic, especially for white people wearing dark clothes. The faces look washed out.

So some great things on the horizon.