Did the grocery shopping this morning. Most of it was things Jesse.

Continued the research project Ashley and I are doing. I’ve picked out the major cities around 400 miles or less from Atlanta. I’ve divided the map into North and South hemispheres. Then I Google “Best churches in Memphis” and do research on each one.

It’s pretty easy to factor out churches that wouldn’t come. If you don’t have a web site, you’re probably not going to come. Same for if you lack a youth director. I have found very little interest from Afr/American congregations. If the youth director doesn’t even has his email listed probably not going to come.

It seems there’s a certain middle ground. The really big churches often don’t even list their staff which is kind of shocking to me. Same for the lack of email addresses. It’s like they make it difficult to find staff.

So I go through probably 40 of the best churches before I can find ten churches with 1) a web site 2) a youth director 3) with an email address. Wow.

I guess I’m just so social media minded it’s mind blowing to me.

Please pray that many of these churches will choose to come and work with Whirlwind Missions during the Spring break and Summer. We sent out to 50 different prospects today. A few churches have multiple people I sent information to.

It’s quite a process. I had to set up a list on our email program called Mail Chimp. Fortunately, Ashley had already done the heavy lifting on the creative part of the letter. She’s wonderful with graphics. She really has an amazing eye.

Put together the categories for the spread sheet. Includes: Church, Staff, Tel#, Email, Webpage, address, email sent box and two telephone boxes.

I upload the files to Google Drive and then share them with Ashley. We can edit the file. Living in the future, baby.

Basically it’s just sales. We make a lot of calls and emails and get people to come. It’s easy to promote. It’s me and Ashley. Equals awesomeness. And that doesn’t even include Penelope.

Worked at the mission with the kids. GREAT to have Ashley and Penelope there.


We took her outside behind the mission to walk in the grass.

Miles is going bowling this evening. So K and I get to watch P for the night. She’s such an angel blessing.

Watched two Australian shows tonight with Kathy. Redfern Now was pretty depressing. We’re watching a detective show set in the 20s that Ashley liked. It’s good.

Admin duties now. Getting psyched up for the all nighter.

This was surprising to me.

Why?

The moon in A.

(Like a treble clef. Notes on a music staff. But you knew that.)