I had an interesting day in a tough part of Atlanta today:  Pittsburgh.  It’s an area that has always been a black neighborhood.  My partners at the Salvation Army are building a huge center there.  I went down this afternoon to help them start work in a local apartment complex called City View Apartments.  The owner had fixed up the basement in one of the buildings and made it into a classroom for teaching ESL.  I hope to get my Salvation Army partners involved in an after school program there.

I enjoyed hanging out with two Jasons today.

Jason Pope has been my Salvation Army connection for the last couple of years.  He’s also been the director of our mission at Hamptons at Lenox.  He went with me to recon the new area.  It was great to be given such a warm welcome by the manager.

Jason Lemming is my partner interested in micro-loans and finance.  We hope to get this program started in the Clarkston area with the refugee community there.

This morning I went to Staples to pick up some supplies for the mailout then to the UPS store where I make my copies.

After my meetings with the Jasons I went over to Azalea to help the kids with their homework and to have them help me label envelopes for this month’s newsletter.

Then I went to the Verizon phone place where I changed my old phone for a new phone.  It’s still the same model (LG 8600) just a new phone.  My display started to go bad.  While I waited for them to transfer the data to my new phone I went to Taco Bell and wrote newsletters.

Got home about 8:30pm.  Enjoyed talking to Jesse.

Finished up my email.  I’ll work on newsletters again tomorrow morning.  Try and make a noon deadline.  Kathy is going to Azlalea to meet with some of the Bengali women.  Pray that that will be a good experience for her.

Peace.