This morning I got up early and started working on writing my newsletters to our supporters.  It’s a weigh of life!

Best thing about today was that Ashley was with me!  Jesse was still feeling sick.  Kathy took him to the doctor this afternoon.  They were both feeling bad.  Our doctor put them on antibiotics.  Pray that they’ll feel better soon!

Our first assignment was a Clarkston International Bible Church where we met with a group of International Pastors and leaders that meet at the church. 

Dr. Jerry Baker of the Georgia Baptist Convention’s language missions department made a presentation to explain to them how they could become a Baptist church.

It was interesting to help clarify to these Pastors what being a Baptist is all about.

My partner Ruthie North made a delicious lunch of curried rice for us and also explained our new ministry of jewelry making to help support the Pastor’s wives.  Being a refugee is hard enough, trying to also be a church leader is even more demanding.  Pray that Refugee Beads will help the pastor’s families raise the support they need to pay their bills.

Ruthie will also be working with other women in the community, but we’re trying to be help the Pastors and their leaders first.  I’ve learned over time that when the church loses their leaders they tend to collapse.  This is especially true with small churches made up of immigrants.  They don’t have a long tradition in this country or in their church to help them hold together.

After our meeting, Ashley and I went over to see one of my best partners, Clatie Lewis who works with the ministry Reboot. 

We needed to get a computer for another of our missionary leaders, Bayo Otiti from Nigeria.  We picked up a refurbished computer from Clatie and took it over to Bayo’s house to set up. 

We got it running, but couldn’t get the interet to work properly.  That didn’t really surprise me.  Normally, you have to have a tech person from the company to set it up the first time.  The program said that it wasn’t connected properly, which I’m sure it was.

Could be a cable problem, or a modem problem.  That’s why they have installation guys!

Bayo was so grateful.  I’m glad we could help!

Then over to the bank to get some money for Ruthie to get more beads for her ladies.  When we first start a ministry we have to invest money to get it off the ground.  Over time, it becomes self supporting.  But at first it’s still a fragile baby!  I feel confident that soon this will be a vibrant ministry that will really help families!

Ash and I went over to Azalea to check on the kids.  It’s been raining all days.  Weather plays into weather the kids get out much.  We saw a few of them, made sure that they were ok then went on over to FBC Doraville.

We stored the monitors that we got from Clatie and the repaired computers one of the church rooms.  Soon we’ll put them in one of the missions or give them to a needy family!

We took some dyes that I had in that room over to Huntington Creek for Ruthie and the ladies.  They may use them to make some t-shirts to help promote the new ministry.

Came on back to Stone Mountain, picked up Ashley’s car that had gotten a fresh oil change and to the Post Office to drop off the letters that we had written.

Fun day!