I went to the Georgia Baptist Convention building this morning.

There was a meeting with the Mission Service Corps Missionaries from the North American Mission Board there.  I had four people from my team at the meeting:  Bennett Ekandem, Ruthie North, Rebecca Hampton and Keith Harrell.

Is was great to see them as well as meet some of the other folks on our team.


The guys at the GBC made the statement that I recruit about 25% of all the missionaries appointed in Georgia.  I thought that was pretty cool.
I saw this moth in the parking lot. Cool!

After the meeting we had a lunch time together and then Bennett and Ruthie and I met up with Ashley and Jesse at First Baptist Atlanta.  My partner Derrick Posten had picked up the majority of the supplies from the local Kroger.

I say the majority because they didn’t have it all.  That surprised me.  This was the first time we used this Kroger.  I hope they get the rest of the order right!

Ashley and Jesse picked up the grills that we had cleaned yesterday over to the church so we had all the equipment in one place.  Lots of stuff!

I took Ruthie, Ashley and Jesse over to the mall to enjoy some fellowship as well as go to the book store and Best Buy to continue my search for new video equipment. I thought this was a cool display!

We went over to Azalea to check on the kids at the mission.  I wanted to make sure that Miguel had handed out the last of the sandwiches that were donated from FBC Mountain Park.  It was all gone!  Lots of happy, well fed folks!

Then to the FBC Doraville to check on things at my office.  Thursday is my day to check on my plants.  Also collected a couple of bills.  Received the official notification that Ian and Ruthie North had been appointed.  AMEN!

We enjoyed hanging out with the kids at Huntington Creek.  Ashley and Ruthie did an art project, while Jesse, Eric (Ian’s younger brother) and I entertained them by jamming on the guitars and maracas.  Groovy!



Ian got home a little later and we took them all out for BBQ at Pig N Chick.  Excellent fellowship and pulled pork!

Jesse and I went over to Best Buy to take his computer in for repair.  It had some hardware issues with the hard drive.  He had gotten pretty much all the info off of the drives.  The tech guy said he could replace the drives in a few minutes, so we waited for that to happen.  He replaced them with new 150GB Seagate hard drives.  J was really happy with that.    Now he’s upstairs loadingon the software on his computer and getting it running again.  PTL!  Our ministry depends on Jesse’s great work with computers.  When he goes down, we all slow way, way down.

Fortunately, I’m able to keep up with my blog, email and the like, but the web site updates pretty much stop.

We came home from Best Buy in some of the worst weather imaginable.  Kathy got stuck out at Stone Mountain.  She’d been riding her bike.  We went to get her with tremendous hail, lightning and torrential rain blasting us.  Some of the scariest driving I’ve ever done.  I was really afraid that my windshield was going to get smashed.  Glad to be back home!  Kathy was soaked, but safe.  Amen!

I’m still getting ready to go to the big conference in Detroit tomorrow.  I have to be at the airport around 8am tomorrow morning.  That means I’ll get a really bad night’s sleep this evening.  I have a tendency to wake up a lot when I know I have to be somewhere early.  C’est la vie, baby.

I’m looking forward to the conference.

Be praying for me as I travel.  Also for the seventeen Outreach Events we’ll host this weekend!\

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