Jesse was my wingman today!


We went to the Holiday Inn in Doraville to meet with the team from County Line Baptist Church in Pucket, MS.  They were kind of tired, but I helped liven them up with my best briefing of the Summer so far!

Went to my office to meet with my partners Steve from Kindom Wise and Mike Rensel from Apartment Life.

We had lunch at Toreros (mi oficina dos) then over to Highland Gardens to get the team set up in their first location.  Spent time helping them gather up the kids.  Always the hard part.

We ended up with a good group of spirited youngters, most of which were Bengali.  Had a chance to meet some of the Bengali parents.  Even got to pray for one of the wives.  Her husband translated my prayer into Bengali so she could understand what I was saying.

Funny part was one of the other adults tracked us down so they could take picture of our team for the local Bengali newspaper!  I think it’s funny, these Baptist kids from a tiny rural Mississippi town on the cover of anything in Bengali!  I reckon they didn’t wake up in the morning thinking that was a possibility!

Met up with my partner Bayo Otiti from Nigeria at my office.  Took him to get something to eat and to check on my team from First Baptist at Azalea.  I was glad that they had gone home last night.  They were able to get a shower and a good night’s rest.  Always a good thing!  The kids were enjoying the team, even in the pouring rain!

J and I got the County Line team over to their second location and set up and we came back to Stone Mountain.

My parents had two dear friends of theirs spend the day with them:  Tom and Nancy Jones.

They’re also big supporters of ours and Tom invited me to be one of the speakers to the deacons at FBC Duluth, one of my best weekends this year!  It was great to see them!

And of course the season premier of Burn Notice!  What a great show.  K and I also watched Royal Pains, another USA network show.  Liked that too!  “Hank” is a doctor treating the super wealthy clients in the Hamptons.  It reminded me of working on the ultra rich people’s homes around the Austin area.  That was a cool gig!  I remember one house I worked in, the guy was a huge supporter of NASA.  He had an actual moon rock in an acrylic case on his desk.  Any idea how valuable that is?