Jesse and I rolled out to the North American Mission Board this morning. I did my seminar on the 5 Levels of Engagement for mobilizing people. They were an enthusiastic group!

It’s always fun to share with people who love what you do!

We met up and had lunch with a new friend from Kenya, Pastor Museli Ndonga. This picture is with Museli, Jesse and two men from the Video department at NAMB.

He’s a great guy! It’s so much fun for me to speak Swahili with another Kenyan. I usually speak a kind of Swahenglish. I’ll be going along in English saying something like, “And those guys better get their act together or there’ll be shida mkubwa!” And Museli would say, “Kweli!” Which means that’s True!

We went on for about 2 1/2 hours talking about missions, church planting and how to go about doing outreach in the area. It’s unbelievable how patient Jesse is!

After lunch, we stopped by Barnes and Noble (my favorite thing to do when I have twenty minutes to spare) then over to Azalea to work with the kids.

One of our volunteers is a wonderful lady named Linda Smalls. Today I took her over to Jemilllin’s house. Almost everyone that comes to the mission are boys and young men. We don’t have a lot of girls come in. My prayer is we’ll get some other lady volunteers soon and I’ll let the girls have “their” room. That seemed to help in the past.

The kids at the mission are doing well. Jesse and some of the kids got the Nintendo consoles going, so they’re having fun.

I really do love those kids.

Today I spent most of my time with Mohammed working on the Periodic Table. I love Science and Nature stuff. I enjoy studying the material again.

This mushroom log that Jesse bought that grows edible mushrooms is fruiting. We had one mushroom about two weeks ago. This time we’re seeing about 8 little buttons come up. I find this stuff fascinating.

Did you know that mushrooms grow with trees and their roots? They work together so the tree can absorb certain nutrients not produced by photosynthesis.

I am always amazed by the great complexity and beauty that God has created. Even on tiny levels. All that beauty and we just walk by completely oblivious.

Came home and ran 4 miles. Took Sugar with me. She does ok the first mile. Really bad the second half of the second mile, good on the third mile and just fine on the 4th. Definitely slowed me down.

One part of my run was funny. There was a couple riding up one of our hills on bicycles. I was keeping up with them!

Admin work now.

Usually every evening I start out by going through my email. While I’m doing that I check on Twitter. I finish up my email and start uploading pictures. I then write the blog and insert pictures. I pick the top three pictures, put them in a file for uploading to Facebook, write the status update and upload the pictures.

Depending on what’s going on it’s usually two hours every evening.

On to the next thing!

BTW, we just went over 120,000 pictures in our Photo Gallery at whirlwindmissions.org! We started out account with Smugmug on December 5, 2003.

May 19th, 2004 was the first day I went on line with a blog! Over 5 years now with nearly daily updates.

50 Videos for Story Tim–my favorite stories from 50 years!

That’s a lot of Mr. Tim!

My wife always says, “You live to hear yourself talk.” Perhaps she’s right.