Got up this morning and worked on getting my last DVD for the team from last week in the mail!


Also worked on posting to my Twitter feed. Over 84,000 followers can’t be wrong!

Then over to FBC Doraville to give a briefing to my team from Peachtree Corners Baptist Church—one of my BEST partners!

Ashley and I took them over to the Buford Highway Farmers Market.

Here I’m encouraging people to do partake of the Whirlwind Missions tradition of kissing the Frozen Pig for good luck!

Not everyone digs it.

Then to the missions at Azalea, Cumberland Court and Highland Knoll!

We gathered the people, tossed eggs, told the Easter story and threw out candy!

Finished the afternoon with a delicious Vietnamese lunch with my friends from PCBC. GREAT to hang out with them!

I’m posting my pictures from the event as I write this. I still need to edit the video I shot from this afternoon. The cycle starts again!

Looking forward to a wonderful Easter morning tomorrow. He’s not dead, He is RISEN!

Love you guys!

It sure has been a GOOD Friday! PTL!

I recorded one of my best podcasts ever today! In fact it’s called “Best Day EVER! Click on the title and ENJOY!!

I worked on editing the video that I shot for my three teams in town last week.

I have to edit, compress then upload it to YouTube.

Then I burn a DVD for them.

And put that into the mail with a thank you note!

I also email them with a list of the locations on line for their video that I shot as well as the pictures that Ashley and I put on line. Normally, that’s in the hundreds!!

It all takes a lot of time, but I think it’s worth it! It’s all about customer service, baby!

Ate lunch with my sweet K today. I thought she looked like an Easter egg in her pink and lime green!

came home to rest and get a 2.25 mile run in!

Sweet ol’ Sugar Dawg came with me!

Admin duties now.

Looking forward to the three big Easter Outreach Events we’re hosting tomorrow!

Easter flowers in bloom and bud!

I had a great morning today with my new friend Jonathan Long from Eagles Landing Baptist Church!

I shared with him about our ministry and took him around the International Village!

Went to Buford Highway Farmers Market.

Then to show him some of the missions where they’ll be working.

Had lunch at Plaza Fiesta! Always something cool to see.

Yeah, baby!

Said goodbye to Jono than over to Clarkston to catch up with my team from Strong Rock school. They worked with my sweet wife Kathy today in her ministry with Mommy and Me. Ashley was there too to add her awesome presence. I met with them at Madina where we had chai and enjoyed the talking about missions.

On my way home, I called my tire guys and asked them if they could figure out why my car was still pulling to the left. Goodyear charged me for an alignment which didn’t work at all.


Greg at East Stone Mountain Tire and Battery did a wonderful job! Turns out that all they had to do to fix the problem was put the rear tires onto the front! Runs like an arrow now. What a relief.

Then went back to Goodyear to tell them how they had messed up and that I was firing them. I said it nicely, but . . .

Got back to my house in anticipation of my tree guys cutting up the big tree that had fallen.

In a few years this will be dirt!

I decided that it was best to cut it up into small pieces called “coins” and put them in the hole that I’m trying to fill up. Two stones, one bird!

Admin duties now and rest. Today marks 33 days in a row without a day off! Yow!

Just in case you forgot. . .

Got up this morning and paid bills. Included paying off nearly $4,000 on our Visa card with the money I got back from the IRS.

Ashley and I had a wonderful final day with our team from Journey Church!

We gave our briefing on Buddhism.

Then went to CD Tower to look at the idols.

I liked this Buddha with blue hair.

I found these things odd.

I don’t fancy milking a donkey.

Got more supplies for our outreach this weekend with Peachtree Corners Baptist Church!

The kids worked on decorating more Bags of Love!

I went to Perimeter Mall to go to the Apple Store. Sadly, my iPhone 5 was having an on/off button problem. Got a new one today!

Best part of the day was working with the kids! GREAT weather today!

Came home to check on the guys who were supposed to be cutting up the tree that fell in my back yard. They didn’t get to it today. Tomorrow!

Admin duties now. Watched a funny film called “Trip” tonight with K. Love the Brits!

When you have difficulty taking the police seriously . . .

It’s not right to test fighting animals.

Azaleas are starting to bloom!

Went over to pay for my car this morning. Over $400. Yow!

Then to FBC Doraville to brief the kids on Islam and Hinduism.

From there we went to Al Madina to check out the Islamic library they have and to meet with Abdul, my Muslim friend.

Finished off the morning at Global Mall to check out the Hindu temple. Always interesting!

Lunch at FBC Doraville and also to work on the Bags of Love project.

The kids decorated the bags, wrote some Spanish scriptures on them and put some candy in them for the residents at the apartment complexes.

It was great to have our team from Strong Rock Christian School serving with us today too!

Ashley and I visited the teams at the complexes. Sad to see our team from Fellowship Bible Church leave. They’ve been a wonderful group!

Also checked on the Journey Church team. They’ve been a great group of middle schoolers. Exceptionally great attitude, especially considering the near freezing temperatures!

Ash and I helped the kids with their homework. GREAT to have Kathy and Jesse to pitch in today!

That let me leave a bit early so I can work on my newsletter and get the labels done.

Admin duties now. Man, I’m pooped. I think this is 30 days in a row without a rest day. Ouch.

I was uptight about the weather this morning. I took this sunshine through the clouds that the Lord was with us!

Went by my mechanics to check on my car. They got it fixed. We’ll see how it runs tomorrow morning!

I had a fun time briefing my team from Journey Church from Franklin, NC this morning! Another fired up bunch of middle schoolers.

Then I took them to Plaza Fiesta to explore the wonders of that amazing place!

Next to Buford Highway Farmers Market. Another crowd favorite.

It was mighty cold today. Mid thirtys and REALLY windy. YOW! Hard to round up kids in that kind of weather.

We served in eight different locations today!

I spent most of my day with the Journey team since this was their first day.

After working with the teams, Ashley and I helped the kids with their homework at Azalea.

I sent Ashley home to rest and I went to Walmart to get more supplies for the service project tomorrow and the outreach this weekend with Peachtree Corners Baptist Church.

Didn’t have everything I needed, so had to go to a SECOND Walmart. Glad I have one near my house!

I couldn’t believe that we actually had some SNOW flurries as I was coming home from Chamblee today! Amazing!

Then home to spend time with K and watch a recorded episode of Psych and watch part 4 of the Bible on the History channel. Good stuff!

Admin duties now and rest. Back at the church at 10am for another briefing and safari with the teams!

Over 2″ or rain yesterday!

Had a great time with my teams from Fellowship Bible Church and FBC Jonesboro today!

Met up with the Fellowship team at Global Mall!

I took them to the Indian grocery store as well as to the Hindu temple.

They enjoyed seeing the Indian fashions!

Next stop was to Madina to learn more about Islam and enjoy some Middle Eastern food!

I always enjoy seeing my friend Ali!

Best part of the day is always working with the children at the missions!

Land HO!

Today is our last day with our team from FBC Jonesboro! Sad to see them go. They did a wonderful job!

My car ran really rough today. Engine light came on several times. Weirdly enough it ran fine on the way home. Still, I thought it was best to drop it off with my mechanics.

Admin duties now.

Enjoying watching Downton Abbey with K this evening.

I saw this sign at the Hindu temple. Made me wonder why we don’t do credit cards at church.

I prefer to be an ultimate driver.

Huh.

I liked the sound of “Inner Engineering.”

What more can you ask?

Had a great day today! It was super rainy this morning so I had to go into ultra-mega-positive mode to keep our spirits up. I had everybody chanting “Best Day EVER!” It was pretty intense!

Gave the group from Nashville’s Fellowship Bible Church my briefing this morning.

Ashley was working with my college team from Jonesboro. Worked out GREAT, although I missed her being there to help me with our “Horse and Pony” show!

Took the groups over to the Buford Highway Farmer’s market. Always fun!

Then to six locations around Chamblee and Doraville. By the time we got to the missions the rain had stopped. PTL!

Our team from FBC Jonesboro continued to do an AWESOME job too!

Looking forward to a good day with them tomorrow as we take them to explore the Global Mall and Madina grocery stores as well as back to the missions!

Admin duties now!

Today makes 28 days straight without a day off. Looks like at least five more days to go! But we’ve had over 100 professions of faith in the last week or so! That definitely keeps me psyched up!

Ashley and I had a great time with our team from FBC Jonesboro today!

We gave them our briefing. Always fun!

Like my new look?

Then off to Plaza Fiesta to explore and eat lunch.

Cleaned up a nasty area behind one of the apartment complexes.

Then over to the missions to work with the kids at Azalea Place, Shallowford Gardens and Buford Heights! Awesome day with an amazing team!

I liked the sound of this!

Had a great lunch with two of my good friends Tito Ruiz and Derrek Poston!

We had an awesome talk about church planting in Metro Atlanta in particular as relates to the Latino population.

It was great to have the WHOLE family with me today! We went to FBC Doraville to check on the amount of chairs and tables we have for the teams coming into town next week.

Ashley and I also went to get the rest of the supplies that we need for the outreach and service projects with our three teams coming this weekend and next week. We got most of what we needed at Party City and Walmart. We’ll be decorating these bags and writing scriptures in Spanish for residents. We’ll put some candy in them too!

Then over to the mission to help the kids! Always plenty to do.

The girls got a kick out of “my” 1 Dimension pajamas! Hilarious!

I enjoyed eating supper with my good friend Ian North and K and J!

Home now to work on admin duties.

Just finished filling out a grant application form with 12 Stone Church. They’ve been big supporters of our ministry in the past. Pray that they will continue to help us in the future!!

BEST NEWS of the day is that my Mom’s surgery went GREAT! She’s at home now and feeling just fine. THANKS for all your prayer for my family! God’s still in the miracle working business!

We liked Ashley’s new hair cut!

I thought this was funny!

Scary Ashley!

I liked these shoes! Goldy!