Worked on contacting partners this morning. I came up with some solid leads for public schools where we could place a performance team coming to help us for Spring Break. Great!

Had lunch with the family! Always groovy!

Worked on a new podcast. One of my best!

Learn how to change yourself in new and powerful ways. Try out “Mud!”

Met up with Ashley and Jesse and went to Southern Trace to sign a new lease agreement at the mission there.

Then over to Azalea to work with the kids. They helped us do labels. Hilarious!

Ashley’s doing a great job with the kids and her new white board!

Great to have Merribeth to help us with the kids!

I got doughnuts for the kids!

Came home to work on admin duties and enjoy watching Season 5 of Psych! Can’t wait for the new season coming out soon!

I saw this in the USA Today paper. Interesting.

Are you smarter than a 6th grader? Find the area!

Today Kathy and I met up with Ashley at the Peachtree Corners Baptist Church Missions Conference!


We were both dressed up in our Bengali outfits. Mine is called a Kurta.

We had a fun time meeting with people who visited our booth.


Ashley went to get some breakfast during one of the breaks. Her battery went dead and I had to go help her jump off the car. Glad it started right up!

It was great to hear Dr. Bruce Wilkinson speak!


The church pledged over $650,000 to missions! Wow!

I liked the decorations in the sanctuary.

I enjoyed getting to know the other missionaries.

I spoke on the Prodigal Son this evening. I did it in an African voice. Then I told the story of my friend Mohosana getting lost. I thought it was a powerful one-two punch. Most everyone also signed up to help us do outreach in March. AMEN!

I thought this was beautiful.

Went over to Peachtree Corners Baptist Church today! I set up my display for the conference.


Always enjoy seeing good friends.

We had a good prayer time with the other missionaries.

Went to make copies for one of our pages for the newsletter. Every year in the February edition we give the people that haven’t supported our ministry the chance to stop receiving the newsletter.

That keeps our prices for the postage as low as possible and keeps only the interested people on the list.

Worked on my newsletter. It’s a good one!

Laid out the publication and sent it over to my good friend Joel Harrison who is with the Atlanta Metro Baptist Association who makes the copies for us to mail out. THANKS AGAIN for that!

While Kathy and Jesse went for a walk, I recorded a new podcast! Always fun!

This is a great edition which I call “Glass Walls!” Do you ever confine yourself? You hold the key to freedom!

Working on my other admin duties.

Looking forward to resting. I slept better last night. PTL for that!

Had a fun family day today!

We enjoyed lunch with Ashley and Jesse!

Then we all worked together to determine our newsletter list. Every year we go through our donors to see if they responded to our newsletters that year. If we haven’t heard from a supporter for a whole year, we send them a form asking them to verify they want to be on the list. If they don’t mail the little form back in, we stop sending them the newsletter. Of course many people prefer to read it on line which they always have access to!

That helps to keep the price of stamps and making copies as low as possible.

We enjoyed visiting with some of our favorite Bengali families this evening. It’s always a good time seeing “my” kids as well as their parents.

The food was delicious!

Home now to finish up my admin duties.

Tomorrow morning I have to get up early to set up my display at Peachtree Corners. We also have a small team in town that Ashley will be working with.

The moon was beautiful this evening!

Had a fun time hanging out with Dean Osuch today! He’s a pastor from Peachtree Corners Baptist Church, where I’ll be speaking this weekend.

We shared with him about what his teams will be doing for Outreach in March. Always great to have churches mobilize!

Spent part of the afternoon looking for a new jacket for Jesse. He tore his old one.

I like his new one a lot!

Of course Ashley always looks fabulous!

Worked with the kids at the mission. I cleaned the game room up and helped with homework.

I also told the creation story. Pray for this outreach to the kids. They have a hard time sitting still for even five minutes.

Admin duties now.

We’ll be working on our newsletter this weekend as well as the conference at Peachtree Corners Baptist Church.

I thought this tiny tent was cute. I guess a baby could fit in it!

I thought the sunset was magnificent this evening.

Worked on a new podcast this morning!

I always enjoy that!

I’ve had some really great response lately from listeners. That’s keeps me fired up about doing them!

This one is called “The Bar!” How do you make yourself even better? Raise the bar! This podcast will help you do that. Just click on the title and get groovin’!

Had a good lunch with Jesse and Kathy.

Dropped them off and went to Walmart to do the grocery shopping.

Had some supplies I needed to get for the mission as well. Poster boards in particular.

Went to the mission to help the kids with their homework.



Silly Jose.

We put the finishing touches on the Solar System project.

I think they turned out very well and I hope they all make an A!

Ashley and I had a meeting after the kids went home to discuss some teams coming into town. The logistics get tricky and we have to make sure that we’re all on the same page with the schedules.

Stopped for grilled chicken on the way home.

Admin duties now.

Beautiful sunset at the mission.

Got below freezing last night!

Water in the bird baths was frozen!

Worked on admin duties this morning. Emails and calls.

Had a session with the counselor helping our family. Glad Jesse is doing so much better!

Worked with the kids at the mission. We put the planets in the boxes today and wrote a fact about each.

285 was slammed this evening. Went through Norcross to Stone Mountain. Hate traffic.

Admin duties again.

Started getting hospital bills. Major stress. Pray for our family.

I enjoyed a fun lunch with Kathy and Jesse today!

We dropped Kathy off at CIBC so she could ride her bike back to our house. That’s about 8 miles!

Jesse and I went to Azalea to help the fourth graders work on their planet project.


Today’s assignment was to paint the boxes I cut for them black.

I thought they did a good job.

Back home now to work on admin duties and rest. Big week coming up with the missions conference at Peachtree Corners Baptist Church. They’re one of my original partners from 1996!

Kathy, Jesse and I enjoyed Clarkston International Bible Church today!

We had a middle school group from Hunter Street Baptist Church sing. They sounded good!


Pastor Phil continued his series from Revelation. He talked about the church of Pergamum today. Interesting.

K, J and I ate Somali food at Madina, then went for a short visit with Ashley and Miles. Always good!

Watched the last of the game with San Francisco and Atlanta. Sad we lost, but I don’t really get fired up about football.

Had about 1/2″ of rain last few days. Sure am glad to see the sun again!

Went to Red Robin for a burger. I ate the Royal Burger with a fried egg on it. I think it might have been the best burger I’ve ever eaten.

Had a chai latte at Barnes and Noble. I enjoyed reading Seth Godin’s new book, the Icarus Deception. Excellent!

Main job was to go the ATT store and try and figure out the internet at the mission.

I got it squared away. Took about an hour. Place was packed.

Got the car gassed up and ready for next week.

Feeling tired today. Didn’t sleep well last night. Got kind of cold in the house.

Resting and finishing up my admin duties. Our treasurer dropped off the financial reports that Ashley works on. Got those organized and in the filing cabinet for our permanent records.

I liked the bumper stickers I saw today!

I agree with this. Although if they dropped an encyclopedia out of the airplane it could still do damage.

Not sure what to make of this.