This morning Jesse and I met up at El Toreros (mi oficina #2) with my great partner Trey Garrard!

Trey helped Ashley at her mission at Kensington Station. Whirlwind has been supporting him at Dallas Theological Seminary where’s he’s working on his degree so he can be a Pastor! He’s a great guy and I’m glad we got to spend time with him!

We went by office at FBC Doraville to pick up the mail and check on the internet connection from my partners Deborah and Ron Hayes. I’m glad that they got it working again! J and I worked on it for about an hour and the ATT guy said we’d have to call back the next day. Glad Ron was there to figure it out!

We gathered up toys that a friend and dropped off and took them over to Huntington Terraces for my partner Bayo Otiti to use. He’s doing great at the mission there and seems to be settling in well.

Went by Walmart to pick up some supplies then over to Azalea Place to go check on the kids and ask them how they felt about school getting ready to start. Girls were ok about it. Boys not so much.

Took Bayo back to the mission and Jesse and I came on back to Stone Mountain.

My back is better, but still not good enough for me to start running again.

Working on financial reports.

I hurt my back last Tuesday. Started to feel better Saturday.

I went to the Braves game with one of best friends, and the smartest guy I know, Carl Barrington.

We had fun visiting together and seeing the Braves beat the Dodgers. Cool!

I picked up Kathy and we went over to their house for supper and games. Fun!

Sleeping better. Still tired. Kathy let me sleep in this morning.

It’s rained about 3 1/2″ over the last four days at my place. Mushrooms starting to sprout.

One of my favorites!

Still hurting with lower back issues.

Worked through all my email and calls.

I’ll get my financial report together tonight if I feel well enough.

I’ve really been looking forward to this afternoon!

Jesse and I went over to the Westin hotel near the airport to meet up with two great friends of mine from my mission days in East and Southern Africa. Jon Sapp was the Regional Director for E/SA and was a great leader for our missionaries!

I wanted to get his input on how to get our International Mission Board personnel that haven’t been deployed for visa or medical issues, and plant them in the people group they want to work with here in Atlanta.

Jesse and I went by my office at FBC Doraville to work on our modem that’s not working. ATT sent us a new modem and we have to install it. We got it all together, but apparently there’s a problem with the signal. We’ll work on it again tomorrow.

My back has really been hurting again.

I spent hours working on newsletters. I’m sure that plays into it.

It was great to work with Jesse today!

On March 1st, I entered the world of Twitter.

This evening I broke 20,000 followers! Cool!

Check out twitter.com/timacummins.

This morning I headed for Staples to pick up envelopes, ink and labels for our newsletters. Also went by the Post Office to pick up stamps.

Then to Reboot, my partner that helps us with us computers, to pick up two sets. I took the hardware to Azalea Place and to Huntington Terraces, two of our best missions!

Picked up Ruthie North, Ernest and Jouvens to hang out with them and take them for lunch. Also great to talk about work and friends!

The kids at Azalea helped me with the labels. THANKS kiddos!

This afternoon started writing the newsletters. C’est la vie, baby!

K and I had a fun weekend in Chattanooga!

Did a lot of biking.

Looked around the downtown area.

And as always my favorite Reflection Riding.

Need to work on my newsletter.

Went into Chamblee this afternoon to check on my team at Huntington Creek. They were doing great!

My goal was to go by all three locations, but I got a call from a partner who needed supplies for a block party this weekend, so I had to go to the grocery store instead of seeing them all. Bahd luck.

Got all the supplies and dropped them off at FBC Doraville which is where I met the President of our board at Whirlwind Missions: Dr. Carl Barrington. I’ve known Carl for over 20 years and went to W. Africa with him and and wife Pat in 2007.

Carl took me over to see the Italian team play the Mexican team at the Georgia Dome. It was the largest soccer game ever held in our city. Estimated about 35,000 people came to the game! I was pulling for the Mexicans–and they 2-1. Awesome. This picture was near the start of the game and a lot more people showed up!

It was beautiful to walk downtown as it was getting dark. The missing windows from this building came from the tornado that hit downtown Atlanta last year.

Kathy and I are headed out of town for a few days. Sure am looking forward to some time off. I looked at my travel notebook, and I think I’ve had about 4 days off in the last 28. Gotta take a break when it gets a little slower.

This week was my final week of the Summer Teams! Had some great ones! But I am glad to get back to “normal.” Whatever that is!

Woke up with my back still hurting. Took a bunch of tylenol. Feel better.

Met up with Ian and his sister Lisa North, Bayo and BOTH Ashley and Jesse. GREAT!

We enjoyed getting together and talking about the work.

Then over to see my teams from Inskip BC, TN.

And my group from Faith BC.

Ashley shoots pictures and lets me concentrate on shooting video.

Came on home early so I can rest my back.

Ashley’s taking Jesse over to Willow Branch so he can teach his guitar class.

Here’s Ashley’s sermon!

Part ONE

Part TWO

Part THREE