{"id":14672,"date":"2021-07-19T19:20:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T23:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=14672"},"modified":"2021-07-19T19:33:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T23:33:35","slug":"christ-church-umc-pre-site-visit-7-19-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=14672","title":{"rendered":"Christ Church UMC Pre-Site Visit! 7.19.21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would you go down this road?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-jKwj6zm\/0\/4cbf0699\/L\/IMG_2630-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had a friend whose place was being vandalized.  I sent him this idea from Amazon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-rZtBM6f\/0\/2e15a364\/M\/IMG_2638-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hummusing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-xrssLkJ\/0\/deaa0aa5\/L\/IMG_2640-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had a fun day with old and new friends from Christ Church UMC from Birmingham, AL. We met up at the BAPS Hindu temple in Lawrenceville.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-qKCmbq4\/0\/352fc494\/M\/IMG_2641-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-JsZsjsk\/0\/fddba461\/L\/IMG_2642-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-93K7cjn\/0\/6b283d49\/M\/IMG_2647-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was there early and studied Spanish.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-TKd8H2J\/0\/102114d2\/L\/IMG_2631-L.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-n8kKwG2\/0\/5d5754b8\/L\/IMG_2632-L.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-mkZSS69\/0\/a10e5cad\/L\/IMG_2633-L.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-jtQpCgP\/0\/87222150\/L\/IMG_2634-L.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-XJmkbM4\/0\/4b117efb\/L\/IMG_2637-L.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also did some research on the temple.  34,000 bricks.  Turkish limestone and Italian marble.  Two years to build.  Carved in India. Sent the pieces in 200 containers to Savannah from India.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the difference between the limestone (cream colored) and the marble (gray).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-RfbrKrw\/0\/0e55cac3\/M\/IMG_2196-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love these.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-9BXtFRV\/0\/b22bccb9\/M\/IMG_2197-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-pTwktTc\/0\/d4aa13ad\/L\/IMG_2200-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-QWsGF9R\/0\/ce51f06e\/L\/IMG_2199-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beautiful Crepe Myrtles blooming on the property.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-Qv5KPRR\/0\/b26f73d3\/M\/IMG_2202-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had Somali food for lunch at Madina in Clarkston.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-vRGFtCP\/0\/f46d3406\/M\/IMG_2204-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-x7tBDD6\/0\/3eb32771\/M\/IMG_2206-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then to the Clarkston Mosque.  It was prayer time for them.  <\/p>\n<p>Safari continued at the Buford Highway Farmers Market.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-R8dBWQZ\/0\/ebf09e25\/M\/IMG_2209%202-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also took them to Asian Square.<\/p>\n<p>Mas Harry.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-RzqvtPt\/0\/4f47e904\/L\/IMG_2648-L.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Got the license plate stickers on.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Christ-Church-UMC-Pre-Site-Visit-71921\/i-WX438NX\/0\/de8dab6f\/M\/IMG_2210-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you go down this road? I had a friend whose place was being vandalized. I sent him this idea from Amazon. Hummusing. I had a fun day with old and new friends from Christ Church UMC from Birmingham, AL. We met up at the BAPS Hindu temple in Lawrenceville. I was there early and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14672"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14676,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14672\/revisions\/14676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}