{"id":176,"date":"2007-09-05T20:29:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T03:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2007-09-05T20:59:30","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T03:59:30","slug":"176","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/object>Over 125 miles today on the Chrysler. Lotta driving!<\/p>\n

Tito Ruiz and I went to Gainesville today to meet with a church planting partner Mike Taylor. He’s done a lot of research on the Gainesville area, in particular the church growth, or more importantly decline.<\/p>\n

I’m not big on research like that. I don’t really like to see what I know in my heart is already true. Church is in trouble. A lot of churches are thriving, but in general that doesn’t seem to be the case. they’re just barely holding their own.<\/p>\n

When a person’s #1 need is a relationship with God and they don’t have someone to share how that’s possible—it’s a very sad situation.<\/p>\n

That’s why I do what I’m doing.<\/p>\n

Got back to Chamblee after lunch and worked at my office on email.<\/p>\n

Then took computers from my partner Clatie Lewis’ house over to the mission at Pearl Lane. I’m really trying to help the team over there accelerate what they’re doing. Last week I bought a new air conditioner for the mission. This week I took them new computers and some software to help the kids do math and reading.<\/p>\n

Went to Azalea to help my kids with their homework.<\/p>\n

Went to Razwana’s house to help her install the printer and teach her how to use Microsoft Works.<\/p>\n

Ashley went to a presentation my partners at Clarkston International Bible Church had for prospective churches. I hope that gets them more people to plug in. I probably needed to be there more than in Gainesville today. I know Ashley did a great job without me.<\/p>\n

Kathy and I are watching the third season of House on DVD.<\/p>\n

J and I worked on updating the web site. We’re trying to figure out how to rename the maps to be even clearer to the average user. Ashley has already updated the actual maps. Now she’s working on getting the updated directions together for those maps.<\/p>\n

Always something to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over 125 miles today on the Chrysler. Lotta driving! Tito Ruiz and I went to Gainesville today to meet with a church planting partner Mike Taylor. He’s done a lot of research on the Gainesville area, in particular the church growth, or more importantly decline. I’m not big on research like that. I don’t really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"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=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}