{"id":2243,"date":"2010-10-10T10:42:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T14:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=2243"},"modified":"2010-10-10T10:42:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T14:42:12","slug":"colorado-forward-base-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=2243","title":{"rendered":"Colorado &#8220;Forward Base Camp!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GREAT to be back home!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5626\/1040850288_WLAZM-S.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5413\/1040821228_vyiQb-S.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><br \/>\nFor the last three days I&#8217;ve been in the mountains of Colorado with the missionaries from that state.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5774\/1040857670_FQW9p-S.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5693\/1040833503_VdRVF-S.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been an awesome time with them!  I don&#8217;t really like the word &#8220;retreat&#8221; for a meeting like that.  So I told them it was a Forward Base Camp! Plenty of Tim time!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5690\/1040852865_qAQjv-S.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5728\/1040815836_nSk25-S.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><br \/>\nPretty remote ranch.  No internet.  No cell coverage.  No cable TV.  YOW!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5604\/1040810052_Cjvaa-S.jpg\" alt=\"j\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But a whole lotta GOD!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5660\/1040812530_L3TsM-S.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><br \/>\nWalt Disney had been there!  I&#8217;m his friend on the left.  You can tell because of the cool hat.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5613\/1040829674_8ota2-S.jpg\" alt=\"w\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And food!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5780\/1040819271_tEkjT-S.jpg\" alt=\"f\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I liked the dining hall.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5790\/1040839999_jvpzv-S.jpg\" alt=\"d\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was in Leadville cabin.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5620\/1040810982_VgjFJ-S.jpg\" alt=\"l\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what it looked like from my front porch.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5622\/1040850150_seUoz-S.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5674\/1040852020_W5RGh-S.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Got chilly!  Actually had frost on the ground.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5788\/1040800500_Ni2v4-S.jpg\" alt=\"f\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was fun to hang out with the families and get to know them and their awesome ministries better.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5658\/1040851577_YmNmJ-S.jpg\" alt=\"f\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5649\/1040831529_dFS6E-S.jpg\" alt=\"j\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5650\/1040851237_YF7QQ-S.jpg\" alt=\"r\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5651\/1040870215_jHpGh-S.jpg\" alt=\"g\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5653\/1040831760_KB7qn-S.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got home Saturday night around 10:30pm from the airport.  <\/p>\n<p>Sure am glad to be home.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to a great week!<\/p>\n<p>Glad to hear we have a new president of the North American Mission Board:  Kevin Ezell.  I think he&#8217;s going to do a great job!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5400\/1040801011_eV6w9-S.jpg\" alt=\"k\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While at the airport I saw this report on how America sees God.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5402\/1040840552_SDjnT-S.jpg\" alt=\"g\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I reckon sleep IS a perk!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5403\/1040859976_7YA8T-S.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I liked this plane at the Denver Airport.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5408\/1040801361_83m3n-S.jpg\" alt=\"p\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A reminder.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5412\/1040801570_BPh63-S.jpg\" alt=\"e\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My advice to you.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Trips\/Colorado-MSC\/IMG5404\/1040801231_uK8Gq-S.jpg\" alt=\"h\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREAT to be back home! For the last three days I&#8217;ve been in the mountains of Colorado with the missionaries from that state. It&#8217;s been an awesome time with them! I don&#8217;t really like the word &#8220;retreat&#8221; for a meeting like that. So I told them it was a Forward Base Camp! Plenty of Tim [&hellip;]<\/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\/2243"}],"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=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions\/2244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}