{"id":2412,"date":"2010-12-09T21:14:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T01:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2010-12-09T21:14:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T01:14:05","slug":"cold-peace-azalea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=2412","title":{"rendered":"Cold! Peace! Azalea!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, was it cold this morning!  Yow!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-12910\/IMG7852\/1120815461_5oian-S.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><br \/>\nWater in my bird bath froze up.  Hard to splash on a rock.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-12910\/IMG7860\/1120814903_MrZ98-S.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><br \/>\nI pour steaming hot water in it in the morning so they have something to drink.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed getting to know Vivian Wallace from Peace Baptist Church.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-12910\/IMG7853\/1120815494_WdFuV-S.jpg\" alt=\"v\" \/><br \/>\nI took her to a couple of the apartment complexes in Clarkston and met with my partner Bennett Ekandem.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-12910\/IMG7854\/1120815642_fnzLD-S.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been really sick.  Glad he&#8217;s doing better!<br \/>\nThen over to Madina for some roast goat and chicken &#8220;chop chop.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-12910\/IMG7859\/1120815942_F2gtw-S.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-12910\/IMG7857\/1120815857_6Pe3J-S.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><br \/>\nI always enjoy speaking Swahili to some of the folks who go there.  A couple were from Senegal.  Whipped some French on them.  Fun!<\/p>\n<p>Ashley took her last final today of the semester.  I know she&#8217;s happy about that!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-12910\/IMG7855\/1120815717_Dp2d2-S.jpg\" alt=\"a\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Came home and did some admin duties before going to Chamblee to work with the kids at the mission.  Kathy and Ashley both came to help.  Awesome!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been teaching the kids how to count money.  They like using the dry erase boards to learn.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-12910\/IMG7861\/1120814825_d8wqn-S.jpg\" alt=\"r\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-12910\/IMG7862\/1120814837_kV5m7-S.jpg\" alt=\"e\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Angel is one of my favorite kids. He&#8217;s a wild one, but a sweetheart.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-12910\/IMG7863\/1120814973_Zg7gP-S.jpg\" alt=\"a\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all learning at the mission!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-12910\/IMG7865\/1120815034_SMVuK-S.jpg\" alt=\"j\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We got finished pretty quickly so I played with the kids outside for awhile.  <\/p>\n<p>They like racing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-12910\/IMG7867\/1120815258_gBURc-S.jpg\" alt=\"r\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-12910\/IMG7868\/1120815446_6hbMz-S.jpg\" alt=\"a\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Traffic was bad coming home.  Welcome to Atlanta, baby!<\/p>\n<p>Admin duties again, then watch a movie with Kathy.  Excellent.<\/p>\n<p>I can always tell I&#8217;m in Clarkston because I see bumper stickers like this.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-12910\/IMG7858\/1120815917_gRcio-S.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, was it cold this morning! Yow! Water in my bird bath froze up. Hard to splash on a rock. I pour steaming hot water in it in the morning so they have something to drink. I enjoyed getting to know Vivian Wallace from Peace Baptist Church. I took her to a couple of the [&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\/2412"}],"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=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2413,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}