{"id":2759,"date":"2011-04-16T20:28:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T00:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2011-04-16T20:29:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T00:29:47","slug":"easter-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=2759","title":{"rendered":"Easter Outreach!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up with my favorite bird tapping on the tree outside my window.  Awesome!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Easter-at-Azalea-2011\/i-6mDRG4L\/0\/S\/img_3073-S.jpg\" alt=\"w\" \/><br \/>\nPileated Woodpecker.  About the size of a crow!<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain last night.  About 1 1\/4&#8243;.  Excellent!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Easter-at-Azalea-2011\/i-rXqSbQQ\/0\/S\/img_3075-S.jpg\" alt=\"r\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Worked till about 1am last night.  Finished up my bi-weekly financial report.  Turned that into my treasurer this morning.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Easter-at-Azalea-2011\/i-hF9JP5C\/0\/S\/img_3076-S.jpg\" alt=\"r\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Took Jesse out to eat for breakfast.  Can you tell where we went?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Easter-at-Azalea-2011\/i-TDsJp7M\/0\/S\/img_3077-S.jpg\" alt=\"w\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ashley is working with Foothills Community Church this weekend.  She took a team from there around the International Village this morning.  I took her to eat lunch to Penang Restaurant.  I was still full of waffles.<\/p>\n<p>She loved the mango smoothie.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Easter-at-Azalea-2011\/i-cLTm5FD\/0\/S\/img_3080-S.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I liked the signage on this box.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Easter-at-Azalea-2011\/i-snsBxB6\/0\/S\/img_3078-S.jpg\" alt=\"e\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Never too much Ashley!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Easter-at-Azalea-2011\/i-L2gnjfR\/0\/S\/img_3083-S.jpg\" alt=\"a\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We met up with the group from 12 Stone church who has been helping us at our missions in Chamblee.  Terrific group!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Easter-at-Azalea-2011\/i-NGjkbk6\/0\/S\/img_3089-S.jpg\" alt=\"12\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Had a fun day today with my kids at Azalea!<\/p>\n<p>Jesse and Ashley helped me with the outreach.  Don&#8217;t get no better!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Easter-at-Azalea-2011\/i-VsZjGfQ\/0\/S\/img_3085-S.jpg\" alt=\"j\" \/><br \/>\nWe tossed eggs.  Collected eggs.  Tossed eggs.  Collected eggs.  Little kids tossed eggs, collected eggs.  Big kids tossed eggs, collected eggs.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Easter-at-Azalea-2011\/i-Jq9KqJj\/0\/S\/img_3101-S.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Easter-at-Azalea-2011\/i-Sb5VdPv\/0\/S\/img_3113-S.jpg\" alt=\"v\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Easter-at-Azalea-2011\/i-R4pW5Mt\/0\/S\/img_3117-S.jpg\" alt=\"e\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You get the drift.  We really don&#8217;t &#8220;hide&#8221; eggs per se.  Just run around picking them up!<\/p>\n<p>Then I gathered everyone up and shared the story of Easter and why Jesus had to come and die for us to take away our sins.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Easter-at-Azalea-2011\/i-NHXsJBH\/0\/S\/img_3130-S.jpg\" alt=\"k\" \/><br \/>\nMany of the kids prayed along with me as we talked to Jesus and thanked Him for what he&#8217;d done for us!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Easter-at-Azalea-2011\/i-66VpMGt\/0\/S\/img_3131-S.jpg\" alt=\"f\" \/><br \/>\nThe Muslim mothers seemed a bit uncomfortable with what I was saying, but overall seemed to have an good attitude about it.  Thanks for your prayers for that!<\/p>\n<p>We went to a &#8220;My Favorite Place&#8221; which is a flea market in Chamblee today.  I got a really cool globe which is solid and has inlaid stones marking each country.  An amazing antique!<\/p>\n<p>Looked like Santa had too much egg nog!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Easter-at-Azalea-2011\/i-5StmzVj\/0\/S\/img_3086-S.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I picked up a couple of pictures from the late 1890&#8217;s for $1!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Easter-at-Azalea-2011\/i-6xRj5wQ\/0\/S\/img_3087-S.jpg\" alt=\"v\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Easter-at-Azalea-2011\/i-FthtZFL\/0\/S\/img_3088-S.jpg\" alt=\"p\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jesse picked up a framed Egyptian art piece that is handpainted on papyrus paper.  Groovy!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Easter-at-Azalea-2011\/i-HMkK5Ct\/0\/S\/img_3132-S.jpg\" alt=\"j\" \/><br \/>\nFortunately, I wasn&#8217;t too sore from the wood chip pile hauling yesterday!  Of course we only did about 10% of it!<\/p>\n<p>Kathy and I are going to visit Savannah\/Tybee Island for a few days.  Sure am glad to get to spend some extra time with her!  I&#8217;ve learned I have to take a break whenever work slows down.  It doesn&#8217;t stay like that for long!<\/p>\n<p>Great day!<\/p>\n<p>I liked this.  I think I&#8217;m this to a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Easter-at-Azalea-2011\/i-CG2G7P8\/0\/S\/img_3084-S.jpg\" alt=\"h\" \/><br \/>\nI could also be the cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up with my favorite bird tapping on the tree outside my window. Awesome! Pileated Woodpecker. About the size of a crow! Heavy rain last night. About 1 1\/4&#8243;. Excellent! Worked till about 1am last night. Finished up my bi-weekly financial report. Turned that into my treasurer this morning. Took Jesse out to eat for [&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\/2759"}],"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=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}