{"id":42,"date":"2007-03-16T21:11:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-17T04:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2007-03-16T21:11:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-17T04:11:13","slug":"42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"


Friday, March 16, 2007<\/span><\/p>\n

Rainy day today.<\/p>\n

Went for a 4 mile run while waiting for my internet connection to start working.\u00a0 I did a LOT of admin work today.\u00a0 Was out in the field almost the whole time on Thursday and didn’t get to do much office work.\u00a0 I actually was on my computer till nearly 1am this morning working on the Missionary of the Year recommendation for Bennett Ekandem to the North American Mission Board.\u00a0 He’s such a great partner and really deserves that recognition.\u00a0 I sure going to do everything in my power to make sure he receives it.<\/p>\n

Went to the book store with Ashley after she got out of school.\u00a0 I like to look for computer books for Jesse and business books that I think can be relevant to the ministry that we’re doing.\u00a0 I bought a couple of books specifically on Google applications.\u00a0 I am a big believer in technology–otherwise I wouldn’t spend the time working on blogs and web sites!<\/p>\n

Jesse and I re-worked out home page at www.whirlwindmissions.org.\u00a0 We streamlined the buttons and organized them more efficiently.<\/p>\n

This blog is also at www.whirlwindmissions.org.\u00a0 Eventually the Xanga blog will disappear and it’ll ONLY be found on our website.\u00a0 SO!\u00a0 Make sure you subscribe to the blog from OUR site soon!\u00a0 Just click on the RSS feed button.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t believe it, but Jesse pointed it out to me this afternoon.\u00a0 I’ve actually been doing this blog since May of 2004!\u00a0 All of the archives are now posted on our web site.<\/p>\n

No excuse not to have enough of Mr. Tim!<\/p>\n

It’s after midnight.\u00a0 Crash out time.\u00a0 Big day tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Peace.<\/p>\n


Thursday, March 15, 2007<\/span><\/p>\n

Went over to Springchase this morning to talk with Bennett and Marc and the manager of the property LaCheryl.\u00a0 I was very disappointed in the manager’s attitude.\u00a0 I don’t see how she can possibly last more than a year in that position with her uncaring attitude about “her” community.\u00a0 I was upset, but tried to be nice.\u00a0 Sometimes I really get sick of being nice.\u00a0 But the way I see it it’s her loss.\u00a0 We’re a Special Forces operation.\u00a0 We’re designed to be mobile.\u00a0 If we have to move, the Lord always opens another door.\u00a0 Kensington Station is wide open–four times the size and begging us to come.<\/p>\n

So we shake the dust off our sandals, and move on.\u00a0 As I told Marc and Ashley, we can feel good that when we had the door open at Springchase we went in full steam ahead, did the absolute best we could and made a difference in the community.\u00a0 As long as we have a feeling of urgency we’ll always succeed.<\/p>\n

I am not in Coast Mode.<\/p>\n

As I always tell potential new partners, “I don’t know what you’ve heard about Tim Cummins, but if you work with me things are going to HAPPEN–so if you’re in a talking mode, I prefer you don’t talk with me.”<\/p>\n

Fortunately, my next meeting was with Todd Harrison.\u00a0 He is one of our biggest supporters, always super up beat, excited about what the Lord is doing and has his finger on the pulse of getting things done.\u00a0 We had a great lunch, fired each other up (we’re both easily excitable!) and see the Father moving in BIG ways around this crazy city of ours.<\/p>\n

In the parking lot I had another future partner waiting for me, Nicholas Tea from Perimeter Church.\u00a0 Nicholas is an ex-Campus Crusade guy who did a lot of work with University students.\u00a0 He is definitely my kind of guy and we had a great time talking about our work in Atlanta.\u00a0 God has blessed Nicholas mightily and he now wants to get into buying apartment complexes.\u00a0 We have mutual friends who pointed him my direction.\u00a0 I cautioned him to be patient right now before getting into the apartment business–at least until we know what’s going to happen with the Latino community and this new anti-immigrant legislation that Georgia is getting ready to put into law come the summer.<\/p>\n

Then I went back to Azalea to take boxes of cookies and drinks (Thanks Todd and Pure Fun!) to the mission.\u00a0 We had a great time talking with my core group of young men who have been with me for nearly a decade.\u00a0 Many of them are now bigger than me!\u00a0 I love these guys like my own children.\u00a0 Fact of the matter is I probably spent more time with them than my own kids.<\/p>\n

Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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