{"id":466,"date":"2008-09-13T00:39:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T04:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=466"},"modified":"2008-09-13T00:41:44","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T04:41:44","slug":"falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Falls!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last two days have been super busy!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I had Ashley and Jesse with me.\u00a0 EXCELLENT! We did a recon of the area near the Gwinnett Place Mall for the Compassion in Action weekend.\u00a0 I set up a new mission at the FALLS.\u00a0 I&#8217;m excited about that.\u00a0 Tito&#8217;s church has been working over there along with my partners from Apartment Life.<\/p>\n<p>Also talked to the management at Summer Trees.\u00a0 That place is super fancy.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not optimistic about them letting us in, but maybe!<\/p>\n<p>We went shopping for supplies I needed at Azalea Mission.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/371337532_nRhML-M.jpg\" alt=\"j\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/371337551_97JGw-M.jpg\" alt=\"a\" \/><br \/>\nI cleaned the place while Ashley helped kids with homework and Jesse was teaching them how to play chess.\u00a0 We had fun!\u00a0 Although I sure did clean up some nasty stuff.\u00a0 Man, those kids can get a place dirty!<\/p>\n<p>This morning I went to the North American Mission Board where I made my presentation to the recently appointed candidates!\u00a0 They&#8217;re always a good bunch.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/371337720_qzkrq-M.jpg\" alt=\"nb\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/371337700_ejERQ-M.jpg\" alt=\"n2\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/371337764_xkYHT-M.jpg\" alt=\"n3\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/371337652_fqFKz-M.jpg\" alt=\"n4\" \/><br \/>\nI was invited to come share at a conference in Washington DC.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see if that works out.\u00a0 I told them I&#8217;m into the field work aspect.\u00a0 I think the hands on approach is best.\u00a0 They like my somewhat irreverant style.<\/p>\n<p>Talked with my partner Keith Harrell about the car he picked up from one of his supporters.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/371337806_geSbb-M.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><br \/>\nI got Bill Hickey and we drove with Keith to Hapeville to get the title transferred to Whirlwind Missions and then transfer it to Bill.\u00a0 They were super efficient.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/371337859_JqXzo-M.jpg\" alt=\"b2\" \/><br \/>\nIt was a year ago this Monday that I first met Bill.\u00a0 He has really been a blessing to me.<\/p>\n<p>He told me, &#8220;I&#8217;ve lived my life just grinding along.\u00a0 Now I feel like I&#8217;m a part of something, that I&#8217;m really helping people.&#8221;\u00a0 You certainly do, Bill!<\/p>\n<p>Waded through about 100 messages this evening.\u00a0 I was too tired to do the computer last night.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s after midnight and I&#8217;ve got to do a presentation for the Gwinnett Leadership Institute Saturday morning.\u00a0 I&#8217;m talking about Communication.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to focus on how to\u00a0 achieve rapport with people and teach them how to do that better.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar is held at the Gwinnett Detention Center. Sure am glad J is out of that place!\u00a0 He is doing great!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last two days have been super busy! Yesterday, I had Ashley and Jesse with me.\u00a0 EXCELLENT! We did a recon of the area near the Gwinnett Place Mall for the Compassion in Action weekend.\u00a0 I set up a new mission at the FALLS.\u00a0 I&#8217;m excited about that.\u00a0 Tito&#8217;s church has been working over there [&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\/466"}],"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=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}