{"id":487,"date":"2008-10-06T21:49:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T01:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=487"},"modified":"2008-10-06T22:01:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T02:01:11","slug":"j-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"J Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always such fun to have my son with me!<\/p>\n<p>Jesse had an appointment with his Doctor today.\u00a0 Dr. Evans was very pleased with Jesse&#8217;s progress and told us to come back in three months! It&#8217;s been two months since his last visit.\u00a0 Looks promising!\u00a0 We still don&#8217;t know when\/if J will have a trial yet.\u00a0 Keep praying for his healing&#8211;it&#8217;s Working!<\/p>\n<p>We went to shoot pictures of the two new missions at Highland North and Highland at Sutton Place.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/388422904_7JxqJ-M.jpg\" alt=\"hn\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/388422768_va7YK-M.jpg\" alt=\"h\" \/><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s so much work to be done on Buford Highway.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be covering these two locations this Saturday with Impact Atlanta and First Baptist Church Atlanta.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll host Outreach Events in 25 locations this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I bought Jesse an acoustic guitar today.\u00a0 I get great deals on Alvarez guitars at Miller Music in Chamblee.\u00a0 It&#8217;s black.\u00a0 Looks like something Johnny Cash would play.<\/p>\n<p>We went over to Azalea to help the kids with their home work.\u00a0 Writing numbers in expanded form.\u00a0 Know how to do that?\u00a0 Uses powers of 10.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/388423794_HZjTe-M.jpg\" alt=\"j\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/388423746_S7Skm-M.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/388423704_teCEP-M.jpg\" alt=\"jo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also got to see Miguel.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a known gang banger who is trying to change his ways.\u00a0 He&#8217;s like a son to me.\u00a0 He recently graduated from high school with his GED.\u00a0 We gave him a gift card from Walmart to buy some new clothes.\u00a0Doesn&#8217;t he look better?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/388424056_KEBrh-M.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><br \/>\nHe has to get rid of all his gang colors.\u00a0 Cops still hassle him.\u00a0 No surprise really.\u00a0 Especially if he LOOKS like he&#8217;s in a gang.<\/p>\n<p>Remember Uncle Harold who came to visit me last week?\u00a0 We had such a great time with the Bengali family who lives above our mission at Azalea.\u00a0 I told them I&#8217;d see if I could get them a computer.\u00a0 This afternoon we took them one.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/388424868_5dgGa-M.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/388424956_eiBsa-M.jpg\" alt=\"b2\" \/><br \/>\nBill Hickey helped set it up and gave them a lesson on it.<\/p>\n<p>I was given some baby dolls last week that one of the dear ladies at FBC Doraville made for me.  It was fun to see the girl&#8217;s faces when they received their gift!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/388424580_AU4p2-M.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/388424437_Neqrj-M.jpg\" alt=\"b2\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/388424391_Y3Cht-M.jpg\" alt=\" b3\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/388424347_pzRUe-M.jpg\" alt=\"b4\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/388424217_xSHCb-M.jpg\" alt=\"b5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Came home and ran 4 miles.<\/p>\n<p>Pray for our new partners coming on board and that our missionaries will continue to work well together.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a challenge when we all have such strong personalities!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always such fun to have my son with me! Jesse had an appointment with his Doctor today.\u00a0 Dr. Evans was very pleased with Jesse&#8217;s progress and told us to come back in three months! It&#8217;s been two months since his last visit.\u00a0 Looks promising!\u00a0 We still don&#8217;t know when\/if J will have a trial [&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\/487"}],"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=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}