{"id":4953,"date":"2013-06-04T17:06:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T21:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2013-06-04T17:20:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T21:20:31","slug":"acccn-steve-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=4953","title":{"rendered":"ACCCN! Steve! Global!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filled up with gas before I met the teams.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other\/Summer-Flowers-2013\/i-8H626KS\/0\/M\/IMG_4796-M.jpg\" alt=\"d\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ashley and I had fun briefing our team from Atlanta Chinese Christian Church North this morning!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Teams2013\/ACCCN-at-AZ-2013\/i-sRvBHf6\/0\/M\/IMG_4803-M.jpg\" alt=\"a\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Teams2013\/ACCCN-at-AZ-2013\/i-JpvSFCf\/0\/M\/IMG_4806-M.jpg\" alt=\"g\" \/><br \/>\nWe talked about Islam and Hinduism.  Then took them to Global Mall.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Teams2013\/ACCCN-at-AZ-2013\/i-TzprqSh\/0\/M\/IMG_4813-M.jpg\" alt=\"p\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Teams2013\/ACCCN-at-AZ-2013\/i-hZfSG9m\/0\/M\/IMG_4814-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Teams2013\/ACCCN-at-AZ-2013\/i-KNBtG43\/0\/M\/IMG_4818-M.jpg\" alt=\"g\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They got a flavor of Islam from visiting Al Madina.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Teams2013\/ACCCN-at-AZ-2013\/i-Dp8TQ99\/0\/M\/IMG_4820-M.jpg\" alt=\"d\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Teams2013\/ACCCN-at-AZ-2013\/i-xcKWJ6m\/0\/M\/IMG_4823-M.jpg\" alt=\"d\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Teams2013\/ACCCN-at-AZ-2013\/i-46H2vLm\/0\/M\/IMG_4826-M.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Teams2013\/ACCCN-at-AZ-2013\/i-Zr3RN3j\/0\/M\/IMG_4827-M.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We met a new friend today from Knoxville, TN: Steve Alford.  He listened to our briefing then visited our two tour locations.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Teams2013\/ACCCN-at-AZ-2013\/i-dNTr8Rs\/0\/M\/IMG_4829-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had lunch at Al Madina then Ash and I took him around the International Village to give him a taste of what is to come. I always see something unusual at the Farmers Market.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Teams2013\/ACCCN-at-AZ-2013\/i-H58t2SQ\/0\/M\/IMG_4830-M.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got him a new hat at CD Tower.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Teams2013\/ACCCN-at-AZ-2013\/i-ZX2wsqn\/0\/M\/IMG_4831-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p> We also saw the four locations where his team will be serving.<\/p>\n<p>Came home to rest and work on admin duties.  I was pretty tired after running the 4.45 miles last night.  It&#8217;s harder to run when it&#8217;s hot!  But it sure is beautiful.  Here are pictures from my run.  I try to keep to the speed limit.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other\/Summer-Flowers-2013\/i-3zKP87W\/0\/M\/IMG_4767-M.jpg\" alt=\"e\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other\/Summer-Flowers-2013\/i-DvpzF8K\/0\/M\/IMG_4770-M.jpg\" alt=\"f\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other\/Summer-Flowers-2013\/i-ZzR2Fjf\/0\/M\/IMG_4775-M.jpg\" alt=\"f\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other\/Summer-Flowers-2013\/i-B4p5CVh\/0\/M\/IMG_4781-M.jpg\" alt=\"d\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of these flowers are tiny.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other\/Summer-Flowers-2013\/i-kWVVs8L\/0\/M\/IMG_4782-M.jpg\" alt=\"f\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What perfect lighting.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other\/Summer-Flowers-2013\/i-JR24458\/0\/M\/IMG_4790-M.jpg\" alt=\"f\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nature overtaking man.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other\/Summer-Flowers-2013\/i-WrcSg5S\/0\/M\/IMG_4766-M.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Summer time means Story Tim!  Here&#8217;s one of my favorite stories from my first 50 years on the planet.  Quess what visits me late one night!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x3dFbRVRX3M&#038;feature=player_embedded\">&#8220;Story Tim<\/a><br \/>\nhttpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x3dFbRVRX3M&#038;feature=player_embedded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filled up with gas before I met the teams. Ashley and I had fun briefing our team from Atlanta Chinese Christian Church North this morning! We talked about Islam and Hinduism. Then took them to Global Mall. They got a flavor of Islam from visiting Al Madina. We met a new friend today from Knoxville, [&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\/4953"}],"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=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4960,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions\/4960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}