{"id":520,"date":"2008-11-13T19:20:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T23:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2008-11-13T21:05:53","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T01:05:53","slug":"20-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"20!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Moley!\u00a0 Ashley&#8217;s 20!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/416523054_dN3cf-M.jpg\" alt=\"2\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/416523091_9ncwd-M.jpg\" alt=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nAmazing to me.\u00a0 I still think of her as my little girl.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe the price of gas! What a blessing!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/416472522_9Yhtt-M.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><br \/>\nAshley, Jesse and I picked up Miles at his house.\u00a0 His truck was getting tires so he had the day off. We went to Grace Fellowship Church to pick up Mark Casey&#8211;the new Missions Pastor.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/416472834_mGGy9-M.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><br \/>\nHe brought his friend along with him who&#8217;s been doing work in closed countries.\u00a0 We share many of the same people groups.\u00a0 I hope to gain better ways of doing things from him.<\/p>\n<p>We also met up with my partners from N. Metro Baptist Church.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/416472730_WXdr4-M.jpg\" alt=\"n\" \/><br \/>\nWe saw Steve Bullard who is the Senior Adult minister, John Carr who works with Middle School kids and Tim Kinnersly who is the Missions Pastor.<\/p>\n<p>PLUS my buddy Jon Lewis from 12 Stone Church.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/416472688_3JUuP-M.jpg\" alt=\"jl\" \/><br \/>\nWe met at the Green Tomato in Lawrenceville and talked about the mission opportunities in the area.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/416472606_HebPT-M.jpg\" alt=\"aj\" \/><br \/>\nAfter we ate, we went by to visit Olde Salem and Cherokee Courts apartments. Got to hang out with some of the families.<\/p>\n<p>One man shared how his back was hurting him and how he was going in for surgery next month.\u00a0 I joined some of our group around him and prayed for him.\u00a0 Afterwards he said, &#8220;Come.\u00a0 I want to show you something.&#8221;\u00a0 He motioned for us to go inside the clubhouse.\u00a0 I thought he was going to show us a power tool or something.\u00a0 So we come inside and he undoes the belt on his pants and drops them to the floor!<\/p>\n<p>He proceeds to point out areas on his leg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dis is where bullet come in leg.\u00a0 See?\u00a0 It come out here,&#8221; he sait pointing to the circular scar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And dis . . &#8221; He points to a scar the size of an orange on his inside thigh, &#8220;Dis is where grenade, how you say?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Frag grenade?&#8221; I asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes!\u00a0 Frag hit my leg.\u00a0 Tore this chunk right away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Man!\u00a0 You don&#8217;t hear that every day.<\/p>\n<p>The guys from N. Metro were very calm about it all.\u00a0 Cool.<\/p>\n<p>We left the missions in Lawrenceville and went to Perimeter Mall.  Ashley had an appointment with the guys in the Apple Store.  She needed some help on a couple of questions she had about the web sites she&#8217;s developed.  Got it all figured out!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m back home now.  Finished email.<\/p>\n<p>I can hear Jesse and Ashley (!) and Miles playing guitar above my room.  Dig that.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/416471727_bcCjs-M.jpg\" alt=\"j\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/416471446_v2es6-M.jpg\" alt=\"j\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Moley!\u00a0 Ashley&#8217;s 20! Amazing to me.\u00a0 I still think of her as my little girl. I can&#8217;t believe the price of gas! What a blessing! Ashley, Jesse and I picked up Miles at his house.\u00a0 His truck was getting tires so he had the day off. We went to Grace Fellowship Church to pick [&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\/520"}],"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=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}