{"id":536,"date":"2008-12-02T22:58:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T02:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=536"},"modified":"2008-12-02T23:16:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T03:16:05","slug":"coats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"Coats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the worst things about really cold weather is the thought of people who don&#8217;t have the clothes they need.<\/p>\n<p>I can remember working with the taxi drivers in Doraville.\u00a0 It was absolutely freezing cold.\u00a0 I saw this homeless guy walking down the sidewalk.\u00a0 The dude had no shoes on!\u00a0 I went over and talked to him about it.\u00a0 &#8220;Where you staying, man?&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;See that car over there?&#8221; He pointed across the street.\u00a0 &#8220;Yeah.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;I sleep under it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll never forget that night.\u00a0 I gave him a blanket, some socks and old shoes and the rest of the food I had in the car.\u00a0 He promised me he would go to a shelter, but I never knew if he went or not.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re working on getting coats for the refugees in Clarkston.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been in contact with my partners at St. Vincent de Paul.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/429272425_SDq7F-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nToday I went by to see the director of the clothing distribution center.\u00a0 Jane was super helpful and I&#8217;m optimistic that we&#8217;ll be able to get the ladies from the &#8220;Mommy and Me&#8221; program over the center for help.<\/p>\n<p>I went to lunch with Ashley and Jesse.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/429272293_Rhquk-M.jpg\" alt=\"a\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been feeling slightly under the weather.\u00a0 Throat a bit scratchy.\u00a0 Not my usual 10+ on the energy scale.\u00a0 Kathy has been sick for weeks.\u00a0 She&#8217;s around sick babies a lot in Clarkston.\u00a0 Pray that I&#8217;ll throw off the germs so I can get back to my tiger tank self!<\/p>\n<p>I went over to Azalea this afternoon to check on the kids.\u00a0 I helped Johan cut out numbers from magazines.\u00a0 Also taught Clinton how to do lowest common denominator math.  Also made the kids some origami animals.  They had fun, me too!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/429272737_Ed9jv-M.jpg\" alt=\"o\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/429272832_KTbqZ-M.jpg\" alt=\"oo\" \/><br \/>\nCame on home and went to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the worst things about really cold weather is the thought of people who don&#8217;t have the clothes they need. I can remember working with the taxi drivers in Doraville.\u00a0 It was absolutely freezing cold.\u00a0 I saw this homeless guy walking down the sidewalk.\u00a0 The dude had no shoes on!\u00a0 I went over and [&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\/536"}],"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=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}