{"id":583,"date":"2009-02-02T19:54:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T23:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2009-02-02T20:23:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T00:23:27","slug":"bruce-on-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"Bruce on Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I had a fun time with a new partner:\u00a0 Bruce Mewbourne from Eagle&#8217;s Landing Baptist Church in McDonough.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/466640069_NCQtM-M.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve known Bruce for years but looks like we&#8217;ll finally have a chance to mobilize people together!<\/p>\n<p>I picked him up from my office at FBC Doraville and we went over to meet with one of my favorite partners, Cathy Palmer.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/466639452_7AsQg-M.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/466639492_rn9e5-M.jpg\" alt=\"r\" \/><br \/>\n She&#8217;s been doing an awesome job with her Refugee Sewing Society.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/466639684_Gnpvc-M.jpg\" alt=\"r\" \/><br \/>\n She needed some materials for her ministry so I wanted to see what was going on and what exactly I should pick up.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always fun to go to Clarkston and see the world!\u00a0 We met people from Nepal, Bhutan, Liberia and Somalia to mention just a few.\u00a0 It&#8217;s cool to see all the different people God has us working with.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/466639530_FJvJ8-M.jpg\" alt=\"rr\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/466639728_qBD5j-M.jpg\" alt=\"r\" \/><br \/>\nI took Bruce to eat roast goat at al Madina, my favorite East African restaurant.\u00a0 Then we went for a tour of the International Village in Chamblee and Doraville.\u00a0 I took him to see the Asian market, Phuc Loc Tho&#8211;where they sell idols, one of the Chinese herbal doctors (who took a real interest in Bruce!) and the Spanish market.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/466639898_PBomU-M.jpg\" alt=\"d\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/466639824_hwj8y-M.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/466639866_5GLVr-M.jpg\" alt=\"e\" \/><br \/>\n I have a good time hosting guests through &#8220;my&#8221; neighborhood!<\/p>\n<p>We went to check on Azalea to see how Bill was doing painting the mission.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/466639981_kQ4BN-M.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><br \/>\n His work is always excellent.\u00a0 It&#8217;s his last week with us.\u00a0 It was rainy, so there weren&#8217;t many kids, which was fine since the paint was still wet!<\/p>\n<p>Jesse and I also went over to Hamptons at Lenox to pay our water bill. I got a good report about our women&#8217;s work from the manager.\u00a0 That&#8217;s awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Thank the Lord for the rain!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I had a fun time with a new partner:\u00a0 Bruce Mewbourne from Eagle&#8217;s Landing Baptist Church in McDonough. I&#8217;ve known Bruce for years but looks like we&#8217;ll finally have a chance to mobilize people together! I picked him up from my office at FBC Doraville and we went over to meet with one [&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\/583"}],"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=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}