{"id":591,"date":"2009-02-10T21:14:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T01:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=591"},"modified":"2009-02-10T21:20:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T01:20:40","slug":"awesome-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Awesome meeting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a terrific time with some of my favorite partners today.<\/p>\n<p>I picked up Ruthie North and took her over to Vikhyat for Indian food.\u00a0Mrs. Patel showed Ruthie some of her cooking techniques. It was fun to see Ruthie&#8217;s excitement about learning new things.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/471513904_JWhat-M.jpg\" alt=\"p\" \/><br \/>\n Mr. Patel is from Nairobi.  I always enjoy talking Swahili with him! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/471513958_qpkV6-M.jpg\" alt=\"p2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We met with Cathy Palmer and her partner Kelly who helps her with the Refugee Sewing Society.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/471514020_wy3q9-M.jpg\" alt=\"cp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ruthie shared her testimony and thoughts on how the Sewing group might be even better.\u00a0 Cathy also talked about her journey getting here.\u00a0 It was a very moving experience for me to see a partner so happy about her ministry!<\/p>\n<p>The women went to Clarkston to meet with a couple of the refugee women.\u00a0 Ian (Ruthie&#8217;s husband) met up with me at Michaels.\u00a0 We bought more yarn for the ladies.<\/p>\n<p>We also went to visit with Pastor Phil Kitchin at Clarkston International Bible Church and with Bennett at Willow Branch.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/471514099_3Mai5-M.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><br \/>\nThe kids looked like they were really working hard!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/471514183_Ld5qU-M.jpg\" alt=\"w\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/471514142_jpF95-M.jpg\" alt=\"w2\" \/><br \/>\nAlways great to hang out with partners!<\/p>\n<p>I dropped Ian back off at his mission at Huntington Creek and I went to Azalea to check on my kids.  I had a bike for Stephanie.  She wasn&#8217;t at home. The Bengali boys were enjoying the basketball goal I brought over. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/471514294_byLLw-M.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a terrific time with some of my favorite partners today. I picked up Ruthie North and took her over to Vikhyat for Indian food.\u00a0Mrs. Patel showed Ruthie some of her cooking techniques. It was fun to see Ruthie&#8217;s excitement about learning new things. Mr. Patel is from Nairobi. I always enjoy talking Swahili [&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\/591"}],"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=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}