{"id":613,"date":"2009-03-06T00:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=613"},"modified":"2009-03-06T01:15:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T05:15:55","slug":"marco-mario-eduardo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"Marco! Mario! Eduardo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a fun time today!<\/p>\n<p>Got up really early (if it&#8217;s dark, it&#8217;s early!).\u00a0 I spoke at my Dr. Carl Barrington&#8217;s missions class at Providence Christian Academy.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/485940681_bxF7U-M.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/485940891_VCKvM-M.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/485940828_buevb-M.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/485940731_vYbBc-M.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><br \/>\nI went at those kids full blast for two 90 minute sessions.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 My voice was whipped after that!<\/p>\n<p>The class was responsive and hopefully we&#8217;ll have some of them get engaged at the mission.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, Thursday is my favorite day of the week because Ashley and Jesse roll with me.\u00a0 Didn&#8217;t make them get up and go with me this morning. Too early.<\/p>\n<p>After Providence, I went to Goodwill to pick up some new T-shirts.\u00a0 Got some pretty cool ones, including one with the Taj Mahal.\u00a0 Groovy, baby.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/485940945_m7GyK-M.jpg\" alt=\"g\" \/><br \/>\nThen to FBC Doraville to meet with Marco Solano from Stonemill Church (I consider him my older brother), Mario Amoretti (the youth director from Sunrise BC&#8217;s Spanish congregation, and Eduardo and Sheila Zamora (our missionaries living at Huntington Ridge.)\u00a0<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/485941052_6qz2e-M.jpg\" alt=\"e\" \/><br \/>\nWe had a fun lunch and I enjoyed getting these folks to know each other a little better.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of what I do is networking field operatives.\u00a0 I can tell right quick if a person really wants to work or just wants to talk.\u00a0 It&#8217;s valuable to get the doers together and the talkers away from my team. We don&#8217;t have time to just talk.\u00a0 So many people equate talking about the problem with DOING something about the problem! Drives me crazy.<\/p>\n<p>We also loaded Eduardo up with a bunch of stuff that we can give away to the people who come to the party on Saturday at Huntington Ridge.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/485940984_PewzY-M.jpg\" alt=\"e\" \/><br \/>\n I hate storing stuff.\u00a0 Much rather give it away and tell them about Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Mario and I spent some extra time together talking about missions and helping clarify how he can get his church involved in the mission near his church in Lawrenceville.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a super excited fellow.\u00a0 We get along GREAT!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/485941117_wurEh-M.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><br \/>\nMario also came over to Azalea to help with the kids at the mission.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/485941212_HRYQp-M.jpg\" alt=\"a\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/485941283_GM2av-M.jpg\" alt=\"j\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/485941349_hJGpn-M.jpg\" alt=\"j\" \/><br \/>\n Just seeing what I do helped him to catch a vision for what&#8217;s possible over at Olde Salem.<\/p>\n<p>Came home, got Kathy and we went to watch the sun set in the El Torerro&#8217;s parking lot in Stone Mountain.\u00a0 It was veddy, veddy beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Just finished watching Burn Notice, my favorite show.\u00a0 GREAT season finale! Smooth is smooth, baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a fun time today! Got up really early (if it&#8217;s dark, it&#8217;s early!).\u00a0 I spoke at my Dr. Carl Barrington&#8217;s missions class at Providence Christian Academy. I went at those kids full blast for two 90 minute sessions.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 My voice was whipped after that! The class was responsive and hopefully we&#8217;ll have some [&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\/613"}],"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=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}