{"id":615,"date":"2009-03-07T18:48:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T22:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=615"},"modified":"2009-03-08T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T20:00:23","slug":"conference-and-block-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"Conference and Block Parties!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning Ashley went with me to speak at a conference hosted by the Gwinnett Leadership Institute.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/486787281_kxqkf-M.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><br \/>\n I was told to be there at 10am.\u00a0 I was scheduled instead to speak at 11:20!\u00a0 I immediately had a bad attitude.\u00a0 There was a HUGE number of seminars.\u00a0 For instance, in my time slot there were TWENTY NINE seminars.\u00a0 That is complete crazy talk.\u00a0 They probably had about forty people come to the event in total, everyone else were speakers!\u00a0 I had three people in my class, plus two volunteers and Ashley.\u00a0 I had fun with them and I think I taught them something valuable.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure there were many presenters who had NO ONE come to their class.<\/p>\n<p>I left the conference and went to Huntington Ridge where my partners from Dunwoody Baptist Church hosted an Outreach Event.\u00a0 There were also volunteers from Iglesia Baptista Belen to help.\u00a0 It was very well attended and I thought it went great.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/486790320_7Qu65-M.jpg\" alt=\"h\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/486798010_XxgXT-M.jpg\" alt=\"h\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/486801967_xKsKB-M.jpg\" alt=\"d\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/486802647_AvPuL-M.jpg\" alt=\"h\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/486798693_eJKRw-M.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/486791122_rvEjx-M.jpg\" alt=\"e\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then we went over to Huntington Creek to drop off the canopy I&#8217;d purchased for Ian and Ruthie North.\u00a0 I met up with them at Asian Square then we went back to HC where we had an event with the kids on planting seeds.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/486804335_jucsF-M.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/486803120_iHKrw-M.jpg\" alt=\"i\" \/><br \/>\nI thought the kids really enjoyed that too.\u00a0 It was great to see Ruthie&#8217;s whole family there.\u00a0 It was her birthday yesterday!\u00a0 Pray for her!<\/p>\n<p>Came back home to plow through my email, blogs and check up on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy and her sister went to S. Carolina to visit their cousin today.\u00a0 Pray she&#8217;ll have a safe trip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning Ashley went with me to speak at a conference hosted by the Gwinnett Leadership Institute.\u00a0 I was told to be there at 10am.\u00a0 I was scheduled instead to speak at 11:20!\u00a0 I immediately had a bad attitude.\u00a0 There was a HUGE number of seminars.\u00a0 For instance, in my time slot there were TWENTY [&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\/615"}],"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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}