{"id":631,"date":"2009-03-26T23:18:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T03:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2009-03-26T23:18:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T03:18:16","slug":"pastors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=631","title":{"rendered":"Pastors!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I got up early and started working on writing my newsletters to our supporters.\u00a0 It’s a weigh of life!<\/p>\n

Best thing about today was that Ashley was with me!\u00a0 Jesse was still feeling sick.\u00a0 Kathy took him to the doctor this afternoon.\u00a0 They were both feeling bad.\u00a0 Our doctor put them on antibiotics.\u00a0 Pray that they’ll feel better soon!<\/p>\n

Our first assignment was a Clarkston International Bible Church where we met with a group of International Pastors and leaders that meet at the church.\u00a0
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\nDr. Jerry Baker of the Georgia Baptist Convention’s language missions department made a presentation to explain to them how they could become a Baptist church.<\/p>\n

It was interesting to help clarify to these Pastors what being a Baptist is all about.<\/p>\n

My partner Ruthie North made a delicious lunch of curried rice for us and also explained our new ministry of jewelry making to help support the Pastor’s wives.\u00a0 Being a refugee is hard enough, trying to also be a church leader is even more demanding.\u00a0 Pray that Refugee Beads will help the pastor’s families raise the support they need to pay their bills.<\/p>\n

Ruthie will also be working with other women in the community, but we’re trying to be help the Pastors and their leaders first.\u00a0 I’ve learned over time that when the church loses their leaders they tend to collapse.\u00a0 This is especially true with small churches made up of immigrants.\u00a0 They don’t have a long tradition in this country or in their church to help them hold together.<\/p>\n

After our meeting, Ashley and I went over to see one of my best partners, Clatie Lewis who works with the ministry Reboot.\u00a0
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\n We needed to get a computer for another of our missionary leaders, Bayo Otiti from Nigeria.\u00a0 We picked up a refurbished computer from Clatie and took it over to Bayo’s house to set up.\u00a0
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\n We got it running, but couldn’t get the interet to work properly.\u00a0 That didn’t really surprise me.\u00a0 Normally, you have to have a tech person from the company to set it up the first time.\u00a0 The program said that it wasn’t connected properly, which I’m sure it was.<\/p>\n

Could be a cable problem, or a modem problem.\u00a0 That’s why they have installation guys!<\/p>\n

Bayo was so grateful.\u00a0 I’m glad we could help!<\/p>\n

Then over to the bank to get some money for Ruthie to get more beads for her ladies.\u00a0 When we first start a ministry we have to invest money to get it off the ground.\u00a0 Over time, it becomes self supporting.\u00a0 But at first it’s still a fragile baby!\u00a0 I feel confident that soon this will be a vibrant ministry that will really help families!<\/p>\n

Ash and I went over to Azalea to check on the kids.\u00a0 It’s been raining all days.\u00a0 Weather plays into weather the kids get out much.\u00a0 We saw a few of them, made sure that they were ok then went on over to FBC Doraville.<\/p>\n

We stored the monitors that we got from Clatie and the repaired computers one of the church rooms.\u00a0 Soon we’ll put them in one of the missions or give them to a needy family!<\/p>\n

We took some dyes that I had in that room over to Huntington Creek for Ruthie and the ladies.\u00a0 They may use them to make some t-shirts to help promote the new ministry.<\/p>\n

Came on back to Stone Mountain, picked up Ashley’s car that had gotten a fresh oil change and to the Post Office to drop off the letters that we had written.<\/p>\n

Fun day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning I got up early and started working on writing my newsletters to our supporters.\u00a0 It’s a weigh of life! Best thing about today was that Ashley was with me!\u00a0 Jesse was still feeling sick.\u00a0 Kathy took him to the doctor this afternoon.\u00a0 They were both feeling bad.\u00a0 Our doctor put them on antibiotics.\u00a0 […]<\/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\/631"}],"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=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}