{"id":636,"date":"2009-03-31T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=636"},"modified":"2009-04-01T09:30:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T13:30:34","slug":"yard-work-hard-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Yard Work = Hard Work!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thing about yard work is it never seems to be done!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying something new this year.\u00a0 Instead of gathering up all my leaves I&#8217;m trying to just mow them into little pieces.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/503018821_r8spw-M.jpg\" alt=\"y\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/503019026_jjkhg-M.jpg\" alt=\"yy\" \/><br \/>\nI read an article about how crazy it is to remove the leaves and then fertilize.\u00a0 The leaves WERE fertilizer.\u00a0 Of course they don&#8217;t look as good.<\/p>\n<p>Started me thinking about whether we already have what we need, maybe in a different form!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that we need new people in our churches that do outreach, as much as converting the &#8220;regular&#8221; members into a more dynamic form.<\/p>\n<p>Best thing was that I got the lawnmower to start!\u00a0 Even that will preach!<\/p>\n<p>Been doing a lot of research on the whole social marketing phenomenon.\u00a0 Do you have a Facebook page?\u00a0 Twitter?\u00a0 Post videos to YouTube?\u00a0 LinkedIn?<\/p>\n<p>I think that all these forms of connection need to be proactively used by the church!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/503019215_ixvvL-M.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><br \/>\nHad a fun morning with my kids.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad that Jesse is feeling better.\u00a0 He goes in for his oral surgery tomorrow.\u00a0 I find it wonderfully whimsical that he&#8217;s getting his Wisdom Teeth removed on April Fool&#8217;s day!\u00a0 Ark, ark!<\/p>\n<p>I took the kids to eat at Metro Cafe Diner.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/503019161_tiooj-M.jpg\" alt=\"a\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/503019112_rzpa4-M.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><br \/>\nFor dessert we had a piece of cake that was the size of Ashley&#8217;s head!<\/p>\n<p>Spent a couple of hours with the kids at Azalea.\u00a0 I thought we&#8217;d nearly finished all their homework yesterday.\u00a0 Joi and Mohasana came to the mission with a 20 page packet due tomorrow!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/503019329_DdGER-M.jpg\" alt=\"j\" \/><br \/>\nIt was a pre-CRCT test.\u00a0 These immigrant kids have a hard time with these standardized tests.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/503019370_ggEAX-M.jpg\" alt=\"m\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/503019605_xXHP4-M.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/503019432_kAWKj-M.jpg\" alt=\"tt\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I was a little Tim, I ate those tests up like candy.\u00a0 But my parents had Masters degrees and one was a teacher and I spoke English as my mother tongue.\u00a0 BIG difference.<\/p>\n<p>Pray that they&#8217;ll do well on the test.<\/p>\n<p>And now, for your viewing pleasure, another Story Tim!\u00a0 I this one I tell of my adventures riding buses in Nepal and India!<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Qh0-cETf6hU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Qh0-cETf6hU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thing about yard work is it never seems to be done! I&#8217;m trying something new this year.\u00a0 Instead of gathering up all my leaves I&#8217;m trying to just mow them into little pieces. I read an article about how crazy it is to remove the leaves and then fertilize.\u00a0 The leaves WERE fertilizer.\u00a0 Of course [&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\/636"}],"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=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}