{"id":7426,"date":"2015-06-25T20:12:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T00:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=7426"},"modified":"2015-06-25T22:37:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T02:37:35","slug":"dedication-rabbi-plaza-fiesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=7426","title":{"rendered":"Dedication! Rabbi! Plaza Fiesta!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flat tire as I went to work this morning.  I was able to inflate it yesterday and it held air all the way home.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/FBC-Lavaca-to-Plaza-Fiesta\/i-6wQ6M9b\/1\/M\/IMG_1313-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nDrove Big Red into town.  K&#8217;s car doesn&#8217;t have any AC.  Man, was it hot.  I felt like I was being slowly microwaved.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley and I had a great time briefing our team on Catholicism this morning. We completed our live recordings of the four days. The rough video looks really good.  It&#8217;s eight hours of material.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/FBC-Lavaca-to-Plaza-Fiesta\/i-h4Bkk33\/0\/M\/IMG_1315-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/FBC-Lavaca-to-Plaza-Fiesta\/i-kc2F4w5\/0\/M\/IMG_1324-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had been practicing my Hebrew and did the Aaronic blessing. <\/p>\n<p>It went really well.<\/p>\n<p>After the blessing, I anoint their forehead with Lily of the Valley oil from Jerusalem. In Hebrew, I quote Numbers 6:24 &#8220;Yeh va REh khe KHA AhdoNAI.  Vey YEESH meh reh KHA.&#8221;  May the Lord lift up his face to you.  May He bless you.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/FBC-Lavaca-to-Plaza-Fiesta\/i-P4cdmJ7\/0\/M\/IMG_4078-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nPeople seemed to really respond to it.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, wouldn&#8217;t you like to have YOUR head anointed with oil while someone is quoting a Hebrew blessing?<\/p>\n<p>I got a word from the Lord that I should use red string to remind people to pray.  Turns out that its an ancient Jewish tradition!  It&#8217;s supposed to be wrapped around the grave of Rachel.  Don&#8217;t know if we&#8217;ll do that, but perhaps I&#8217;ll soak it in the Frankincense and Myrrh oil that I got.  It&#8217;s also from Jerusalem.  <\/p>\n<p>I like the idea of making things that people can get emotionally involved with.<\/p>\n<p>After our Dedication Ceremonies, we went on a Cultural Safari to Plaza Fiesta!<\/p>\n<p>We saw our friend Tracy Powers from the Clarion Inn there.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/FBC-Lavaca-to-Plaza-Fiesta\/i-9jVnq5t\/0\/M\/IMG_1331-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nThe teams liked the food!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/FBC-Lavaca-to-Plaza-Fiesta\/i-3VqJ3HQ\/0\/M\/IMG_1332-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I left after lunch to go back home.  I needed to get Kathy to work and to get my tire fixed.<\/p>\n<p>Turned out it wasn&#8217;t reparable.  Got a new left rear.  About $112.  Not bad.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/FBC-Lavaca-to-Plaza-Fiesta\/i-KXKFp3p\/0\/M\/IMG_1339-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Came home to work on my newsletter and labels.<\/p>\n<p>Got those done.  It was more complicated than usual because I was dropping people I&#8217;d added three months ago from churches where I had spoken from our mailing list.  Got it figured out.<\/p>\n<p>K and I enjoyed supper together.  She&#8217;s resting now.<\/p>\n<p>Admin duties now.<\/p>\n<p>I thought this was funny.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/FBC-Lavaca-to-Plaza-Fiesta\/i-SCJfRbV\/0\/M\/IMG_1330-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flat tire as I went to work this morning. I was able to inflate it yesterday and it held air all the way home. Drove Big Red into town. K&#8217;s car doesn&#8217;t have any AC. Man, was it hot. I felt like I was being slowly microwaved. Ashley and I had a great time briefing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426"}],"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=7426"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7433,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426\/revisions\/7433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}