{"id":7527,"date":"2015-07-19T19:03:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T23:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=7527"},"modified":"2015-07-19T19:23:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T23:23:04","slug":"d-day-plaza-fiesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=7527","title":{"rendered":"D-Day!  Plaza Fiesta!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday evening the clouds were amazing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/Waterstoneplaza\/i-s9wJPZ4\/0\/M\/IMG_0202-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ashley and I had our Dedication Day with the teams from Birmingham today!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/Waterstoneplaza\/i-Mn5D6Pr\/0\/M\/IMG_0293-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was fun to give them the Golden Egg of EGGcellence!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/Waterstoneplaza\/i-pxS2zdq\/0\/M\/IMG_0217-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also gave them a copy of my book, Power Prayer.<\/p>\n<p>We had a great time singing and praising the Lord!<\/p>\n<p>Ash and I shared about Catholicism as it&#8217;s practiced by Mexicans and Central Americans.<\/p>\n<p>We pass the baton and say, &#8220;It&#8217;s up to ME!&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/Waterstoneplaza\/i-8sRmFnQ\/0\/M\/IMG_0299-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After our Heaven 11 prayer time, the teams turn in their cards of who they&#8217;ll be praying for, and then sign the Landing Pad.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/Waterstoneplaza\/i-JQmCtmq\/0\/M\/IMG_0310-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I give them the Aaronic Blessing in Hebrew and anoint their heads with oil from Jerusalem!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/Waterstoneplaza\/i-cMrcbzf\/0\/M\/IMG_0305-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then onto a Cultural Safari to Plaza Fiesta.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/Waterstoneplaza\/i-hTmfwFC\/0\/M\/IMG_0318-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nAsh and I bought a little blue sombrero to put on the Big Egg.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/Waterstoneplaza\/i-k7RgMcf\/0\/M\/IMG_0240-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I went by each of the missions to check on the teams and say goodbye.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/Waterstoneplaza\/i-ghzVRwF\/0\/M\/IMG_0257-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/Waterstoneplaza\/i-hPGVjhb\/0\/M\/IMG_0254-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/Waterstoneplaza\/i-d9fx6MQ\/0\/M\/IMG_0261-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a new thing Ash and I are doing:  decorating the Egg of EGGcellence.  Ay caramba!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/Waterstoneplaza\/i-BtzCg8s\/0\/M\/IMG_0315-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nAdmin duties now.<\/p>\n<p>I liked this sign.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/Waterstoneplaza\/i-xj54R8m\/0\/M\/IMG_0204-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nThis pattern of wallpaper caught my eye.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/Waterstoneplaza\/i-G6jCH86\/0\/M\/IMG_0206-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nCan you see the mural I was looking at?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/Waterstoneplaza\/i-dBK5wB2\/0\/M\/IMG_0207-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nStunning sunset!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Other-2\/Waterstoneplaza\/i-F6MP2Dj\/0\/M\/IMG_0211-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday evening the clouds were amazing. Ashley and I had our Dedication Day with the teams from Birmingham today! It was fun to give them the Golden Egg of EGGcellence! I also gave them a copy of my book, Power Prayer. We had a great time singing and praising the Lord! Ash and I shared [&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\/7527"}],"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=7527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7530,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527\/revisions\/7530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}