{"id":7753,"date":"2015-09-22T14:58:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T18:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=7753"},"modified":"2015-09-22T22:26:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T02:26:18","slug":"birmingham-recon-newsletters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=7753","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Recon! Newsletters!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning, Ashley and I went on safari to Birmingham, AL!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Partners\/Birmingham-Recon-92115\/i-7LkDFSX\/0\/M\/IMG_2275-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our good friend Ben Birdsong from Meadowbrook Baptist Church helped organize a group of Youth Directors, seminary students and a choir director to come to a lunch to hear Ashley and I promote coming to Atlanta!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Partners\/Birmingham-Recon-92115\/i-7BmdXQ7\/0\/M\/IMG_2273-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We always have fun!<\/p>\n<p>Ashley did her usual fabulous job of creating a slide show for the presentation and goody bags for each of the participants.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Partners\/Birmingham-Recon-92115\/i-PkrKv8z\/0\/M\/IMG_2255-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also gave one lucky winner and Ben a $50 gift card for Amazon.  The BBQ and the gift resulted in 17 people coming to hear us do our thing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Partners\/Birmingham-Recon-92115\/i-8qCq89j\/0\/M\/IMG_2278-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We traveled nearly 400 miles yesterday.   I&#8217;m glad it was cheap gas!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Partners\/Birmingham-Recon-92115\/i-Fh7VZNR\/0\/M\/IMG_2279-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nGot in late, but still enjoyed supper with Kathy and Jesse. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Partners\/Birmingham-Recon-92115\/i-nLLmGM7\/0\/M\/IMG_2295-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>J&#8217;s car battery was acting up, so I went by Azalea after dropping Ashley off to go get his car started.  It&#8217;s at our mechanics now.  Hopefully, it&#8217;ll be done today.<\/p>\n<p>It was great to see Miles last night!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Partners\/Birmingham-Recon-92115\/i-KZMC8Nr\/0\/M\/IMG_2293-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday morning I worked on producing my newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>About half way through the job, the uninterrupted power supply interrupted me with an incessant beeping.  That indicates that the battery is dead.  Sadly, I just bought the device about three months ago.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-92215-and-Newsletter\/i-dFfwhmb\/0\/M\/IMG_2297-M.jpg\" alt=\"e\" \/><br \/>\nI had to go Walmart to get a new one.  I&#8217;m sure Amazon will take care of me somehow, although it&#8217;s hard to mail those back&#8211;it has lithium ion batteries and those can&#8217;t be shipped by air.<\/p>\n<p>Also printed up the labels.  Had to go back by Walmart and Office Depot to pick up more supplies.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-92215-and-Newsletter\/i-BZnr5qk\/0\/M\/IMG_2300-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nMailed the dvds I burned to the teams from this weekend.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-92215-and-Newsletter\/i-VFmMPBH\/0\/M\/IMG_2301-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And to the Post Office for, you guessed it, stamps!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-92215-and-Newsletter\/i-b32gPvV\/0\/M\/IMG_2299-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cleaned the fish tank and sorted out my bird feeders this afternoon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-92215-and-Newsletter\/i-zKvfwvH\/0\/M\/IMG_2302-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-92215-and-Newsletter\/i-rdFLv97\/0\/X2\/IMG_2298-X2.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nTrying to get everything together as best as possible for the two weeks I&#8217;m gone to Peru.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, Jesse and my friend Anthony Jacquin do a recording on Tuesdays, but it didn&#8217;t work out today.<\/p>\n<p>Worked on the newsletters with the kids at the mission and helped them with their homework.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-92215-and-Newsletter\/i-ZRhnbwG\/0\/M\/IMG_2305-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-92215-and-Newsletter\/i-S7LKgcK\/0\/M\/IMG_2307-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gas went under $2.00 at my QT.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-92215-and-Newsletter\/i-pVkC4tg\/0\/M\/IMG_2296-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We saw this on the back of truck on the way back to the ATL.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Partners\/Birmingham-Recon-92115\/i-43v8fj5\/0\/M\/IMG_2280-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Partners\/Birmingham-Recon-92115\/i-MS7KzVj\/0\/M\/IMG_2282-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The clouds were phenomenal.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Partners\/Birmingham-Recon-92115\/i-F7wm3vx\/0\/M\/IMG_2289-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wonder what rides on these?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-92215-and-Newsletter\/i-5TNhrg7\/0\/M\/IMG_2303-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning, Ashley and I went on safari to Birmingham, AL! Our good friend Ben Birdsong from Meadowbrook Baptist Church helped organize a group of Youth Directors, seminary students and a choir director to come to a lunch to hear Ashley and I promote coming to Atlanta! We always have fun! Ashley did her usual [&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\/7753"}],"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=7753"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7759,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753\/revisions\/7759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}