{"id":8,"date":"2007-01-09T13:59:31","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T20:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2007-01-09T13:59:31","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T20:59:31","slug":"8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windy day here in Atlanta.\u00a0 Nearly blows my hat off my old bald head.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to track down a scrapbook for one of the kids at the mission to use in his class.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think these teachers have any idea how hard it is to find stuff like that.\u00a0 I finally found something I think he can use.\u00a0 It&#8217;s amazing how long it takes to do &#8220;easy&#8221; jobs.<\/p>\n<p>I had such a happy thing happen yesterday.\u00a0 For about 6 months I thought I&#8217;d lost the first year of the Outreach Updates that our ministry put out.\u00a0 I was so discouraged about losing something that I thought was very valuable&#8211;at least from an emotional point of view.\u00a0 I told Jesse, &#8220;It&#8217;s somewhere safe.\u00a0 So safe, I can&#8217;t even get at it.&#8221;\u00a0 I started looking in the safest places possible and I found them!\u00a0 They were in another binder with web site stuff.\u00a0 PTL!\u00a0 I bought some new binders today so I can separate the years and keep them safe and sound.<\/p>\n<p>I consider myself a really organized person.\u00a0 My confidence is shaken when I lose something like that.\u00a0 Much better now.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse and I worked on the web site for hours last night.\u00a0 We&#8217;re still going through the www.whirlwindmissions.org\u00a0 site with a fine tooth comb.\u00a0 Yesterday we organized the buttons and started working on a new blog site.\u00a0 Eventually, the blog will be located on our site rather than Xanga.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll let everyone know when it moves.<\/p>\n<p>Special props to the folks who SUBSCRIBE to this effort!\u00a0 I really appreciate you guys the most.\u00a0 Do you know how to do RSS stuff?\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t know what it stands for, you probably don&#8217;t.\u00a0 Jesse is always encouraging me to use the best methods of distribution and he swears RSS is the way to go.\u00a0 When we roll it out, we&#8217;ll include simple instructions on how to do it.\u00a0 Then it&#8217;ll be &#8220;goodbye Xanga.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jesse and I also figured out how to do a Donation page on our web site.\u00a0 We linked it to the NAMB site for donations.\u00a0 Now on our web site you can click on &#8220;To Donate&#8221; it&#8217;ll take you directly to the page associated with our ministry and you can use your visa card to set it up regularly or a one time gift.\u00a0 Pretty slick.<\/p>\n<p>I need to go over to Azalea to give the kids the stuff I tracked down for them.<\/p>\n<p>Pray for my Bengali kids at the mission.\u00a0 There were at least 15 yesterday, all playing together, chatting in Bengali.<\/p>\n<p>Worked out hard on weights this morning.\u00a0 Feeling good.<\/p>\n<p>Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windy day here in Atlanta.\u00a0 Nearly blows my hat off my old bald head. I&#8217;ve been trying to track down a scrapbook for one of the kids at the mission to use in his class.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think these teachers have any idea how hard it is to find stuff like that.\u00a0 I finally found [&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\/8"}],"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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}