Summer Program Prep!!!!

Cornelia and I spent Thursday and Friday getting ready for our summer mission work. We worked on plans for the mission kids and the preschool camp we do every year (Camp Discovery).

Thursday we cleaned up the mission...boy was it a mess. It has been a couple of months since we really cleaned up.

We tried to find some of our kids, but did not have much luck. The manager said they were on vacation. Not sure about that .

It's got be hard for 50 kids to go on vacation all at once. We are not worried we will track them down soon.

Tomorrow we will be working on the News Letter....yes it's that time again. We were very late getting the April update out last month. We are trying to get back on track this month. Thanks to all of you who support us with financial gifts and prayers! We sure do appreciate you all.

Much love to you all!!!

UNITE and Other Things

Its good to be back to blogging again. Sorry we have not updated in a while, but we look forward to getting back on track again.

Thursday Cornelia and I attended the Unite meeting. Unite is a gathering of evangelical Church's' combining for one common goal; to share the gospel with the lost.

Chip Sweeney of Perimeter Church heads up Unite. This month we were discussing Compassion in Action Weekend which happens in October. It will be one of the largest outreach events of the year in Metro Atlanta

We always enjoy learning and hearing what other Christian believers are doing in various denominations and organization's. It was good to see our partner Matt Johns there as well.

Last Saturday we tried to have an end of the school year party. Unfortunately due to heavy rain the kids just did not turn out. Mama was probably not to crazy about the lighting associated with the rain.

We did manage to have a small turnout. That's not a bad thing in our eyes. It gives us time to get closer to the kids that did come.

Please pray as we begin to transition into our summer program. We are seeing a lot of new kids begin to move in, but sadly some of our regulars are moving out of Villa Nueva and on to various other places.

We have been meeting with various churches in our area and plan to combine forces to run three consecutive weeks of back-yard-bible clubs beginning in two weeks. We are very proud to be partnering with the new Rockbridge Baptist Church. Our goal is to reach the community as co- partners with one common effort.


Sadly we had to say good by to a very good and faithful friend. Sam, our one year old retriever mix, suddenly became ill and passed away last Saturday just after we arrived home from the mission. We are not really sure what was wrong with him and it happened so fast that we did not have time to take him to the emergency hospital.

He was a good dog and we sure are going to miss him!

We Love You All!!!

Team Work!!!

Its really staggering how much the Lord really loves us. When Jesus said, "Oh, ye of little faith," He must have been speaking directly to me. As humans we have a natural built in ability to think that what we accomplish is driven by our own talents and abilities. But actually with out God's guidance and help we could not accomplish one single thing.

Yesterday I met up with Tim, Jesse, Terry and Ruthie and Ian North. We had a couple of cars donated to the ministry. I helped Tim figure out how to get to the DMV office. So all six of us rode over to Hapeville to transfer the titles of both cars from the previous owners to Whirlwind Missions. And then have a second transfer made to the missionaries that will actually be using the vehicles. Terry had a friend that donated a van to our ministry that she’s going to be able to use for her Burundian ladies, and the Norths will be using the other car for everyday transportation.

It is great to see how the Lord still provides even in bad economic conditions. The Lord never suffers from a bad economy... everything belongs to Him. To God be the glory.