Day Off

I took the day off yesterday to recoup. The past three weeks have been virtually non-stop. Nevertheless I still took time to work on a couple of ministry things. I met with Megan Faircloth. She is going to come on board to help with our after school homework program which we will start to advertise this Wednesday.
Kaitlyn and her friend Vanessa coaxed Cornelia and me into taking them to the Mall of Georgia. Shopping is one of my least favorite things to do...so you know I really love my daughter if she can get me to go shopping.

Late yesterday afternoon we also went and climbed Stone Mountain. Today I feel like I need to take another day off. Fat chance!!! My legs are a little sore , but the view was worth the climb to say nothing of the aerobic value. Well... we finally made it to the top.The breeze felt awesome.

I had fun taking pictures of the girls and watching them clown around. Looks dangerous don't it? Look at the upper right hand corner of the photo!!!

It takes nerves of steel to look over the steep side of the mountain directly above the memorial carving. No fear Kaitlyn. This photo made her mother brake into a sweat.

Wish I could jump like this!!! We had a great time.

This is me and Kaitlyn at sunset. If you look real close you can see Atlanta just behind Kaitlyn's arm.

Love You All!!!

Impact Atlanta

Yesterday was really a great day. Whirlwind Missions in partnership with First Baptist Atlanta sponsored the annual Impact Atlanta outreach event 2008. This is their seventh year. It gets better every year. Derrick Posten (pictured) and Tim Cummins where partner for this project. They did a terrific job!

Several teams moved out a ton of supplies which included food, evangelistic materials, art supplies, and big hearts ready to share Jesus.

My partner Tim Cummins and I visited several apartment communities to help with groups. We worked to get kids and adults headed to the fiestas!!

We really enjoy working with families. We especially like the children...they always seem to have such a great time!

This is my good friend Gregg. He is a staff member at FBA and a class mate of mine. His family has been one of our biggest supporters. We had 18 of 26 groups report that over 70 people accepted Christ.

Love You All!!

Good to See Rain Today...Fields of Faith

I sure was glad to see rain today. It was the first time it had rained in several weeks and I am praising the Lord for it. It's been great to have the beautiful fall weather, but it sure don't do anything for drought relief.

Today I worked on administrative stuff and my new web site. I think I'm zoning in on completing the home page. If you would like to check it out you can go to http://www.thetablemissions.org/.

Tonight I attended the Fields of Faith event at Parkview High school This is a Fellowship of Christian Athletes sponsored event. It's good for missionaries like me to show up at these events to keep in touch with the community and to also meet people.

The student leadership were having fun with the people coming into the event. Sort of a take on on a Centrifuge entrance.One of the students from the Mountain FBC youth group gave his personal testimony. He did an outstanding job.The kids came out of the stands to hear a message from a former student and college athlete.

At the end many students accepted Christ. Its sometimes hard to believe that there can be this many lost people at a Christian event, but when people are made aware of their sinful nature ...it don't surprise me.

I also had a conversation with my good friend Bill Gifford. He is the head of FCA in Gwinnett County. Its amazing how God works sometimes. I was discussing a point with Cornelia this morning that someone needed to come in and explore the possibility of starting a rec league soccer association in the Latino communities. As I was talking to Bill one of his partners came up and overheard our conversation. Turns out the he used to be a missionary to Brazil and he has a real passion for the trying to reach Latinos through soccer. Wow what a Jesus thing. I'm supposed to call Bill tomorrow and schedule a time to get together to talk about the possibilities. In the mean time I am going to do some exploratory work in advance of our meeting. Pray for a good result.

Love You All!

A Day of Prayer!

Spent the biggest part of the morning in study of the Word and prayer. Seeking God's guidance for the future and provision of resources needed to run our ministry. God is good and faithful, and just and he knows what we need when we need it.I have been studying the book of Romans. It's one of my favorite Epistles in the New Testament. Verse 10: 11b says, "Anyone who trusts in Him will never be put to shame.' As defenders we must learn to abide in the word and rejoice in this fact...we will never be put to shame. In other words the things we do in the name of Jesus well only serve to honor God. Wow! That's good stuff

I worked the rest of the day on our new web site. Cornelia and I had originally decided not to do one, but we found a free website page that works for us so we are going-for-it. I will give you the web address as soon as we get it up and running.

Even though we are exclusively NAMB missionaries and work with our partner Tim Cummins of Whirlwind Missions...for identity sake we are calling it The Table Missions. The biblical base for the name comes for the parable of Jesus in the book of Luke Chapter 15:12-23...The Great Banquet.

Then Jesus said to his host, "When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous." The Parable of the Great Banquet When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, "Blessed is the man who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God." Jesus replied: "A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, 'Come, for everything is now ready.' "But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, 'I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.' "Another said, 'I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I'm on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.' "Still another said, 'I just got married, so I can't come.' "The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.' 'Sir,' the servant said, 'what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.' "Then the master told his servant, 'Go out to the roads and country lanes and make them come in, so that my house will be full. I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.' "

Stay tuned for further information.

Love you all!

CIA part 2

Yesterday at VN our mission group was a no show. About thirty kids had came with their parents and were excited about the fiesta!!! But as time passed no one came and we began to wonder WHY? I had left my cell phone at home so I had no way of calling any to see why. We were all kind of sad. Sampson my dog was sad too.

So to pass the time we decided to play games with the kids (the parents bugged out and went back home). One of the kids had a wiffle ball kit left over from the summer program. He said ...do you want me to go get it? I said yes go get it.

So we played unorganized baseball for a while and then some soccer. Cornelia decided to go back home to retrieve my cell phone and when she came back she told me the group was not coming. Bummer!!! No one was smiling...SOOO we decided to just hang out with our kids and be open to anything they wanted to do. Of course the older boys decided to play hardcore soccer while the younger kids wanted to take pictures with my camera. Here are some of the photos we took.Then all sat down on the ground and we told them about Jesus and how much he loves them. We talked for a good thirty minutes!! It was truly a blessing.

This is Carlos...he was the only one that was happy because he had survived a Bermuda bike ride (see the t-shirt). I doubt seriously that he has been anywhere near Bermuda in his life time.

We got the word from our partner Tim Cummins that we had to go to Huntington Ridge to another block party.

This made Kaitlyn happy because she wanted to drive on Jimmy Carter Blvd.

Her mom was not so happy. A little buttering up never hurts.

We left there met up with our other partners Tim and Kathy Palmer (Kathy is pictured on the right above).

We got there just in time to see a karate exhibition. Everybody was braking boards in the name of Jesus. Kidding aside, the kids really loved the board breaking. CIA TV even got in on the act.

At the end they had a terrific and blessed gospel presentation that was performed in English and Spanish. Followed by an invitation to accept Christ and a closing prayer.

It was a great day in the name of Jesus.

We love you all!

Compassion in Action

Saturday morning was such a beautiful fall morning. Cornelia and I headed out to Lawrenceville to 12 Stone Church to participated in CIA weekend. Our partner and mentor Tim Cummins was instrumental in providing several project locations in Lawrencevillle. We spent our morning visiting around loving the volunteers and people of three different apartment complexes

These are just a few of the 12 Stone people that gave their time and heart to make this event possible. You could see the love of Chris in them as they ministered to the people. Even Spider Man got on the act!!!!

In case you didn't know...a block party is a tremendous and low risk way to share the Gospel through plain old fashioned love for people. Many of the churches we work with sponsor these events several times each year.

Today we will be hosting a group from Perimeter Church at Villas Nueve. We are soooo excited that our primary site, as well as, other sites in our area will be apart of CIA weekend. I will post more pictures later today. It's time t get ready to do one of my favorite things and that is WORSHIP!

Corrections and Other Stuff

For those of you who might not know one of the things we love to do most is work with kids. Cornelia's passion is preschool aged kids and mine is youth kids. It's so rewarding to impact lives at such a critical age.



Since leaving Calvary Baptist Church, I have been helping my good friend Richard King with his youth group on Wednesday nights. The number of kids coming to MPFBC Youth has really increased this year. I estimated the attendance to be around 75 last night. It's really good for me to continue to work with youth as it was my passion for almost 20 years. Correction still is a passion of mine!!

Yesterday I was back over at Villas Nueva talking with Michelle the manager about upcoming plans for our work there. We were blessed to find out that we might have an intern coming to work with us. If it works out we will be able to do our homework help program after all. For safety and other reasons we are mandated to have two people while working with children. One can never be too careful these days if you know what I mean.



I had mentioned to you previously about CIA weekend and church groups coming to do a block party for us this Saturday. That information was wrong. The day they are coming is actually this Sunday for 1:30 to 4:30 pm. Sorry for the mis-communication. Also we were trying to nail down a date for a Christmas party for the kids.



Finally it was good to know that Tim Cummins finally got GAS yesterday! NOT all of us can afford to run premium in our cars. God is good...AMEN?

We love you all!