Leave for Tobago Tomorrow

I am off for a four-day Missions Conference. I will be preaching eight times in four days. Please pray for me. There will be 50-100 pastors from all the Caribbean Islands coming to make plans for sending out missionaries from the Caribbean all over the world. What exciting days! Glory!

My Head Is Still Spinning

Wow. What a week and it is only Tuesday. Pastor Kelly Lacy phoned me Friday from Elizabeth City, North Carolina saying that he had won the bid on 500 school desks at a school auction and that I needed to come get them immediately. I send Bro. Phil Robinson of National Disaster Relief out of Jacksonville with his semi rig to North Carolina. Bro. Lacy told me there was no need for me to drive all the way up to North Carolina to help them load the truck, that he would handle it himself. And handle it he did. He had six to eight guys helping him and they had 400 desks loaded on the semi and Bro. Phil was on his way back to Florida in a little over an hour. That is some serious packing.

Pastor Kelly Lacy kept 100 desks with him in North Carolina and is going to deliver them to the Indian Reservation in Lumberton. Glory. What a pastor and what a vision. Pastor Lacy, thank you so much and thank you also for paying for the desks at the auction.

So yesterday (Monday), since I did not have to drive to North Carolina, Vance, Gary, Ernie, and I headed to Georgia at 6:00 a.m., loaded 75 computers, 100 monitors, and some printers into the horse trailer, and still arrived back home in Florida by 5:00 p.m.

Today, we four men met at the warehouse to unload the horse trailer. No more than thirty minutes after we finished unloading all the computers, Bro. Phil arrived from North Carolina and we then unloaded all the school desks. Pastor Lacy and his crew had really packed them in there. School desks must be loaded and unloaded one by one. There is no way to stack desks neatly on pallets. 400 desks are a lot of desks. By the time we finished unloading both vehicles, we were no longer perspiring, we were flat-out sweating. We finished around 1:00 p.m.

At 1:30, Pastor Franco Ferelon of Tampa Gospel Kingdom came to the warehouse to see about getting computers and desks for Haiti. Now isn't that just like God. And what timing. Now get this. Tomorrow we are going to load 165 desks that we just got today and take them to Bro. Ferelon’s church where he has a container ready to ship everything to Haiti. He is also getting 55 computers, 5 TVs, 20 computer desks, 2 typewriters, 2 filing cabinets, 20 inkjet printers and 20 laser printers. Glory. The warehouse is almost empty again. Isn't God good?

If all that is not enough to make your head spin, at about 2:15 p.m., I received a phone call requesting 100 computers for Mexico. At least I have been given one month to get this order ready.

Lord, I need more funds and more computers.
I want to thank each of you for your generosity in helping make all of this possible, and for making my head spin.

Ways to Donate

Since I sent out the email about the transportation charges to Georgia and North Carolina, I have received several emails and phone calls about how to donate. There are lots of ways. Thank you in advance for your generosity. The Lord willing, Vance and I will be headed to Georgia early Monday morning to begin getting computers from the second school district. Glory!

Five Ways To Donate

1. If you do not need tax credit, you can make out your check to Dr. Rodney White and send it to my PO Box. I report all ministry-related income to the IRS for tax purposes
Dr. Rodney WhitePO Box 6451Lakeland, Florida 33807
2. If you need tax credit, there are three ways:

A. Make your check out to the Men's Ministries of the Penn Florida District
and on the “For” Line put “Transportation Charges” and send your check to:

Men's Ministry
Penn Florida District Council
PO Box 24687
Lakeland, Florida 33802

B. Make your check out to Alabama District Counsel and on the “For” line put “Missionary Rodney White” and send your check to:

Alabama District Council
PO Box 235014
Montgomery, Alabama 36123

C. Make out your check to Bartow First Assembly of God and on the “For” line, put “Missions.” Then send the check to my PO Box and I will take it by the church office and they will send you an official receipt for tax purposes. This is my home church and I am one of the missionaries they support. So they will put your funds in the church Missions Account and write me a check from the church.Dr. Rodney WhitePO Box 6451Lakeland, Florida 33807
3. If you need Assemblies of God World Missions Credit, there are three ways you can donate:

A. Make your check out to the Men's Ministries of the Penn Florida District
and on the “For” Line put “Transportation Charges” and send your check to:

Men's Ministry
Penn Florida District Council
PO Box 24687
Lakeland, Florida 33802

B. Make your check out to Alabama District Counsel and on the “For” line put “Missionary Rodney White” and send your check to:

Alabama District Council
PO Box 235014
Montgomery, Alabama 36123

C. Make out your check to “Assemblies of God World Missions” (AGWM) and on the “For” line, put my account number – “For Dr. Rodney White – 217049” and send your check to:Assemblies of God World Missions1445 Boonville AvenueSpringfield, Missouri 65802

Container for Honduras

Glory! We did it. We really did it. The 40 foot container for Missionary Randy Herring arrived at 10:00 this morning and by 1:00 we had it totally loaded. What a job. There were five of us working; Vance Street, William Walker, Orton Queen, Dr. Johnny Strickland, and me. We did not take time for a bathroom break or even to get a drink of water because we did not know if we could really load all the stuff in the allotted three hours. But we did it. I want you to know that packing a 40 foot container is no small task. If you have ever packed a U-Haul truck or trailer, you know how you try to put things in every available space. Imagine doing that in a 40 foot container which is seven feet tall inside. But we packed it to the very back doors. As we put in the last items I told the guys I pity the person trying to unload it. You may want to pray for Missionary Randy Herring. That is going to be his task. Also pray that everything goes smoothly through customs.

A Day to Make Your Head Spin

I do not think more could have been crammed into this day. I left for Tampa at 8:00 a.m. to help Dr. Johnny Strickland with Network of Promise give out 450 boxes of food to the elderly living in the Tampa Housing Authority apartments. It is always rewarding to be involved in helping those lovely people.

On the drive to Tampa, I received a phone call from Pastor Kelly Lacy from North Carolina saying that he was at a school auction where they had 500 desks and 150 computers. He thought he had a good chance of getting them. Isn't that fantastic? What a great friend.

Missionary Bill Strickland from Honduras told me last week that I was on the cutting edge of where missions is going. He said that people want to personally get involved in missions, actually getting dirty for God. This was exactly what Pastor Lacy was doing, attending an auction to get supplies for missionaries. Bill Strickland also said that missionaries are thrilled that people are sending them things they desperately need. What a day to be alive.

All this is on top of having to go to Valdosta to pick up 150 computers there. Now here is where you come in. I desperately need some help financially for all the transportation costs. A semi to Valdosta costs $800 but going to North Carolina is going to take $2300. Help! I am finding out it is very expensive to be involved in missions. At least God has given us a warehouse free of charge. Many compassion ministries have to pay up to $12,000 a month just for warehousing. Isn't God good!

On the way home from Tampa, I received another phone call from the shipper who is providing a 40 foot container for Missionary Randy Herring from Honduras saying that the container arrived in Tampa today, that they will unload it from 6:00 to 9:00 in the morning and will then bring the container over to the warehouse for us to load it. They give us three hours to put in everything. So I went back to the warehouse and worked until 8:30 tonight getting everything for the container put up on the loading deck so we can save time in the morning.

As I said, it was a day to make your head spin, but that's what it is all about. Thank you so much for you interest and help.

My Wife is Graduating

My wife and I will be leaving tomorrow morning for Springfield, Missouri where my wife will received her Doctorate of Ministry degree. Glory! It has been a long hard struggle, but she is finally finished. You may want to send your congratulations at gawhite@seuniversity.edu. I am so proud of her.